Faculty
Don Beller
Don D. Beller is a graduate of Flathead County High School, in Kalispell Montana, and earned his B.A. in Music Education from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota (1968) and his M.M.Ed. from VanderCook College of Music in Chicago, Illinois (1975). He has done post graduate work on the Double Bass with Warren Benfield, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, DePaul University (1978) and Roma Vayspapir, Leningrad Philharmonic and the Spokane (WA) Symphony.
Mr. Beller has spent 31 years teaching grades 4-12 in the public schools, including 16 years in Great Falls MT and 15 years in Missoula. He has taught orchestra, band and jazz band, and served for 14 years as chairman of the Music Department, North Junior High School, in Great Falls MT. He is currently Director of Orchestras at Hellgate and Sentinel High Schools (Missoula MT) and is Director of the Missoula Youth Symphony.
He has performed as Principal Double Bass with the Fargo/Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, the Concordia College Orchestra and Band, the Great Falls Symphony Orchestra and the Montana Chamber Orchestra. He has also performed with the Gold Coast Chamber Orchestra in Chicago currently serves as Principal Double Bass with the Missoula Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Beller is Past President of the Montana String Teachers' Association.
Contact Don Beller: don.beller@mso.umt.edu