{"id":50,"date":"2013-04-28T20:48:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T03:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2016-08-21T19:39:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T02:39:47","slug":"meet-the-directors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/?page_id=50","title":{"rendered":"Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Heather.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Heather-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"Heather\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Heather-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Heather-250x354.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Heather.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>Heather Klenk,\u00a0<\/strong>director of the Summer Winds program,\u00a0started playing the clarinet in Lakeland, Michigan at the age of 11. \u00a0She earned her Bachelor&#8217;s in Performance on clarinet at Western Michigan University under the tutelage of Bradley Wong.\u00a0 Since she made her move to Los Angeles 11 years ago, Heather has had the opportunity to play with the Pacific Palisades Symphony, Marina del Rey Westchester Symphony, Golden State Pops Orchestra, and Westwind Woodwind Quintet.\u00a0 Her love for performing is prominent but never takes away from her true passion of teaching.\u00a0 Heather&#8217;s private studio consists of clarinet, saxophone, flute, and piano students, and she has had the opportunity to conduct sectionals and master classes around Los Angeles.\u00a0 She has assisted the band director, Mark Hunt, at Lincoln Middle School for 8 years and has served as the long-term substitute band director at Lincoln Middle School during the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 school years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Heather Klenk,\u00a0director of the Summer Winds program,\u00a0started playing the clarinet in Lakeland, Michigan at the age of 11. \u00a0She earned her Bachelor&#8217;s in Performance on clarinet at Western Michigan University under the tutelage of Bradley Wong.\u00a0 Since she made her move to Los Angeles 11 years ago, Heather has<a href=\"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/?page_id=50\" class=\"read-more\">Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summerstringsla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}