Summer Boggess is the Orchestra Director for the Whitefish Middle and High Schools. Originally from Denver, CO, she loves both performing and teaching. She most recently played cello for Mean Girls on Broadway. Previous Broadway shows include the revival of Hello Dolly starring Bette Midler, Kristin Chenoweth’s My Love Letter to Broadway, the Broadway revival of Les Miserables, A Christmas Carol, Big Fish, The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Scandalous, and Bye, Bye, Birdie. Other NYC engagements include City Center Encores, the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera, Madison Square Garden, “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon”, “The Today Show”, and “The Late Show with David Letterman.” Summer received her Masters degree from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and her undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Summer completed her Suzuki Teacher Training at the School for Strings in Manhattan and has been on the faculty of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and the Birch Wathen Lenox School in Manhattan. She loves finding creative ways for students to connect with music and all that playing in orchestra has to offer.