Melissa Meyers

 

• Director of 5th and High School Orchestras

• Founder and Director of GOTAK Celtic Ensemble

• Grand Haven Area Public Schools K-12 Music Department Chair

 

Melissa Meyers is originally from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where she was introduced to playing the cello. She later moved to Ludington, participating in the Ludington High School Orchestra and West Shore Youth Symphony as well as several vocal ensembles. Melissa attended and performed music at Western Michigan University, West Shore Community College and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from Grand
Valley State University where she was the recipient of the Margaret F. Ward Music Scholarship. She studied voice under Linda Dykstra and cello with Stacy Bosman and Alicia Eppinga. Mrs. Meyers is the director of orchestras at Grand Haven High School and has had the privilege of teaching there since the fall of 2003. She has taught orchestra at all grade levels and is the founder of the middle school fiddling program and GOTAK, the high school’s after school alternative string group. Under her leadership, the program grew from one to three high school orchestras, Concert, Symphony and Chamber. Melissa is an active MSBOA and ASTA member. In addition, Mrs. Meyers is a Michigan State Band and Orchestra Association adjudicator for solo and ensemble festivals and has also guest conducted for various groups including the Shoreline Community Orchestra, District X Honors Middle School Orchestra, MSBOA Fall String Clinics and various other orchestras in the state. She was the Orchestra Teacher of the Year for MSBOA District 7 in 2020. Her High School groups have consistently earned first division ratings in District and State Festivals. Currently, she teaches 5th grade orchestra, the high school’s Concert, Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, GOTAK and serves as the district’s K-12 Music Department Chair. In 2013, Melissa received the opportunity to conduct the GHHS orchestras in Carnegie Hall. She has led tours and conducted the orchestras in Italy and Austria (2016), Ireland (2019), Austria and Czech Republic (2022) as well as Walt Disney World (2005, 2008). She resides in Grand Haven with her husband Daniel Meyers and three daughters: Danielle, Ariana and Elaina. They enjoy spending family time at their cottage up north.

 

Phone: 616-850-6153
Email: meyersm@ghaps.org