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Chris Judah-Lauder has presented at many conferences, workshops, and level courses all over the country, and has taught in elementary and middle school for more than 25 years. She currently teaches at Good Shepherd Episcopal School in Dallas, Texas. Her college degrees are from Indiana University (B.M.E and M.S.) and she received her Orff Certification at Hamline University.

Michael Chandler
 

Michael Chandler (Orff Schulwerk) is music specialist at Parkway Elementary in Lewisville, TX, where he directs the Parkway Panther Choir and the 5th grade instrumental and movement ensemble, Schulspiel.  In 2005, Schulspiel performed for the Texas Orff Chapters Reception at the annual TMEA clinic/convention in San Antonio. He is the accompanist for the Lewisville ISD Fifth Grade Honor Choir and is a past president of the North Texas Chapter of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA). Michael currently serves as a member of the National Board of AOSA. In 2005, he presented in the Recorder Teacher Training Session at the AOSA National Conference in Birmingham, Alabama. In addition to his teaching in the UNT Orff course, Michael is an instructor in the Orff levels training courses at Southern Methodist University and at the University of St. Thomas.

Joyce Stephansky

Explore moving, singing, instrument playing and creating while focusing on the process of teaching a complete Orff Schulwerk lesson. Using children's literature, poetry, and Keetman's, Music for Children Vol. I.

Kofi

J. S. Kofi Gbolonyo is a Ghanaian Ewe. He grew up in some of the remote villages in Ghana and Togo in West Africa. He is now a PhD Candidate and an Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellow, the Director of the University of Pittsburgh African Music and Dance Ensemble, and a Teaching Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh. Kofi holds a Professional Diploma in Education (Music Education and Ewe Language) from the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana (1997); a BA (Hons.) in Music and Linguistics from the University of Ghana, Legon (2002); an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Pittsburgh (2005); and Orff-Schulwerk Certificate Level I and II from Dominican University of California, San Rafael, CA (San Francisco Orff Course, 2006, 2007).

Carol Erion

After having taught music in the classroom for nearly 30 years, from preschool through high school, Carol Erion now serves as the Arts Education Supervisor for the Arlington (VA) Public Schools. Carol was the founder and the director of the Orff Schulwerk Teacher Training program at George Mason University, where she taught Level III. Carol is a Past President of AOSA and currently serves on the editorial board of the Orff Echo. She is on the national team of professional development presenters for the J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Partners in Education program. With a special interest in the history of Orff Schulwerk, Carol and Peggy McCreary have hosted the Midnight Historical Society at AOSA conferences every year since 1995.

Randy DeLelles & Jeff Kriske

Randy DeLelles taught elementary music for the Clark County School District for 25 years and directed the Orff Certification Program at UNLV for 11 of those years. He is an active workshop presenter throughout the United States and Canada and has made contributions to the McGraw-Hill, Silver Burdette, and Warner Brothers textbook series.

Jeff Kriske is the director of music activities at The Meadows School having taught previously for the Clark County School District where he was named Teacher of the Year in 1984. He is an active workshop presenter throughout the United States and Canada. Jeff is also Co-founder and one of the Directors of the University Children's Chorale.

Randy and Jeff are among the founding members of Nevada's Desert-Valley Chapter of AOSA, both having served on the board for many years. They have co-authored 13 publications and are currently developing GAMEPLAN: an elementary music curriculum for grades one through five.

Victoria Redfearn Cave. 
Victoria graduated from Indiana University in 1993 with a BA in Music Education. She then began teaching music, movement and choral studies to children of all ages at various independent schools in Washington, DC and at the Levine School of Music. She also served as music director for the Washington Opera’s Summer Opera Camp. Victoria completed her Orff Certification at George Mason University and received a scholarship from the Carl Orff Foundation to study music and dance pedagogy at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria in 1999. She is currently a summer faculty member of the Orff-Schulwerk Training Program at George Mason, training other music and movement instructors. Victoria joined the MCS family as a parent and began teaching Music and Movement here in 2004. She also serves as the Co-curriculum Director at MCS.

Doug Goodkin