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Barbara Baker has begun her thirteenth year as the Director of Bands at McIntosh High School. The band program has grown over the years and currently consists of 210 students who are divided into four performing concert bands. The McIntosh Bands have a long history of superior performances in both concert and marching. The Spirit of McIntosh is the marching band and the largest organized cheering body for our school. The marching band has received superior ratings in all captions, won many class awards as well as a Grand Champion Honors over the years. The Band also had a very successful Southeastern Color Guard Circuit (SCGC) Winter Guard which over the years has consistently earned many class awards, class promotions and placed well at circuit championships. The McIntosh percussion section also has a long history of class placement awards with SCGC and also with the Percussive Arts National Competition which they won in 2002.
Ms. Baker is a member of the Georgia Music Educator's Association (GMEA), has been Organizing Chair Person for District Festival, District Solo and Ensemble, President of Delta Omicron, Honor Band Clinician, Marching Band Adjudicator, Concert Band Clinician and Spirit Camp Instructor. Ms. Baker has performed with the Cobb Wind Symphony at the CBDNA in 2002 and at the Mid-West Band and Orchestra Convention in December 2003. She has also performed in 2004 at the GMEA music conference and in 2007 with the Cobb Wind Symphony.
To contact Ms. Baker, you can send her an email at
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2010-08-02 | | | | Claire Womack is joining us this year as the new Assistant Band Director. Prior to this appointment, she resided in Lexington, KY where in the spring of 2010 she received a masters of clarinet performance from the University of Kentucky. While studying clarinet with Scott Wright at UK, she also took the opportunity to study oboe and oboe reed-making with Nancy Clauter and Liz Telling. Ms. Womack holds a bachelors degree in music education from Mercer University graduating summa cum laude. At Mercer, she studied clarinet with Monty Cole and conducting with Douglas Hill and Stanley Roberts.
Ms. Womack is a member of the Georgia Music Educators Association (GMEA), the International Clarinet Association (ICA), and Phi Kappa Phi honor fraternity. She has served throughout the Southeast as a clinician, educator, and adjudicator. She performed as a clarinetist with a number of orchestras including the Macon Symphony, the Ocmulgee Symphony, and the University of Kentucky Symphony, as well as playing regularly with ensembles at Mercer and UK. In addition, she marched a season with Spirit Drum and Bugle Corps.
An alumus of McIntosh High School, Ms. Womack is thrilled to begin her career in her hometown.
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