Christine Bruns
Christine D. Bruns, National Vice President, Collegiate Chapters, is a 1994 initiate of Epsilon Chapter at Ithaca College, where she earned both her BM and MM in Music Education.
She has served as president and corresponding secretary of her collegiate chapter, president of the Ithaca Patroness-Alumnae Chapter from 1998-2000, and charity recital chair of the Baltimore Alumnae Chapter in 2009.In 2000, Christine was appointed Eta B Province Officer and then, after a move to Atlanta in 2005, became the Tau A Province Officer. As a PO, she helped create the MIT training program and chaired the committee to develop an Officer Training Manual for POs to use with their chapters. In 2008, she also served as the Region 6 Regional Officer and led the Weave II Leadership Seminar in Greenville, South Carolina. She has led convention workshops on recruitment and multi-tasking chapter activities, and most recently, she was the chair of the National Objectives Committee for the 2009 National Convention in Chicago. Christine is a recipient of the SAI College Honor Award, Scholastic Award, Sword of Honor, and Rose of Honor.
Christine has been a public and private school music educator in New York, Georgia, and Maryland. While teaching for Groton Central Schools and Rockdale County Schools, she taught middle and high school choir, voice lessons, reading, general music, show choir, pep band, and marching band. Her duties also included co-directing musicales, arts department chair, grant writing, and advising the award-winning Conyers Middle School Tri-M chapter. While in Georgia, she was appointed GMEA State Tri-M Chair, writing articles for Georgia Music News and presenting a workshop at the GMEA state in-service conference. Christine most recently taught private piano, voice, and woodwind lessons, as well as Kindermusik classes, at Joyful Sounds School of Music in Forest Hill, Maryland. As an oboist, she has performed with the Ithaca Concert Band, Army Ground Forces Band, Atlanta’s “Tara Winds”, the Bel Air Community Band, and the Army Materiel Command Band.
Christine and her husband, SGT Robert Bruns, a trombonist for the US Army and an SAI Friend of the Arts, enjoy raising their son, Michael, and their three cats - Sophie, Fiji, and Mama Joan.