Karey Johnson Sitzler is String Orchestra conductor for the Williamsburg Youth Orchestra. Ms. Sitzler holds a Bachelor of Music in Instrumental Music Education with emphasis in Strings from Western Michigan University and a Master of Music in String Performance Pedagogy from Arizona State.  A violist, she has performed with professional symphony orchestras, chamber orchestras and chamber ensembles in Michigan, Indiana, Arizona, and Ohio for over 30 years.  She has taught string classes and private lessons to students ages 4-adult at beginning to university/conservatory levels, and has taught in school music programs for 28 years.  In 1986, Mrs. Sitzler founded the Young Strings Academy in Kalamazoo, Michigan which she directed until 1998.  From 1987-2000, she was the music director of the Kalamazoo Prep String and Training Orchestras.  In 1991 she led this group in performance at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago.  From 2000-2003, Ms. Sitzler served the Crooked Tree Arts Center in Petoskey, Michigan as Education Director for the Performing Arts and as Youth Orchestra conductor.  There she designed the arts curriculum, organized concerts featuring all 350 students from a three-county area, and coordinated cultural activites for participating schools.  Since 2003, she has been teaching at the Suffolk, Virginia Public Schools, where she was hired to develop a string program for the middle school.