The 91Â鶹ӳ» Summer Music Festival welcomes as its new associate director, stepping in to fill the shoes of Virginia Barron, who will stay on to take care of our children's programming.
Kroth is currently an instructor of clarinet at Michigan State University. She earned her Bachelor of Music from Ithaca College and her Master of Music from the Eastman School of Music. She has been a member of the Sioux City Symphony as well as a guest performer with the Dakota Wind Quintet, the South Dakota Symphony, and the Lansing Symphony Orchestra.
She is the founding director of the New Horizons Adult Beginning Band, one of Michigan State's adult community ensembles.
Her music education career spans nearly 40 years as a teacher in public schools in New York, South Dakota and Colorado, plus running a private clarinet studio and teaching as an adjunct professor at two colleges, before she retired in 2023 as a middle school band director in East Lansing, Mich.
She has been a member of the SMF family for years as her husband, Michael Kroth, is a member of the SMF Faculty on bassoon.