Meet Ms. Anne Pape, Conductor
of the
HSO starting Fall 2018
Ms. Pape has been the Orchestra Director at Edgewood High School and Deerfield Elementary School in Harford County, MD for the past sixteen years. In addition to teaching orchestra, she is also the Director of the Edgewood High Guitar Ensemble. Her guitar ensemble has presented at the Maryland Music Educators Association Conference and she was honored as the Edgewood High School “Everyday Hero” at the Greater Excellence in Education Foundation Gala in 2012. Ms. Pape holds a Bachelors of Music in Music Education from Shenandoah University where she studied violin under Olivia Hajioff and Marc Ramirez. She completed her Masters of Arts Administration from Goucher College in 2006. Ms. Pape holds a National Board Certification in music. In addition to her work with Harford County Public Schools, Mrs. Pape maintains a busy private studio of violin and viola students. She is a strings specialist, music theory instructor, and assistant camp director for “Summer Strings” the HYO summer music camp. She can be heard performing with the Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra in Bel Air, as well as at a variety of venues throughout Maryland, including many times at the Southern Maryland Celtic Festival. She can also been seen in a documentary filmed for Maryland Public Television, War of 1812 on the Chesapeake: Home of the Brave, which originally aired in June of 2012.