"Cathy Moklebust has developed and directed handbell music programs since 1983, and has played bells since childhood. She is in national demand as a handbell clinician, conductor and composer, with approximately 90 compositions and arrangements to her credit,
several of them reaching "bestseller" status. Her
music has been widely performed, including
performances on "Today," "Good Morning, America," and
New Year's Eve on Times Square in New York. She has
been commissioned to write music for several AGEHR
events, as well as for numerous individual handbell
ensembles, including four for the Raleigh Ringers.
Cathy was the recipient of the Donald E. Allured
Composition Award (2000), and ASCAP Writer's Awards
(2001, 2002, 2003, 2004).
Cathy has conducted The King Ringers community
handbell ensemble in Fort Dodge, Iowa, the Eagle Grove
Bronze community handbell ensemble in Eagle Grove,
Iowa, and also plays in the percussion section of the
Karl L. King Municipal Band in Fort Dodge. Moklebust
has worked for many years in the music retail and
publishing industry, and now operates a music
engraving service with her husband.
She earned both her B.A. (Percussion, 1982) and M.Ed.
(Teacher Education/Music, 1988) at South Dakota State
University, in her hometown of Brookings, SD. Cathy
has served as director of handbell programs in several
churches, taught instrumental, choral and general
music in grades K-12, and has performed as principal
percussionist with several professional bands and
orchestras throughout the upper midwest. Ms.
Moklebust and her family reside in rural Eagle Grove,
Iowa, on her husband's 100+ year-old family farm."
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