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Forest Lake High School Music Teachers
Every other year there is a Music Department trip offered to the high level and all junior and senior music personel. In 2014 the teachers attended a trip to New York with the students. They each led the students in a performance while there. They attended a Broadway show and had time to visit a college. There was the usual New York site seeing as well. A great time was had by all.
New York 2014
Hawaii 2016
In 2016 our teachers took on Hawaii with about 75 music students! The choir performed at Pearl Harbor's Battleship Missouri, and the band and orchestra each performed at the Polynesian Cultural Center. They went to a Luau, saw a great cultural show, visited the Dole Plantation and Maze, and took the kids snorkelling! There may have been an attempt at some surfing as well but only the luckiest students witnessed that feat! This was an amazing trip for our students in the heart of Oahu, Hawaii.
Barry Zumwalde
Band Teacher
Barry Zumwalde teaches instrumental music at Forest Lake Area High School and Southwest Junior High School in Forest Lake, Minnesota. He previously taught for nine years at North Branch Area High School. He holds a BM in Music Education and Trombone Performance from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and an MA in Music Education from the University of St. Thomas. Barry has served on the board of MMEA as Jazz Education Chair, and is a Past President of the Minnesota Band Directors Association, where he also served as Membership Chair. He has been a contributor to the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) Music Committee for several years and currently serves as Music Representative on the MSHSL Region 7AA Committee. He is presently the Secondary Music Department Chair for the Forest Lake Area Schools.
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John Guidry!
Vocal Music Teacher
Dave Livermore
Orchestra Teacher
More information on Mr Guidry will be added soon!
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Mr. Dave Livermore holds a degree in Music Education from Augustana College in Sioux Falls. During his years in college, he played Saxophone, Steel Drums, Acoustic, Electric and Bass guitar, and the Double Bass. He was also in collegiate choirs, musical theater and opera theater as well as being a singer/songwriter in coffee houses and playing in a rock band on the weekends. He performed his senior recital on Classical guitar and voice. After college he worked in the business sector in a music store before finding his place at Forest Lake High School in 1998. His life outside of school is very busy with his wife Laura (who also teaches at the high school), and their four young children. He is involved with scouts, church, performing on weekends, and building guitars in his woodshop at home.
Forest Lake Junior High Music Teachers
Mr. Matheson
Jake Matheson teaches instrumental music in the Forest Lake Area Schools. He teaches 7th & 8th grade bands at Southwest Junior High and elementary band at Columbus Elementary, Lino Lakes Elementary, and Wyoming Elementary. Mr. Matheson directs the Southwest Junior High Jazz Band, the Forest Lake Ranger Marching Band and is the assistant director of the Forest Lake Ranger Pep Band. Previously he has taught Kindergarten through 6th grade General Music and Choir at Wyoming Elementary and 9th grade band at Southwest.
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Mr. Matheson holds a Bachelor of Music degree in K-12 Instrumental and Vocal Music Education from the University of South Dakota. Mr. Matheson is a third generation graduate of Forest Lake Area High School!
Mr. Matheson founded and directs the Forest Lake Area Community Band, assists with the Forest Lake City Marching Band, and teaches all band instrument lessons for Forest Lake Area Community Education
Ms. Laqua
Maurya Laqua, Century Jr High Band Teacher, spent the first two decades of her life in Williston, ND, finding her way to Fargo-Moorhead as a college student. She studied at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, and is a proud Cobber! At Concordia she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, double majoring in music education and psychology while playing French Horn in The Concordia College Band and The Concordia College Orchestra. After graduation she made her way to the Twin Cities area filling a medical leave at Isanti Middle School and ultimately landing the fall of 1999 in the Forest Lake Area School District. Her entire career in Forest Lake has been teaching at the jr. high level, an age group she fell in love with as a Bible camp counselor. When she isn't teaching Ms. Laqua devotes her left over energy to the Forest Lake Girls Basketball Program as their "DOBO"-Director Of Basketball Operations-and is the volunteer music director and pianist for Youth Performing Arts (YPA). Ms. Laqua lives in Forest Lake with her old-man-cat, Sebastian, and Pug, Polly, but travels around the country and the world staying connected with friends, family and fun.