Mrs. Monte recently retired after 34 years of public school music teaching. She has served on the executive boards of the Massachusetts Music Educators Association, the Massachusetts String Teachers Association and the Foundation for the Advancement of String Education.
As a cellist, she has performed with the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic. Mrs. Monte is active in organizing festivals and managing orchestras and has served as an adjudicator and conductor for District and All State festivals in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine. For the better part of 10 years she taught at Southern Maine String Camp. She is on the music department faculty at UMass Dartmouth, where she teaches string pedagogy.