Gene Grego is a lecturer in the Department of Music Education at the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Grego began his teaching career as a public school chorus teacher at Steinmetz Junior High School in Schenectady, NY and then at Wilbur H. Lynch Middle School in his hometown of Amsterdam, NY. He earned a Master of Music Education Degree in Choral Music Education from Ithaca College, and a second Master's Degree from the State University of New York at Albany in Educational Administration. His early musical training included private music education with organist Augusta Canale, and voice with Margaret Lazarou. When he was 12 he began to play the organ at his church and was also director…