Aisha Bowden
CHORAL & ABREAU FELLOWS PROGRAM 2012
Aisha Bowden has been a scholar of music from a very early age. She received formal training from Howard University, earning a Bachelors of Music Education with a piano minor. She has performed domestically and internationally, to include Switzerland, Germany and Gabon, Africa.
Until June 2009, she served as Chair of the Music Department at Thomson Elementary School in Washington, D.C., where she also held the position of Director of the Thomson Choir. Under her direction, the Thomson Choir performed for the King and Queen of Norway, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and the Bicentennial Celebration of Abraham Lincoln at which President Obama was the keynote speaker. The Thomson choir has appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, Good Morning America and local television networks.
During her tenure in the DC Public School system, Ms. Bowden also served as accompanist for the All-City Honors Chorus and a General Music Curriculum Writer for the DCPS Division of Music. Additionally, Ms. Bowden has been recognized for excellence in arts education by the Arts for Every Student Program, Who’s Who in American Educators and the Mayors Arts Awards.
In Fall 2009, Ms. Bowden began serving as the Chorus Director at Lindley Sixth Grade Academy and Lindley Middle School in Mableton, GA. In Fall 2010, she also worked with the Atlanta Music Project as Choral Teaching Artist.
Ms. Bowden is currently an Abreu Fellow at New England Conservatory in Boston, MA. The Abreu Fellows Program exists to educate 10 people each year to make significant and sustainable contributions to the growth of the El Sistema movement in the United States.
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