Biography
Gillian Erlenborn is honored to be joining the faculty of Westminster Choir College of Rider University, where she will serve as the new conductor of the Westminster Choir College Handbell Choirs. She is a proud alumna of the Westminster Concert Handbell Choir, ringing under Kathy Ebling Shaw and serving as the ensemble's graduate assistant. Gillian received both a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Westminster Choir College.
Gillian is the Choral Director and Musical Theatre Teacher at Frelinghuysen Middle School, in Morristown, New Jersey, teaching over two hundred students from diverse social and economic demographics. Gillian utilizes handbells and handchimes in her vocal ensemble curriculum to better engage her students in a full body and literacy-based musical education.
As a handbell clinician, Gillian travels throughout the country to share her expertise in using handbells and handchimes in the music classroom. She has taught at various state music education association conferences, national music education conferences, and online for both the Handbell Musicians of America and the National Association for Music Education.
As a performer, Gillian sings as a freelance musician performing with various choirs and as a soloist around the tri-state area and even internationally. This year she will be ringing and singing in Singapore with the Ministry of Bellz. She will also perform as a ringer with the Zenith Handbell Ensemble in Bethesda, Maryland.
For over ten years, she has also directed both the handbell choir and the children's choir at Middlebush Reformed Church in Middlebush, New Jersey. Gillian is proud to serve on the National Board of the Handbell Musicians of America.