Mr. Adam Davis, High School Orchestra
Adam Davis is currently Director of Orchestras for Hudsonville Public Schools in Hudsonville, Michigan and has been teaching there since 2006. Prior to coming to Hudsonville, he was the Director of Orchestras for Byron Center Public Schools, Michigan, Director of Orchestras and Jazz Bands for Prospect High School, Mt. Prospect, Illinois, and Director of Orchestras, Jazz Studies, and Music Technology for Maine South High School, Park Ridge, Illinois.
During his nearly 30 years of teaching, Adam has had orchestras that have performed at the IMEA All-State Convention and Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic and jazz bands that have placed and won their classification at the prestigious Jazz in the Meadows Festival in Rolling Meadows, IL. He has also had articles on teaching jazz techniques to strings and using technology in the classroom published by The Instrumentalist and Music Educators Journal. Adam has also given clinics at the IMEA All-State Convention, Michigan Music Conference, and Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic.
Along with his music activities, Adam is a Google Product Expert for Google Docs Editor, Diamond Level, and Google Classroom as well as a Google Certified Educator and Trainer. He has been using Google Apps since before the beginning of time (at least that is what it seems like) and regularly helps others integrate technology into their teaching. Adam believes that using technology should not be a case of the “tail wagging the dog” but an enhancement of the curriculum and a means to work more efficiently.
Adam is the proud husband of his beautiful wife, Emily and the proud father of Sophia and Levi. When he is not teaching, Adam spends his time trying to keep up with his kids or unsuccessfully swinging a golf club.
Mrs. Sarah Lenhart, Riley MS and Baldwin MS Orchestra
Sarah Lenhart, Middle School Orchestra Director at Hudsonville Public Schools in Michigan,was previously a beginning strings teacher in Greenwich, Connecticut and Naperville, Illinois. She also taught high school orchestra in Livonia, MI and Brewster, New York.
A graduate of the University of Michigan and Western Connecticut University, she has presented numerous times at the National ASTA Conference and the Michigan Music Conference, was conductor of the Ann Arbor School of the Performing Arts Youth Orchestra, has guest conducted throughout Michigan, and has been the music director at the MASTA Strings Camp. Lenhart recently co-authored a book titled Sound Differentiation for Beginning String Orchestra published by Alfred Music.
Mrs. Lenhart loves living in Hudsonville now near her extended family and her children attend HPS. She thinks being an orchestra teacher is the best career in the world. She enjoys photography, gardening, and camping.
Mrs. Becky Bush, Baldwin MS Orchestra
Becky Bush, Middle School Orchestra Director and founder of the Hudsonville Public Schools Orchestra Program in Hudsonville, Michigan is co-author of Sound Differentiation for Beginning String Orchestra and author of a young orchestra piece, Arctic Crossing, both published by Alfred Music. She was Orchestra Director at Jenison Public Schools, String Acquisition Editor and Suzuki Strategist at Alfred Music Publishing, Adjunct Professor of Music Education at Grand Valley State University, and Adjunct Professor of Music Education at Calvin College and directed the St. Cecilia Music Center Sinfonia and Concert Youth Orchestras. A graduate with a Bachelor’s of Music Education from University of Michigan and a Masters of Education from Grand Valley State University, she has been Music Director at the Michigan ASTA String Camps and performs with the Signature String Quartet. She has presented multiple sessions at The Midwest Clinic, the National ASTA Conference, Ontario Music Educators’ Association Conference, Texas Music Educators Association Conference, New York State School Music Association Conference, other state music conventions and has been an active guest conductor throughout Michigan. Mrs. Bush lives in Hudsonville with her husband and four children who attend HPS. She loves working with middle school students, teaching orchestra, camping, hiking and Lake Michigan sunsets!