Nationally recognized clinicians in music education present workshops in the field of music education once each semester.  These gifted clinicians bring for our students and area classroom teachers a variety of approaches in music education.   New pedagogical techniques, ethnomusicology, movement, folk music and instrumental techniques, brain development, and elementary choral techniques are but a few of the existing topics.

Dress comfortably for movement, as the clinicians will ask for your participation! 

Dr. Jill Trinka
September 13, 2008, 9 am - noon, 1 - 3 pm, Lekberg Hall, Amy Robertson Music Center
Folk Songs and Singing Games: The Best Musical Foundation for Children

Dr. Jill Trinka is Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Programs in Music Education at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, where she also is artistic director of the UST Kodaly Institute and teaches graduate and undergraduate musicianship, folk music, and music education courses.  Dr. Trinka holds degrees in music education from the University of Illinois (B.S.) and The University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.), and Kodaly Certification from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, as a Ford Foundation Ringer Fellow.  She has taught music in public and private schools in Illinois, New Your, Connecticut and Texas, pre-K through grade 5.  Dr. Trinka has taught in Kodaly teacher education programs throughout the United States, including the University of North Texas, where she was also Director of the Center for Contemporary Studies in Music Education; Portland State University in Portland, Oregon; The Hartt School at University of Hartford, Hartfor, Connecticut and DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.  Dr. Trinka is a past president of the Organization of American Kodaly Educators; she received their Outstanding Educator award in 2003.

Dr. Susan Brumfield 
January 17, 2009, 9 am - noon, 1 - 3 pm, Lekberg Hall, Amy Robertson Music Center
Hot Peas and Barley-O and Over the Garden Wall: Children's Songs and Games from Scotland and England

Dr. Susan Brumfield is Associate Professor of Music Education at Texas Tech University and is the founder, conductor and artistic director of the West Texas Chhildren's Chorus.  She holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Oklahoma, as well as degrees from Stephen F. Austin State University and Louisiana Tech University.  Dr. Brumfield is widely known throughout the United States and Europoe as a clinician, consultant, author, composer, arranger and conductor of children's choirs and is an internationally recognized Kodaly educator.  Dr. Brumfield is a program author for the national series music texts Silver Burdett Ginn Making Muic and autior of "Kodaly in the Classroom" articles featured in John Jacobson's Music Express magazine.  Her choral music is available through Colla Voce Music and Hal Leonard Publications.  Dr. Brumfield was invited by the International Kodaly Society to represent the United States with a new choral composition commissioned for the internationally released IKS publication, Music: A Universal Language.  Dr. Brumfield has presented sessions for many state and regional organizations, as well as for the national and international conferences of OAKE, AOSA, IKS and the British Kodaly Academy.  Most recently, she presented her research at the 2008 Conference of the International Society for Music Education, held in Bologna, Italy.