green valley high school choir

Kimberly Barclay Ritzer is in her 32nd year as director of the Green Valley High School Choirs in Henderson, Nevada, opening the school in 1991. She is in her 33rd year as a teacher for the Clark

County School District; as a graduate of the CCSD, she is proud to have taught her entire career in the district she grew up in.  She is a 1990 graduate of UNLV where she received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and a 2001 graduate of The University of Phoenix with a Masters Degree in Educational Administration.  Mrs. Ritzer is currently the Task Force Chair for High School Choir and Facility Chair for the Clark County School District Secondary Fine Arts Programs.  In addition, Kim serves as the Green Valley High School Performing Arts Department Chair and has taught Secondary Choral Methods at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has served three terms as president of the Nevada Music Educators Association and three terms as Nevada ACDA president.  She is currently Past-President of the American Choral Directors Western Division, and Secretary of the Nevada ACDA chapter. Under her direction, the Green Valley High School Choirs consistently receive superior ratings at district, regional, state and national festivals. The GVHS Concert Choir performed at the 1998 ACDA Western Region Convention in Reno, the Madrigal Singers performed at the 2005 ACDA National Convention in Los Angeles, the 2009 ACDA National Convention in Oklahoma City, and the 2014 ACDA Western Region Conference in Santa Barbara. In June 2021, the  Green Valley High School Madrigal Singers were selected to perform at the ACDA Western Region Conference in Long Beach, in March of 2022.  In November of 2001, Kim was named the Henderson Chamber of Commerce "Most Outstanding Educator" and in February of 2002, she was named "Nevada Music Educator of the Year.” In November of 2002, Kim was selected as a recipient of the "Clark County School District Excellence in Education" Award. In 2004, she was named “Outstanding Alumni for the College of Fine Arts” by the UNLV Alumni Association and was most recently a finalist in the “Heart of Education” Awards for the Clark County School District in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and was a “Heart of Education” Winner in 2022.  Kim was also a 2021 semi-finalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award.  Most recently,  in June 2021, she was appointed as the Western Division Representative to the NAfME Council for Choral Education.