About

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” 

~ Mark Van Doren, poet

Mr. Daniel Watson

Director of High School Choirs
Daniel Watson is a versatile teacher and musician living in Central Indianapolis with over a decade in the industry. In his fourth year at Greenwood, he serves as the Director of Choirs teaching Jade, Rhapsody, Reverie, Chorale, and Beginning Piano. Mr. Watson is also an Associate Faculty of Voice at the IUPUI Department of Music and Arts Technology. Mr. Watson owns Daniel Watson Music (danielscottwatson.com), where he maintains an active private music studio and regularly collaborates and performs in the community through conducting, piano and vocal performance, and composing.


Mr. Watson previously worked for five years as the Director of Music at Covenant Christian High School in Indianapolis, Indiana where he taught choirs, band, and music theory. He recently completed his NCSA Graduate Fellowship, earning his Masters of Arts in Education in Instruction and Curriculum Design at York College, with a research focus in behavioral, cognitive, and emotional student engagement. Mr. Watson graduated magna cum laude from the University of Indianapolis with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education studying piano, voice, and composition. As a collaborative musician in Indianapolis, Mr. Watson is also a member of the American Choral Directors Association, Indiana Choral Directors Association, and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). Mr. Watson received the Outstanding Future Music Educator Award of 2015 from the Indiana Music Education Association as well as the NAfME National Professional Achievement Award in 2014 and 2015. 


Mr. Watson can be found singing tenor in the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir with his wonderful wife, Bethany, at the Hilbert Circle Theatre and the Palladium. He has performed and directed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and various university campuses. Mr. Watson’s passion for music education aims to foster lifelong passions, memorable moments, and transformation.
dwatson@gws.k12.in.us | 317-889-4000 ext 3103

Mr. Daniel Watson

Director of High School Choirs
Daniel Watson is a versatile teacher and musician living in Central Indianapolis with over a decade in the industry. In his fourth year at Greenwood, he serves as the Director of Choirs teaching Jade, Rhapsody, Reverie, Chorale, and Beginning Piano. Mr. Watson is also an Associate Faculty of Voice at the IUPUI Department of Music and Arts Technology. Mr. Watson owns Daniel Watson Music (danielscottwatson.com), where he maintains an active private music studio and regularly collaborates and performs in the community through conducting, piano and vocal performance, and composing.


Mr. Watson previously worked for five years as the Director of Music at Covenant Christian High School in Indianapolis, Indiana where he taught choirs, band, and music theory. He recently completed his NCSA Graduate Fellowship, earning his Masters of Arts in Education in Instruction and Curriculum Design at York College, with a research focus in behavioral, cognitive, and emotional student engagement. Mr. Watson graduated magna cum laude from the University of Indianapolis with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education studying piano, voice, and composition. As a collaborative musician in Indianapolis, Mr. Watson is also a member of the American Choral Directors Association, Indiana Choral Directors Association, and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). Mr. Watson received the Outstanding Future Music Educator Award of 2015 from the Indiana Music Education Association as well as the NAfME National Professional Achievement Award in 2014 and 2015. 


Mr. Watson can be found singing tenor in the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir with his wonderful wife, Bethany, at the Hilbert Circle Theatre and the Palladium. He has performed and directed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and various university campuses. Mr. Watson’s passion for music education aims to foster lifelong passions, memorable moments, and transformation.
dwatson@gws.k12.in.us | 317-889-4000 ext 3103

Miss Caitlin Lincourt

Director of Middle School Choirs
Caitlin Lincourt is currently in her 15th year of teaching in the Greenwood Community School Corporation. She is the middle school choir director, with three distinct choirs and a junior vocal jazz choir, as well as the sixth grade General Music teacher. She is also the director of the middle school musical held in the fall of each year. Miss Lincourt graduated magna cum laude from Indiana State University with a degree in Music Education.


Miss Lincourt is active in several professional music organizations. She is a member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME, local chapter IMEA). Many of her students have been a part of the Honor choir at IMEA. She also is currently involved in Area 5 Middle School Circle the State with Song (CSWS) program. In the summer of 2018, she traveled to Europe with the Indiana Ambassadors of Music as a staff director and plans to go again summer 2023. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, baking, sewing, and is active in community theatre as an actress and vocal director.
clincourt@gws.k12.in.us | 317-889-4040 x4116

Miss Caitlin Lincourt

Director of Middle School Choirs
Caitlin Lincourt is currently in her 15th year of teaching in the Greenwood Community School Corporation. She is the middle school choir director, with three distinct choirs and a junior vocal jazz choir, as well as the sixth grade General Music teacher. She is also the director of the middle school musical held in the fall of each year. Miss Lincourt graduated magna cum laude from Indiana State University with a degree in Music Education.


