About

Miss Saige Barlow is currently the full-time choir director at Las Vegas High School (2 years) and was previously the choir director at Lawrence Junior High School (1 year) both in Las Vegas, NV. She also hosts a private studio in Henderson called Pitch Point Music Studios, where she offers private lessons for voice, piano, flute, and trumpet.

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Saige has also been part of many elite choral ensembles throughout her life, including Zion's Youth Symphony and Chorus (4 years), the Utah State University Chorale (1 year), the Utah State University Choral Scholars (1 year), the Utah State University Chamber Singers (2.5 years), and Utah State University's new a cappella group, Aggiepella (0.5 year) when it first started. Saige received her bachelor's degree from Utah State University in May 2022. There, she has had the privilege of working with renowned professors, including Craig Jessop, the current director of the American Festival Chorus in Logan, UT and former director of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. She is a highly rated teacher by many of her mentors, including Dr. Jessop, Dr. Cory Evans, and her student-teaching mentor, Larry Smith from Bountiful High School in Bountiful, UT. During her student teaching, she had the opportunity to conduct during a Festival performance in Northern, UT, and she and the choir received a superior rating!

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During her years of teaching, she has been very well-known in her work with Title I schools, and she firmly believes that just because students might struggle with living a comfortable, or even flexible lifestyle does not mean they cannot succeed in her classes. She has worked with students who could not read or come from struggling families, and those same students have been able to achieve superior sight-reading scores and excellent Festival ratings! As a high school teacher, she has developed several music videos and digital content to market all her choirs, and she has also brought out many unique talents from among her classes outside of vocal music! Throughout all her teaching experience, she has had positive interactions with her administration as well as high ratings of teaching effectiveness!

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Aside from teaching and performing, Saige has also composed many original works and written many original songs and arrangements of songs, which she has used in several performances around the western united states. Ever since starting at Las Vegas High School, she has arranged several songs for her individual students and choirs in order to showcase their talents in unique ways that no one else has heard before. This school year, she is premiering her own arrangement of a traditional Welsh piece called "Suo Gân," which will feature Welsh and English lyrics!

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Many of her students know that she deeply cares about each of them, and she strives every day to allow them to feel safe and heard in their classrooms while maintaining a positive, respectful, and growth-oriented environment where every student knows there are teachers and students who will always look out for them. Her mission statement has always been, "If choirs are not unified, the music performed cannot be performed well. When they are, excellence can be achieved better with preciseness, and the message of our music become more powerful. That's when the power of music truly manifests itself is when choirs are in unity for a positive cause." In such, everything she teaches is formulated in a way with the intention of allowing all students to succeed and be themselves, regardless of their beliefs or background.