Welcome!
We hope this website provides information to parents, students and community members regarding the Colchester Middle School Music Program.
The music department at CMS strives to encourage a creative community of developing musicians. We are proud to have several performing ensembles in addition to many general music classes. Students may participate in: grade-level Chorus, 6th and 7/8th grade Band, auditioned after school Show Choir, Select Choir, after school Jazz Band, and/or yearly school musical. Our curriculum is comprised of rhythm studies, composition, basic recorder and guitar performance and techniques, music history and beginning music theory.
Please visit the Friends of Colchester Music website for more information about the parent/community involvement in our district music program. Click here
We encourage all parents to stay involved with their students progress in our classes and ensembles via Parent Portal, as well as checking this website for important dates and additional information. Please feel free to email us with any questions, concerns, or celebrations regarding your students and/or our program.
Important Dates
About Us
Emily Brennan Instrumental Activities, General Music 6-8, School Musical brennane@csdvt.org
Ms. Brennan is in her second year teaching at CMS, but grew up through the Colchester School District! She received her Bachelor's degree in Music Education K-12 at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH. Throughout her time there, she studied voice, and played tuba in the PSU Symphonic Band. She was also a section leader of the PSU Chamber Singers, with whom she toured the east coast of the US, Canada, and Vietnam. After completing her student teaching in Nashua, NH, Ms. Brennan moved back to Colchester and spent time in the district as a Paraeducator and Intensive Needs Interventionist before beginning her exciting teaching position at CMS. Ms. Brennan regularly sings and plays piano at a local church, as well as plays tuba in the Burlington-based German polka band, The Inseldudler, and the Milton Community Band in summer and winter.
Bridgette Tozzi Choral Activies, General Music 6-8 tozzib@csdvt.org
Mrs. Tozzi grew up in the Adirondacks and traveled to New Jersey to attend Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, NJ. She received her Bachelor's of Music Education with a Major in Voice, performing at Carnegie Hall with the Symphonic Choir under the direction of Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt. She has spent the last 16 years teaching Music at middle and high school levels in New Jersey and Vermont. Six years ago, Mrs. Tozzi embarked upon a more simple way of life and headed to Vermont, where the hills truly are alive with the sound of music!
The music department at CMS strives to encourage a creative community of developing musicians. We are proud to have several performing ensembles in addition to many general music classes. Students may participate in: grade-level Chorus, 6th and 7/8th grade Band, auditioned after school Show Choir, Select Choir, after school Jazz Band, and/or yearly school musical. Our curriculum is comprised of rhythm studies, composition, basic recorder and guitar performance and techniques, music history and beginning music theory.
Please visit the Friends of Colchester Music website for more information about the parent/community involvement in our district music program. Click here
We encourage all parents to stay involved with their students progress in our classes and ensembles via Parent Portal, as well as checking this website for important dates and additional information. Please feel free to email us with any questions, concerns, or celebrations regarding your students and/or our program.
Important Dates
- NEW! MAY 17th: CMS Talent Show, 6:30-8:30pm, CMS Cafeteria- for Band and Chorus students and their families ONLY
- NEW! JUNE 2nd: CMS Band Carwash, 9am-noon, CMS Parking Lot
- Car Wash Sign Up Genius link!!! Click HERE
- JUNE 6th: CMS Choral Concert, 7pm CHS Auditorium
- JUNE 7th: CMS Instrumental Concert, 7pm, CMS Gymnasium
About Us
Emily Brennan Instrumental Activities, General Music 6-8, School Musical brennane@csdvt.org
Ms. Brennan is in her second year teaching at CMS, but grew up through the Colchester School District! She received her Bachelor's degree in Music Education K-12 at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH. Throughout her time there, she studied voice, and played tuba in the PSU Symphonic Band. She was also a section leader of the PSU Chamber Singers, with whom she toured the east coast of the US, Canada, and Vietnam. After completing her student teaching in Nashua, NH, Ms. Brennan moved back to Colchester and spent time in the district as a Paraeducator and Intensive Needs Interventionist before beginning her exciting teaching position at CMS. Ms. Brennan regularly sings and plays piano at a local church, as well as plays tuba in the Burlington-based German polka band, The Inseldudler, and the Milton Community Band in summer and winter.
Bridgette Tozzi Choral Activies, General Music 6-8 tozzib@csdvt.org
Mrs. Tozzi grew up in the Adirondacks and traveled to New Jersey to attend Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, NJ. She received her Bachelor's of Music Education with a Major in Voice, performing at Carnegie Hall with the Symphonic Choir under the direction of Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt. She has spent the last 16 years teaching Music at middle and high school levels in New Jersey and Vermont. Six years ago, Mrs. Tozzi embarked upon a more simple way of life and headed to Vermont, where the hills truly are alive with the sound of music!
