Beth Duhon
Beth (Ribble) Duhon is passionate about music teacher self-care. She has presented on the subject for the OAKE national conference, IAMEA, Musicplayonline.com, TMEA, TCDA and Houston Arts Partners conferences. She has been a podcast guest on Mrs. Stouffer’s VIP Music Room Podcast, Afternoon Ti, Musicast, The Elementary Music Teacher Podcast and The Music Room with Aileen Miracle. Ms. Duhon’s Facebook group is “Self-Care for the Music Educator.” She is the author of “Happier Music Teacher: 50 Days to Being a Happier Music Teacher at Home and School” for F-flat Books.
She taught K-5 elementary music for six years in Lamar Consolidated ISD. During that time, she received over $14,000 in classroom grants for a keyboard lab, iPads, and music manipulatives in addition to regularly receiving travel grants for music education conferences. Previously, Ms. Duhon was a successful horn private lesson teacher, clinician, and freelance performer in the West Houston area for over a decade. She also taught elementary music in Williamsburg, VA and middle school general music in Falls Church, VA before moving to Texas.
She was an honors recitalist, principal horn in the wind ensemble and orchestra, cum laude and an inductee of Pi Kappa Lambda from Illinois Wesleyan University where she received a B.M.E. At the University of Houston, Ms. Duhon was a teaching assistant in the music history department, summa cum laude and a student of Roger Kaza (St. Louis Symphony) and Nancy Goodearl (Houston Symphony). She received an M.M. in horn performance.
Ms. Duhon met her husband, Jimmy, when they were both performing as instrumentalists at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. They have a son, Mark.
