Staff

Margaret Heron

Executive Director

Meredith DeVore

Director, Intermezzo

Sadie Wall

Director, Prelude

Karen Krekelberg

Choir Accompanist

Margaret Heron

Margaret Heron recently retired after a 25-year career Choral Director and AP Music Theory Instructor at Mortimer Jordan High School and Choral Director at North Jefferson Middle School in the Jefferson County School System. For her first nine years, Mrs. Heron also taught Junior and Senior High Band. She earned a BA in Instrumental Music Education from The University of Alabama and a Masters in Choral Music Education from The University of Alabama at Birmingham, summa cum laude. Mrs. Heron received National Board Certification in Choral Music in 2008. Under her direction, her choirs consistently received Superior ratings at District, State, national, and international festivals and were invited to perform all over the Southeast. She has been the Choral Clinician and adjudicator for various honor choirs, festivals, and camps throughout the south. Mrs. Heron served on the state board of the Alabama Choral Directors Association and the Alabama Vocal Association Executive Board. She has worked for the College Board, training teachers to score AP Theory exams. Mrs. Heron developed It Works In Theory, a sequential and comprehensive curriculum for teaching music theory in the classroom. She rejoined the teaching staff at BGC in 2013 and became Executive Director in 2021. She is passionate about teaching young people the value of commitment to excellence and unity through the beauty of choral singing. She is excited to be a part of such a wonderful organization and looks forward to the growth and expansion in the Birmingham area and beyond.

Meredith DeVore

Meredith Devore is the music specialist at Shades Mountain Elementary School where she teaches K-5 music and directs the SMES Singers. She has been the director of the Intermezzo Choir of the Birmingham Girls Choir since 2011. She earned her Bachelor's of Music Education from Auburn University, graduating summa cum laude in 2008. Mrs. DeVore directed the choral program at Clay-Chalkville Middle School for seven years, growing the program and leading the choirs to perform locally as well as across the Southeast. At CCMS, her singers consistently earned superior ratings and were accepted into local and state honor choirs. Mrs. DeVore is also active in the music ministry at Hunter Street Baptist Church, where she sings in the worship choir and directs OneVoice, an ensemble of auditioned high school singers. Mrs. DeVore is a member of the National Association for Music Education and the American Choral Directors Association, where she serves as a coordinator of the Young Voices Festival. She and her husband Elliott have two children, Hadley and Wyatt.

Sadie Wall

Sadie Wall is the music specialist at Edgewood Elementary in Homewood, AL. There, she teaches general music to grades Kindergarten through 5th and conducts the 4th and 5th grade Edgewood Choir. Ms. Wall earned her BM from the University of Montevallo and is currently pursuing her Masters in Music Education at Texas Tech University. She is a certified Kodály educator through the endorsed program at the University of Montevallo and holds her Level I certificate in Orff. Ms. Wall serves as President-Elect of the Sweet Home Alabama Kodály Educators (SHAKE), Vice President of Alabama Voices, and Music In Our Schools Month chair with the Alabama Music Educators Association (AMEA). She is the recipient of the 2021 AMEA Young Music Educator Award. Ms. Wall is looking forward to working with the students in Prelude, introducing them to the joy of choir.

Karen Krekelberg

Karen Krekelberg is currently on staff at Vestavia Hills Methodist Church as the Associate Director of Music Ministry and Organist. Karen earned a Bachelor of Music from the University of Montevallo with an emphasis in Piano Pedagogy. While there, she studied piano with Robert Cowan and organ with Betty Louise Lumby. She currently teaches private piano at VHUMC’s Conservatory of the Arts and is a member of AMTA and AGO. Karen is a mother of two grown children and grandmother of one precious girl. She can often be found accompanying for various music groups and theatre productions around Birmingham.