Lindra White Moerdyk received the Bachelors of Music Education from Drake University, and Masters of Music from The University of Michigan.

From 1963-1973 Ms. Moerdyk was a bassoonist in the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Kalamazoo Woodwind Quintet. Ms. Moerdyk taught instrumental music in the Kalamazoo Public Schools from 1962-1967, and at Proctor Elementary in Vermont from 1984-86.

From 1977 to 1993 she was bassoonist and contrabassoonist with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. From 1992-1995 Ms. Moerdyk taught therapeutic music for kids with special needs at the Vermont Achievement Center.

Active outside of music, Ms. Moerdyk has also had a career in human services, as the head of parent education for the Rutland County Parent Child Center from 1987-1990, as a leader of parent education courses in many locations in the Rutland region between 1987 and the present, and as the Rutland County Regional Coordinator for Prevent Child Abuse-Vermont in Montpelier from 1996-1999.

Presently - besides teaching Applied Bassoon at Castleton State College - she is the Music Director for the Shrewsbury Chamber Music Society and their “Summer Music Week”, and also teaches general music for Fair Haven Graded School, as well as maintains a studio of private bassoon students.

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