Meet Mrs. Melody Easter-Clutter

 

Melody Easter-Clutter has been teaching vocal music for the last 29 years. She is currently the choral director at Indianola High School where she directs Lyric Choir, Choraliers, Flip Side Show Choir and is the musical director and the director of musical theater.  Before teaching at Indianola High School, she was the choral director for Indianola Middle School in Iowa where there are over 400, 7th and 8th students involved in choral activities, directed two show choirs, “STOMP” percussive boy’s groups, and girls musical theater small groups.. Melody has extensive teaching experience at the middle school level, where she was awarded the Teacher’s Golden Apple Award by Allied Insurance and Iowa’s News Channel 13.  She has been the guest conductor at many choral festivals and honor choir festival.  She has also  judged large and small group contests for the Iowa High School Music Association.

 

Melody is a curriculum writer for Alfred Music, which is the world’s largest educational music publisher.  She has published two music teachers’ curriculum: “Ready, Set, Rhythm” which is a movement and rhythmic reading method and “Class Room Playlist” which is creative listening lesson activities which invites the student to experience, analyze, and reflect on a array of musical genres.   This past year Melody was privilege to teach with Michael Spresser of Alfred Publishing at NAFME National Convention at Nashville, Iowa Music Educators Association conference and Iowa Choral Director Summer Symposium.  Melody is also the South Central Iowa Choral Director’s Association chair.   

 

Prior to Indianola, Melody had an after school music program called “Stirring the Gift Music Studio” where she developed a music curriculum for home school students and traveled the country speaking at conventions about music. She has taught in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona, Des Moines and Winterset High School in Iowa.  Melody received her Bachelor of Music Education from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Melody has taken graduate courses at Arizona State University and University of Northern Iowa in music education.  She is married to her high school sweetheart Jeff and a proud mother of five: Angelica, Morgan, Jocelyn, Gabrielle, and Elijah.