Annemieke Farrow is delighted to join the Long Beach Chorale this season! She appeared in her first musical at age 6, discovering a passion that developed into a successful career in New York City after graduating from college with a BFA in Acting. While performing in many theatrical productions and movies, she was also recruited to join the Young People’s Chorus of NYC. Highlights of performing with YPC included singing “Carmina Burana” at Carnegie Hall along with 8 other choirs and a full orchestra from the Netherlands, and traveling to Bulgaria for the “Festival of Light” choral festival.
In 2005, Annemieke began volunteering for the ASPCA and discovered a new passion: dog training. She moved to Long Beach in 2007 to accept a job as an Animal Behavior and Training Specialist at the spcaLA and became a Certified Professional Dog Trainer later that year. From this position, she moved into the Humane Education Department at the spcaLA, where she ran violence-prevention programs for at-risk youth and helped to develop an intervention program for juvenile animal cruelty offenders, which is now court-mandated for many offenders in Los Angeles County. Although Annemieke left her full-time position this year in order to return to school, she still enjoys teaching dog training classes for students and the public through the spcaLA, as well as helping private clients with their dogs’ behavior.
In her (quite scarce) free-time, Annemieke also enjoys swing dancing and supporting her swing-dance team The Fly Rights, 4-time winners of the National Jitterbug Championships and this year’s winners of the International Lindy Hop Championships!
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