Dr. Kay R. Pace
Dr. Kay Pace has had a long and distinguished career as music educator, choral director, concert pianist, ethnomusicologist, composer, and workshop consultant. She retired in 2019 from Clayton County Schools (CCPS) as Lead Teacher for high school choral music and served as Head of choral music, piano and AP music theory at Stilwell Performing Arts School, Jonesboro, GA. Before CCPS, Dr. Pace held university posts at Southern Illinois (Carbondale), Alabama State (Montgomery), Morgan State (Maryland), and Clark Atlanta (Georgia).
Highly experienced, she is uniquely equipped to serve in the following capacities:
- Master choral conductor, director, clinician available for guest conducting for Honor choruses—college, high school, middle school, elementary—on national, state, local levels.
- Motivational speaker for music advocacy events, Music in our Schools Month activities, awards programs.
- Master clinician specializing in ethno-cultural music—particularly African American music art-forms: spirituals and other folk songs, Gospel, jazz.
- Master consultant in AP Music Theory improving student test scores.
- Offer customizable K-12 arts-integrated lessons, workshops, assemblies and residencies.
- Master concert pianists/accompanist available for performances, collaborative accompanying, piano workshops, piano coaching, and contest adjudication.
- Customized professional development for whole-school arts integration strategies.
- Professional development/In-Service for educators and schools seeking STEAM designation.
- Professional development for educators and schools on how to build and strengthen school-based choral programs from the bottom up.
- Professional development to assist teachers with burnout and strategies for improving challenging programs.
- Professional development for choral directors preparing for LGPE (repertoire selection, understanding the process), Allstate, Solo & Ensemble, Reading Chorus, GHP auditions.
- Professional development for concert preparation, music selection, strategies for success.
- Professional development on teaching choral students to sight-sing with little background.
- Master song writing and score arrangement training customized for diverse school settings.