Pamela Dawson, a DeSoto ISD choir director, has won the prestigious Grammy award for her leadership at her school’s music program.
This is the second time in three years the DeSoto High School choir director has been named a finalist for the prestigious award.The DeSoto High School choir director now boasts a Grammy award in her stock of achievements after winning the prestigious award this week.
Dawson received this year’s Grammy Music Educator Award along with $10,000 and a matching grant for her school’s music program. Originally from Detroit, Dawson moved to Texas in 2006. She recalls her mother telling her she didn’t know where DeSoto is, but that she was going to take the city “by storm.”
Dawson’s choirs have performed in New York at Carnegie Hall as well as at the Southwestern American Choral Directors Association national honor choir. Some of her former students have enrolled in highly regarded music programs and even have performed on Broadway.
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