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Kodaly Training!Kodály Teacher Training Program (OAKE-endorsed)
July 9 - 27, 2012


FACULTY / INSTRUCTORS

The Kodály program faculty at George Mason University enjoy a recognized and respected reputation in the field of Kodály studies:

Robbin Marcus Robbin Marcus

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Robbin Marcus currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia and is the director of the summer Kodaly program at George Mason. Additionally, she teaches in the Kodaly summer course at Webster University, and is an ATI certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. Marcus recently retired after twenty-five years as the lower school music specialist at St. Paul's School in Baltimore, Maryland. She is a well-known traditional dance leader and an advocate for accurate performance styles in the music classroom. She has conducted numerous Kodaly-based workshops at Organization of American Kodaly Educators national conferences and local workshops throughout the country. Marcus served on the faculties of the American Kodaly Institute at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Children's Chorus of Maryland.
Visit Robbin Marcus' personal website: http://www.robbinlmarcus.com/

Ivy Rawlins Ward Ivy Rawlins Ward

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Ivy Rawlins has a diploma from the Kodaly Musical Training Institute. She has taught vocal music in the public schools of Washington, D.C., Boston, Hartford, and Baltimore. As a faculty member of the Kodaly Musical Training Institute, Holy Names College, and the Harrt College of Music she taught methodology, materials, and solfege, and supervised student teachers. She is a co-author of the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill basic series Share the Music and Spotlight on Music. Ivy has given numerous workshops throughout the United States and has been a clinician in Australia and Canada. She specializes in American folk music, especially African American children's songs and singing games.

Vicky Dohrmann Vicki Dohrmann

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Vicki Dohrmann is certified in Orff and Kodaly and completed 3 levels of Choral Music Experience with Doreen Rao in Toronto. She studied at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, and attended Orff workshops in Vienna and Choral Music Institute in London. Dohrmann taught music for 29 years in Jefferson County, Missouri and was the Associate Director of the St. Louis Children's Choir from 1990-1999. She is the Artistic Director of Young Voices Northwest from 2002-present and teaches at the Kodaly Certification Course at Webster University, where she also teaches Elementary Music Methods classes.
Visit Vicki Dohrmann's "Kodaly Klips" website: http://kodalyklips.com/

Susan Garrett Susan Garrett

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Susan Garrett is retired from 23 years as choral director at Lake Forest Middle School in Cleveland, TN and 25 years of playing oboe and English horn in the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera. She now sings in Choral Arts of Chattanooga. Since 1991 she has been on the faculty of the Kodály Institute at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Mrs. Garrett has been active in the Kodály movement since the 1970s and has held local and national offices. She has presented music education workshops at state and national conferences and for teachers in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio, Virginia and Utah. She holds the Kodály Certificate from Capital University in Columbus, OH.