About us

About the Board

Board offices are elected volunteers from the membership.  Nominations are sent in the spring or summer of every year for open positions.  The board meets about once every other month to vote on workshop seasons, the budget, and more.

Every year we hold an election for the president elect.  That member serves as the president elect for one year.  Subsequently that member becomes the president and then the past president (as a non-voting member of the board), each for one year, or a total of three years.

MUSIK elects a new treasurer in odd calendar years and a new secretary in even calendar years, both for a two year term.

The board has two member at large positions, each held for two years.  One is elected every calendar year.

President
(2022-2024)


Bethany Pasierb,

Montgomery County Public Schools

Bethany Pasierb is an elementary general music/chorus teacher for Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, where she has been teaching since 2017. Bethany is an enthusiastic educator who is dedicated to teaching music through creative and engaging lessons. She received her Bachelor's in Music Education & Vocal Performance from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, her Master's of Education in Kodály from the American Kodály Institute at Loyola University Maryland, and is currently pursuing her National Board Certification. Additionally, she studied opera at the Accademia Vocale Lorenzo Malfatti in Lucca, Italy. Bethany also teaches private voice and piano lessons and has presented at multiple workshops for the Maryland United Specialists in Kodály (MUSIK). Bethany has been serving as President of MUSIK since 2022. 

President Elect

(2023-2024)


Amy Hughes, 

Montgomery County Public Schools

Amy Hughes graduated from West Chester University of Pennsylvania with a B.M. in Music Education with a concentration in percussion. In Summer 2019, she completed her Masters of Education in Kodály Music Education at Loyola University Maryland and obtained all three levels of Kodály certification. She has taught Elementary General and Choral Music in Montgomery County since 2012, specializing in grades K-2 since 2015. Amy presented Using Your Music for All it is Worth: in the Primary Grades at a Maryland United Specialists in Kodály workshop and at the Maryland Music Educators Association Fall Conference. She has performed percussion with Strathmore Children's Chorus and Montgomery County Southeast Honors Chorus. Amy has been the Treasurer of the Maryland United Specialists in Kodály chapter since 2020. .

Treasurer
(2023-2025)


Amy Hughes,
Montgomery County Public Schools

Amy Hughes graduated from West Chester University of Pennsylvania with a B.M. in Music Education with a concentration in percussion. In Summer 2019, she completed her Masters of Education in Kodály Music Education at Loyola University Maryland and obtained all three levels of Kodály certification. She has taught Elementary General and Choral Music in Montgomery County since 2012, specializing in grades K-2 since 2015. Amy presented Using Your Music for All it is Worth: in the Primary Grades at a Maryland United Specialists in Kodály workshop and at the Maryland Music Educators Association Fall Conference. She has performed percussion with Strathmore Children's Chorus and Montgomery County Southeast Honors Chorus. Amy has been the Treasurer of the Maryland United Specialists in Kodály chapter since 2020. 

Secretary
(2023-2024)


Emily Weiser, 

Montgomery County Public Schools

Emily Weiser, Secretary, is a General Music Teacher at Dr. Sally K. Ride Elementary School in Germantown, MD, as well as Choral Director for Fourth and Fifth Grade Choruses. She received a Bachelor’s in Music Education from the University of Maryland, College Park. She completed all Kodály levels and earned a Master’s in Kodály Music Education from the American Kodály Institute at Loyola University Maryland. Emily served as Musical and Artistic Director at the Mandell Jewish Community Center Theater Camp, a day camp for Grades 3-9 located in West Hartford, CT, from 2015 through 2019. Emily directs a musical theater club for Fourth and Fifth Grade students, teaches private piano lessons, and works as an accompanist in Montgomery and Howard Counties, most recently as the piano accompanist for Northwest Montgomery County Honors Chorus.

Member at Large
(2023-2025)


Molly Park, 

Howard County Public Schools

Molly Park is an elementary (K-5) vocal and general music educator and a co-director of Howard County Children’s Chorus in Howard County Public School System, Maryland. Park currently serves as an Eastern Division representative of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Council for General Music and as a member at large of Maryland United Specialist in Kodály (MUSIK). Certified in Kodály (all levels), Orff (level II), and Dalcroze (level I), Park has led a graduate general music methods seminar as an adjunct faculty at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and taught the Peabody Children’s Chorus Prep classes. She has published lessons for Hal Leonard LLC’s Essential Elements Music Class and presented at professional development workshops for music educators for Howard County Public School System and Maryland United Specialists in Kodály.

Park received her Master of Music in Voice degree from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and her Master of Education degree in Kodály Music Education from Loyola University Maryland. She holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Texas at Austin. Park is devoted to enabling students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential through her culturally responsive repertoire, creative performances, musical literacy, and social-emotional learning. The best way to reach her is by email: molly_park@hcpss.org.

Member at Large 

Currently Vacant

View our chapter bylaws below. This is the document that governs our organization. All updates to the bylaws are viewed and voted on by the general membership of MUSIK.

MUSIK Bylaws 2019 (Current)