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# Music to their ears
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/music-to-their-ears/
- Published: 2004-02-12T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T03:46:37.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Malibu, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

A local teacher has been honored for her leadership in in music. Bonnie Lockrem has been chosen as the recipient of the California Music Educators Association Southern Section Outstanding Music Educator Award. Lockrem will accept the award on March 19 in Sacramento. She has been the association’s orchestra representative for the last 10 years.

Lockrem has taught instrumental music in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District since 1973 and is currently teaching at all three Malibu elementary schools. A staunch advocate for music education, she helped create the award-winning music programs in the local school district. She served as a coordinator of the elementary instrumental music program for eight years and has been coordinator of the district’s widely acclaimed production, Stairway of the Stars, for three years.

Lockrem received her BA and MM from the University of Southern California. She is especially well known by the citizens of Malibu, where she lives and teaches with her husband Steven Ravaglioli, also a music educator in the district, and her daughter, Raquel. Lockrem also is a member of the music faculty at Pepperdine, a violinist with the Topanga Symphony and founder/director of the Malibu Music Seminar.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 12, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/021204.pdf?ref=smdp.com)