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Haslett Middle School

Music | Valla, Samara

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Samara Valla

Email: vallasa@haslett.k12.mi.us
Phone: 517 339 8233
Degrees and Certifications:
BME Music Education MSU
MA Music Education MSU

I began my teaching career here in Haslett as Erich Wangeman's student teacher, and have been the Haslett Middle School choir director since the fall of 2000. I am responsible for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade choir at the middle school, and Treble choir at the high school. My students regularly receive the highest ratings at both District and State Choir Festivals. I also direct the middle school musicals and co-direct the high school musicals. 
As a soloist, I have performed both internationally and locally. She has toured Europe and the Midwest with various choirs and have participated in community theater in New York in such musicals as Anything Goes, Barnum, Bells are Ringing, Guys and Dolls, Into the Woods, Leader of the Pack, and Fiddler on the Roof.
Previously, I was a Community Music School Instructor of early childhood music classes and the coach for the Ladies First A Capella Ensemble at Michigan State University. I currently reside in East Lansing, Michigan. I am married to Justin, director of orchestras at Okemos High School, and have three daughters, Myah, Julia and Lara.