Joli Brooks began playing the violin as a sixth grader in the public schools of Sanford, N.C. Ms. Brooks studied violin at the Duke String School with Dorothy Kitchen, and with Dr. Rodney Schmidt at East Carolina University. There, she earned her degree in Music Education, and in 2003 also earned a Master of School Administration. She has taught orchestra in Lee, Harnett, and Onslow County school systems, and has been named to Who's Who in America once and to Who's Who Among America's Teachers four times. Ms. Brooks has served as a clinician and adjudicator in North Carolina and Virginia, and has been host and chair of various state, regional and local activities for school orchestras. She is the former concertmaster of both the Lee County Community Orchestra and the Crystal Coast Community Orchestra, and continues to perform professionally with the Crystal Strings Quartet. Ms. Brooks is National Board Certified in the area of Early Adolescent through Young Adulthood Music, and worked part-time for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards 2004-2008. Her school orchestras consistently earn Superior ratings at state orchestra and small ensemble festivals, and many of her students each year earn music awards and scholarships. Today, Ms. Brooks is the Director of Orchestras at Jacksonville High School, where she also teaches Advanced Placement Music Theory and Music Appreciation. She is a student at Boston University, where she is pursuing a doctoral degree in music education, and she serves as the Minister of Music at Piney Grove Baptist Church in Swansboro. She and her husband, Jim Gillentine, live in Hubert.
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