Applegate, Garth 

Instrumental Music Teacher

garth applegate

Garth is entering his fourth year teaching the Friends school. In that time he has built the instrumental program music to include an orchestra and world music ensemble in every grade of the middle school, a middle school jazz band, a beginning fourth grade band program and various other smaller ensembles. Prior to teaching at Friends, Garth attended the Westtown School and went on to receive his BA in music education at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After touring in North Carolina, Garth moved to San Francisco where he taught music and visual art to youth on probation at the Principal Center’s Collaborative. Garth keeps busy writing and performing around the Bay Area and recently completed “Muse at Eleven”, his debut CD of solo classical guitar pieces.