Rob Westerberg bio

 

       Rob Westerberg is Choral Director at York High School in York, Maine and Director of the Portland Community Chorus. Mr. Westerberg holds a B.M. in Music Education from Keene State College and M.M. in Choral Conducting from the University of Maine. He is past President of the Maine Music Educators Association, the Vermont Music Educators Association and the Vermont Choral Directors Association. He served as chairman for the Maine All State Music Festival in both 2005 and 2006 and has also served as manager for District, All State and Eastern Division Choirs. 

       In 2000, Westerberg was nationally recognized by the New Hampshire Music Educators Association as one of their “accomplished” Music Teachers. Since moving to Maine, he served the Maine Department of Education in the rewriting and revision of the Maine Learning Results for the Visual and Performing Arts and is co-founder of the Maine Arts Assessment Initiative. Among his recent honors, Westerberg was a recipient of the 2010 Keene State College Department of Music’s Distinguished Alumni Award, the inaugural Carol Trimble Award for Exemplary Service to Arts Education by the Maine Department of Education in 2011, and was named Maine ACDA’s Distinguished Choral Director for 2012. 

       At York, his choirs annually consist of one third of the student body and twice his YHS Chamber Singers have performed at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Dr. Dennis Cox. Mr. Westerberg has also conducted the Portland Symphony Orchestra's Magic Of Christmas Choir, guest conducted over fifty festival choirs throughout New England, and is a frequent speaker, advisor and clinician. He continues his tenure as Senior High Choral Director for MSYM; the University of Maine's Summer Youth Music program in Orono.