Jennifer

Jennifer Franz-Melady was the head choir director at Magnolia High School for 17 years. Her choirs received consistent UIL sweepstakes. She has had choirs participate in the American Classic Madrigal Festival in Dallas and San Antonio. She also had choirs perform at Southwest ACDA. Her Chorale was the co- winner of the American Classic Madrigal Festival in Dallas, 2022, and they also performed at the 2022 TMEA Convention in San Antonio as an honor choir. Her Chorale was The Foundation for Music Education national recording contest winner for 2017 and 2018. She has taught all grade levels from elementary music through supervising student teachers at Ohio State University. Jennifer holds a piano performance degree from The Eastman School of Music and a Masters in Secondary Choral Music Education from Ohio State University. She studied piano with Dr. Paul Vellucci at SMU and with Brooks Smith, Eugene List and Cecile Genhart at Eastman. She studied conducting with Maurice Casey, Jim Gallagher, William Weinhert and Mike Ware. She has been the accompanist for the Region 9 TMEA choirs and was accompanist for the TMEA All-State Women’s choir for 2016, 2017 and 2023. She accompanied the Small School TMEA All-State Mixed choir in 2020. She is an active choral clinician in the Houston area and taught for 38 years. She is recently retired from education. She is a member of TMEA and ACDA.