Miss Lincourt is active in several professional music organizations. She is a member of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME, local chapter IMEA). Many of her students have been a part of the Honor choir at IMEA. She also is currently involved in Area 5 Middle School Circle the State with Song (CSWS) program. In the summer of 2018, she traveled to Europe with the Indiana Ambassadors of Music as a staff director and plans to go again summer 2023. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, baking, sewing, and is active in community theatre as an actress and vocal director.

Ms. Lisa Knartzer

Music Department Secretary 

Ms. Lisa (Mom) Knartzer has been the music department secretary for Greenwood High School since 2012. She does a wide variety of tasks for both the choir and the band, and used to help the theater department. She has always enjoyed the arts, being in the color guard, show choir, and several musicals at her alma mater, Beech Grove High School and in the Marching Hundred Color Guard at Indiana University. Ms. Knartzer’s daughters, Ashley and Allison, were in the Greenwood band during the 2007-2011 years. That was when Ms. Knartzer began her time in the music department as a “Box Mom”, assisting the students with their uniforms. The following year, she became the band camp chairperson and head chaperone until she was hired as the music department secretary. Last year, she missed a lot of the year due to unforeseen brain lesions that left her undergoing 12 rounds of chemotherapy, succumbing to Septic Shock and having to learn how to walk again! Ms. Knartzer is back and loves getting to know the students while watching them accomplish so much, getting to know their parents, and being a part of these programs.

Mr. Gavin Craig

Collaborative Pianist
Gavin Craig is an Indiana native, conductor, and performing musician who has a special interest in sacred music, historical performance practice, and using the arts to promote social justice. Gavin received his Bachelor’s from the University of Indianapolis, where he studied classical saxophone performance, voice, and piano. From there, he went on to receive his Master’s of Music from Butler University in choral conducting. In addition to his work as a teacher, Gavin is active in the music community of Indianapolis as a performer, studio artist, church musician, and member of the board of directors for multiple professional performing ensembles.

Dr. Karri York

Voice Instructor 
Dr. Karri York, soprano, currently serves on the Voice Faculty at Anderson University, IUPUI Music  Arts and Technology, and UIndy Community Music Academy. In addition to teaching voice, Dr. York is  Director of Music at Tapestry Church in Greenwood, Indiana where she directs choir, handbells, youth  ensembles, and instrumental ensembles. She is active in several professional music organizations. Her  roles include Secretary of the Indiana Chapter of National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS),  President of Indiana Arts Festival, an Indiana State School Music Association (ISSMA) Certified  Adjudicator in the area of Vocal/Piano Solo and Ensemble Events, and Board Member of Indianapolis  Matinee Musicale. She is also certified in the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework.  

Dr. York’s professional performance experiences include solo recitals, oratorio, opera, and extensive  studio work as a session singer. She has performed as soprano soloist for Castlewood Chamber Singers  in extravagant Basilicas in Portugal and Spain, and as a select choral singer with Indianapolis Chamber  Orchestra for Beethoven’s opera Fidelio. In addition, she has performed soprano roles in Handel’s  Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor and Mozart’s Requiem with such ensembles  as Hendricks County Symphony Orchestra, Fishers Chamber Orchestra, Masterworks Chorale, and  Muncie Symphony Orchestra. Her favorite operatic roles, which she has also performed, include Susanna  in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Laurie Moss in Copland’s The Tenderland, Gretel in Humperdinck’s  Hansel and Gretel, and Nerone in Handel’s Aggripina.

Mrs. Dena Shomali

Voice Instructor 
Mrs. Dena Shomali graduated from The University of Indianapolis with her B.A. Degree in Music with an emphasis in Vocal Performance. She began her education in San Diego, CA, (where she was born and raised) and had her Solo debut with the San Diego Ballet in their production of Felix Mendelssohn – “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. After moving to Indianapolis in 2001 and completing her college degree, Dena began teaching private voice lessons in her own studio, while also working as a Church Director of Music. In 2005, she began her career as a Contract Vocalist for Recording Studios in Indiana, with her voice featured in choral settings, recording music for publishers, arrangers, and composers from around the country. Dena has also had the privilege of being featured as Soprano soloist at the University of Indianapolis with the Indianapolis Symphonic Orchestra in the production of Haydn’s “Missa Sancti Nicolai”. She is currently the Music Director/Worship Leader at One Christian Church in Greenwood, IN. Dena was delighted to resurrect her passion for teaching the art of voice to students who are both beginning their singing journey as well as to those who are well on their way. She is delighted to be one of the vocal instructors for Greenwood Community High School.

Awards & Accomplishment

Jade

Rhapsody

Revery

Chorale 

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