CAROL LYNN MIZELL, Band Director at Strickland Middle School in Denton, has also conducted the Denton Community Band since 1978. She holds B.M.E. & M.M.E. degrees from the University of North Texas and has done extensive post-graduate work at UNT. She is also Conductor of the Handbell Choirs at First United Methodist Church, Denton, and a long-time member of the FUMC Chancel Choir. Carol Lynn is a Charter Member of Concert Bells of Fort Worth, an auditioned community handbell choir in the Metroplex. She currently serves as a Ringer and was Co-conductor of CBFW for two years and on their Christmas Favorites CD. She hosted the Fifth Annual Denton Area Bell Jam in March, 2004, and was the Mass Ringing Conductor. Carol Lynn has rung for two years with Distinctly Bronze, an event for advanced Handbell ringers in Myrtle Beach, SC, and rang with the Dream Team at Pinnacle, 2004, an event for Community Handbell groups. She has served as Handbell Clinician for area festivals and in the Music and Arts Camp of the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church, and taught Children's Chimes and Beginning Handbells at Mo Ranch in 2004. An active participant in community arts, Carol Lynn was a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Denton Arts Council for 9 years, served as Treasurer, served as President (1986 87), and was the recipient of GDAC's Community Arts Recognition Award (CARA) in 1989. She served as Associate Director of the Denton Festival of Carols for thirteen years. Carol Lynn holds membership in Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, and Sigma Alpha Iota. She is a published composer and an Oboist. She and her husband, Bob, have two daughters, Michelle Corazao and Jennifer Mizell, and son-in-law Marc Corazao.

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