Patrick Barrett-Head Director  

Mr. Patrick Barrett is excited to start teaching orchestra at Hilliard Davidson High School. His responsibilities include conducting the four orchestras at Davidson High School and assisting Mrs. Faulkner at Weaver Middle School and Ms. Bartholic at Tharp Sixth Grade School. He is looking forward to coming back to the district where he student taught. Mr. Barrett previously taught orchestra in the Perrysburg School District for five years, where his junior high ensemble performed at the OMEA Professional Development Conference in Cleveland in 2015. He was also a conductor of the Toledo Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2015-2018, where he music directed the Symphonic Orchestra and Concert Strings. Concert Strings performed at the OMEA Professional Development Conference in Columbus in February. Mr. Barrett has served as guest conductor and clinician for the OMEA District 14 Junior High Honors Orchestra, the All-County Middle School Orchestra Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, and the University of Toledo Symphony Orchestra. He was held the position of music director of the Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra for the 2017-2018 season. Mr. Barrett is a graduate of The Ohio State University with degrees in music education and flute performance. 

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Ginny Faulkner-Asst. Director: Chamber A, Chamber B, & Symphony

 

As Orchestra Director at Weaver Middle School and Assistant Director at Davidson High School, Ginny Faulkner is currently in her sixteenth year of teaching strings at the Hilliard City Schools. She teaches grades six through twelve in three different schools in the district.  Previously she taught for three years in the Delaware City Schools.  She has served as the manager for the Columbus Symphony Cadet Orchestra and assistant for the Columbus Children's Community Orchestra.  In addition, she has taught for the Worthington Chamber Music Connection and for the Suzuki Music center of Central Ohio. She had been a director and counselor for the OOSTA Middle school Orchestra Camp. In 2011, Mrs. Faulkner won the OOSTA Public School Teacher of the Year award.  In addition, she is past Secretary of OOSTA. A violinist and pianist, Mrs. Faulkner has performed with the central Ohio Symphony Orchestra and the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. She has both her Bachelors and Masters degrees from The Ohio State University.
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Caitlin Bartholic-Asst. Director: Chamber B and Concert


 

Caitlin Bartholic is a 2003 graduate of Davidson High School and an 2007 Graduate of Bowling Green State University. She received her Masters Degree from Ohio State in the Summer of 2013 . While at Bowling Green, Miss Bartholic was a music education major with a specialty in strings. She was a regular studio piano accompanist for several of the performance studios at BGSU. Her major instrument is the violin. She has studied violin with Dr. Robert Gillespie, and Dr. Penny Kruse. Miss Bartholic's duties in the Hilliard City Schools includes directing the orchestra programs at Tharp Sixth Grade School and assisting at Weaver Middle School and Davidson High School with their orchestras.
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