About
The Atholton Elementary School Strings program provides a performance-based curriculum for advanced-level learners, focusing on developing expressive and artistic musical experiences through student-driven work. It is important to note that we will not merely be playing instruments in this course but instead learning the language of music through performance. As such, a significant portion of the work in this course will be devoted to refining performance skills, increasing the ability to read new music at sight, and exploring what it means to be an all-encompassing musician.
Mr. Eric Piccirelli
Mr. Piccirelli is a product of the Howard County Public School System, having gone to Forest Ridge ES, Patuxent Valley MS, and Hammond HS. He received his BA in Music from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and his MA in Education Technology from George Washington University. He is currently pursuing postgraduate work in education at Towson University and is a National Board Certified Teacher candidate.
Mr. Piccirelli spent the first five years of his career teaching elementary strings with Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia and working with the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras. He then spent the next two years overseas teaching Orchestra at American international schools in London and South Korea.
Mr. Piccirelli lives in Baltimore with his wife, son, and cat and is happily continuing his career in Howard County. He is teaching at Atholton ES and Cradlerock ES.