Her educational background includes a B.S. from Ithaca College, and an M.A. in Music Education from Columbia University in New York, where she studied piano with Robert Pace. Ms. Day has been a string educator in Colorado for over 25 years, at all levels, and is presently teaching at Eagle Ridge Elementary in Douglas County. Her award winning groups have been chosen to perform at state and national conventions seven times. In 2000, she received the "Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award" from the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) of Colorado. Original compositions by Ms. Day have been performed at conferences for MENC, CMEA, the Midwest Band/Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, and numerous local and national honor orchestras, festivals, contests, and summer music camps. In 1997, she won the ASTA sponsored composition contest for her string bass duet, "Bass-ic Blues for Two". The piece was recorded by Gary Karr and premiered at the Eastman School of Music String Symposium in 1999. Most recently, Ms. Day was the winner of the 2006 Texas Orchestra Directors Association (TODA) Composition Contest for her piece "Tango d'Amour". Her works are being published by Grand Mesa Music Publishers and Alfred Music Publishers. She is a member of MENC, CMEA, ASTA, the String Industry Council of ASTA, ASCAP, and is in the 2006-7 Who's Who of American Women" and 2007 "Who's Who in the World".
