Shelby Montgomery is the Orchestra Director at George Jenkins HS and Lakeland Highlands Middle School. Shelby is a proud graduate of The Florida State University, where she completed both her BME and MME. While at FSU, Ms. Montgomery studied abroad in London, where she studied music education. This trip also included many fabulous sights, musicals, and a several trips to the BBC Proms!
Ms. Montgomery is an avid traveler and enjoys visiting new places. She has traveled to 36 states and hopes to one day make it to all 50. Most recently, she traveled to Madrid, Spain.
Ms. Montgomery served as the Polk County All-County Orchestra coordinator from 2016-2020. In an effort to include more popular music genres into the general strings curriculum and to expand student repertoire of playing styles, she created Rockestra at GJHS in 2016. She enjoys presenting at State and National Conferences about Rockestra. Ms. Montgomery has been privileged to present about Rockestra at FMEA, ASTA, TMEA and NAfME conferences. |
Outside of the classroom, Ms. Montgomery can often be found performing in a pit orchestra. She has been involved in numerous productions at Lakeland Community Theater, Theater Winter Haven, and Florida Southern College. Ms. Montgomery enjoys performing with various other regional theaters throughout Central Florida.
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