About the Instructors/Admin
Ms. Davidson-Stanfill
Ms. Davidson-Stanfill is a veteran teacher with an expertise in beginning instrumental instruction. She has been teaching for over 25 years in various combinations of subjects, always including beginning instrumental instruction. Ms. Davidson-Stanfill started this program, originally in the Rock Canyon feeder area in 2009, in response to the District budget cuts and in response to many people requesting that a band and orchestra program continue. Her program grew to include the Castle View and Chaparral feeder in 2010, won the Macaroni Kids Best Music Lessons Award in 2014, expanded to include the Ponderosa, ThunderRidge and Mountain Vista areas in 2014, and won the Macaroni Kids Best Music Lessons Award in 2016 and again in 2019. She is excited to continue her collaboration with the Colorado Chamber Orchestra at to bring a quality program into the Chaparral feeder area again this year. Keeping the opportunity to play an instrument available to our kids is her top priority.
Ms. Erickson
Ms. Erickson is very passionate about performing and teaching music. Her main instrument is flute, which she has played for 34 years. Next is piccolo (32), oboe (31), and then clarinet and saxophone (30). She also plays brass instruments, and loves to participate in Tuba Christmas and Holiday Brassfest at Denver Center for the Performing Arts. She earned bachelor's degrees in Music Education and Flute Performance from Metro State University in 2002. She has taught private woodwind lessons for 20 years, and has also taught general music, band, choir, orchestra, flute choirs, etc. in public schools. She additionally teaches gifted and talented programs, and currently is also a woodwind teacher with Colorado Honor Band. She is in her 20th year playing flute and piccolo with the Colorado Wind Ensemble, and 9th year of playing oboe (where she holds the Principal position) with the Thornton Community Band. She conducts a flute and oboe choir called Floboes, for High School students and adults, two sessions per year. She subs in local orchestras on mainly flute and oboe, and plays in pit orchestras (on all woodwinds), in operas, in churches, in rock bands and in many other professional gigs around the Denver area. She is very excited to be teaching band students for the Colorado Chamber Orchestra's Douglas County outreach this year!
Ms. Petersen
Ms. Petersen is excited about being a part of the CHEIM program. She has a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Northern Colorado and a Masters Degree in Creative Arts in Education from Lesley University. She has taught private violin, viola and cello lessons for thirty years, and recently retired from Northeast and Mountain View Elementary Schools, where she taught for 23 years, teaching General Music, Orchestra and Choir. Her passion is the viola and playing in the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra. When not working with wonderful students, Ms. Petersen loves to spend time in the mountains and traveling with her husband and her two grown children.
Mr. Stroman is excited to be a part of the PEIM program! A second-generation Colorado native, Mr. Stroman received his Bachelor and Master of Music Education degrees from the University of Northern Colorado. He taught middle and high school band and orchestra in the Douglas County school district for thirty years. Mr. Stroman is a multiple recipient of the Who’s Who Among American Teachers award and was a finalist for the 2010 Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching. When he’s not working with the GREATEST beginning band and orchestra students in the world and their teachers, he enjoys playing his trumpet, gardening and traveling with his wife.\