About The Teacher

Gregory Franklin is currently a music specialist at Greenlee Primary and Deyton Elementary Schools in Mitchell County, North Carolina. Mr. Franklin is a 1999 graduate of Mitchell High School and a recipient of the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Scholarship. He is a graduate of Western Carolina University where he a Bachelor of Science in Education with a concentration in instrumental music, and a Master of Arts in Education degree in Educational Supervision. He is a licensed curriculum specialist and instructional technology specialist.

While at Western, Mr. Franklin studied tuba with Dr. Kenneth Kroesche, piano with Dr. Lillian Buss Pearson and conducting with Dr. Kroesche and Dr. Robert Holquist. As a member of the Catamount Chamber Singers, under the direction of Dr. Bruce Frazier, he shared the same stage with such artist as The Manhattan Transfer and Edwin McCain. As a member of the Concert Choir, Franklin had the opportunity to perform such master works as the Mass in E Flat by Schubert and the Reqium by Mozart. 

In 2002, Franklin was a member of the Western Carolina University Tuba Euphonium Quartet, representing North Carolina at the Southeast Regional Chamber Music Conpetition sponsored by the Music Teachers National Association .  As a member of the Catamount Five, a brass quintet, he represented North Carolina at the same event in 2003.  Franklin served the Western Carolina University "Pride of the Mountains" Marching Band as a member of the sousaphone section, the equipment staff, sousaphone section leader, low brass coordinator and joined the staff as Staff Coordinator. 

Franklin served on the instructional staff of the East Lincoln High School Mustang Band and serves annually as a facilitator for conferences on education as a profession and diversity in the classroom, both of which are sponsored by the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program . 

Mr. Franklin is a member of the North Carolina Music Educators' Association , the Music Educators National Conference , the North Carolina Association of Educators , the National Education Association , the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development , the American Choral Directors Association and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity .