Member Directory
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Ruth Alperson (BA Music, Oberlin College; piano, Emil Danenburg; harpsichord, David Boe.) Eurhythmics classes with Inda Howland at Oberlin inspired Ruth to pursue studies in the discipline, the beginning of a lifelong journey. She studied at the Dalcroze School of Music, New York City, and the Dalcroze Teachers Training Course in London, England. Studies at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze culminated in being awarded the diplôme supérieur. Ruth earned her PhD in arts and humanities at New York University. Ruth’s doctoral dissertation was titled “A Qualitative Study of Dalcroze Eurhythmics Classes for Adults.” She has held the following titles: Dean, the Hoff-Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, NY, Director of Studies of the Dalcroze Teacher Training Program; faculty, the Dalcroze Program at the Diller-Quaile School of Music; member, Scientific Committee of the International Con ference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS); DSA Board of Trustees, member of the governance committee. Ruth taught for many summers at the Dalcroze Institute at Longy, where she learned from brilliant Dalcroze teacher, friend, and mentor Lisa Parker.
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Member since at least 1996
Dalcroze Training
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Diplôme Supérieur1975
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Dalcroze License1974
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1973
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I am an elementary school music teacher in Logan, UT. I also own my own piano studio. I love teaching kids music in creative ways that uses their whole bodies and imaginations.
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Member since 2021
Dalcroze Training
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Level 2
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Level 12020
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Member since 2026
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Member since 2001
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Member since 2025
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Weronika Balewski is a flutist and Dalcroze educator who invites people to experience music as connection and expression. Her work explores listening, creativity, and learning through performing, teaching, and community-building.
A modern and Baroque flutist, Weronika is passionate about chamber music and deep ensemble listening. She performs with pianist Elizabeth Chladil as Marvento Duo and collaborates regularly with flutist Elke Jahns-Harms and the Multiverse Concert Series. A seasoned orchestral musician, she played ten seasons with the Brookline Symphony Orchestra, serving as 2016 Concerto Soloist, and has performed with ensembles including Great Bay Philharmonic, Harvard Baroque Orchestra, and the Boston Early Music Fringe Festival.
Weronika is a teaching artist for Integral Steps, faculty at Concord Conservatory of Music, and a private studio teacher in Waltham, MA. She teaches Dalcroze music & movement classes, flute, and piano to students ages 3 through 80+. She leads workshops, summer camps, and clinics nationwide, including programs in Colorado, Delaware, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Virginia.
A leader in artist-educator community building, Weronika is co-founder and co-host of the international Virtual Dalcroze Meet-Up. She holds degrees in Flute Performance from Carnegie Mellon University (2012) and the Longy School of Music (2014), as well the Certificate in Dalcroze Eurhythmics from Longy (2019). She has presented at the International Congress of the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies, and the Dalcroze Society of America National Conference.
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Member since 2016
Dalcroze Training
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2019
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching private lessons
- Working with students with special needs
- Working with non-musicians
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Member since 1999
Dalcroze Training
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2009
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Level 1
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
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AboutEric Barnhill received his Dalcroze Certificate from the Dalcroze School of New York. He taught Dalcroze and musicianship at the Special Music School at Kaufman Center and the Music Conservatory of Westchester, at the latter of which he was program coordinator. He designed and taught a graduate-level seminar in Dalcroze at Mannes College of Music, gave the first Dalcroze seminar ever at the Curtis Institute, and was invited to present on Dalcroze at the Yale and Bard conservatories. He then went back to school, got a PhD in experimental brain imaging, and now works in Silicon Valley applying artificial intelligence to biomedical signals.
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Member since 2008
Dalcroze Training
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate
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- Teaching K–12 students
- Working with seniors
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William R. Bauer teaches at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where he has served on the full-time music faculty since 2002. This year, he was appointed Music Program Coordinator, having served as director of American Studies for the preceding seven years. Dr. Bauer earned his Dalcroze certificate in 1983 and his Dalcroze license in 1990 in studies with Robert Abramson and Ruth Alperson. As president of the Dalcroze Society of America (2012–2018) and executive director (2018–2020) he worked to bring American Dalcroze teachers together as a professional community. In June 2023, he earned the diplôme supérieur at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva, Switzerland. The research he presents here will appear in the forthcoming book, Mapping Dalcroze.
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Member since at least 1996
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Diplôme Supérieur2022
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Dalcroze License1989
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1982
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
- Teaching private lessons
- Working with seniors
- Working with non-musicians
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Member since 2013
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Level 2
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- Teaching at a college/university
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Member since 2010
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Member since 2005
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Terry Boyarsky is a concert pianist, chamber musician, Dalcroze Eurhythmics teacher, ethnomusicologist and frequent presenter at conferences. She is trained by the Kennedy Center in Arts Integration and is a Teaching Artist for the Ohio Arts Council. She teaches a course in Eastern European Folk Music for CWRU. She sings with Choral Arts Cleveland. Since 2007, Terry has been performing and teaching internationally as “Duo Balalaika” with Siberian balalaika virtuoso Oleg Kruglyakov.
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Dalcroze License1976
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
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Member since 2026
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AboutBA music education, double major in organ and voice, Carroll University 1969.MA, PhD music education, minors in statistics and music theory, Dissertation Title: Key-finding, Fingering, and Timing Tasks in Entry-level Piano Performance of Children, University of Kentucky, 1990Dalcroze Certification, 1972K-5 music teacher 1969-1974, Grafton WisconsinUniversity of Wisconsin/Milwaukee Eurhythmic 1972-1976University of Kentucky, Music and Movement for ages 3 to 5, 1980s and 1990s.University of Kentucky, Eurhythmics, Undergraduate course, 1985. Many workshops for Suzuki and Orff groups.Florentine Opera Chorus, Milwaukee Wisconsin, 1969-1972.Chicago Master Singers Chorus, 2002-2020Special research focus: Piano Pedagogy – presentations about this at International Conference of Dalcroze Studies 1, 2, 3, and 4. Article in Journal of the Dalcroze Society of America.
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Member since 2012
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Dalcroze License1971
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1971
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching private lessons
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Member since 2025
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Rachel Buchman has lived the life of a musician as a teacher, recording artist and performer for over 50 years in the U.S. and internationally. She was certified as a teacher of Dalcroze Eurhythmics by Lisa Parker and was a dedicated student of Anne Farber with whom she shared a love for the upper westside of Manhattan, jazz, and irony. Her Dalcroze education started in high school: she was a devoted student of Dr. Hilda M. Schuster at the Dalcroze School in Manhattan. Upon graduation, Dr. Schuster wrote Rachel a letter saying that she hoped she would become a Dalcroze teacher one day. Rachel is a visiting clinician at the Yale School of Music. Through the lens of Dalcroze principles, she is training graduate students to teach underserved children in the New Haven Public Schools through a Yale program called Music in the School Initiative (MISI). Since 2020 she has taught eurhythmics and singing in Title One schools with the non-profit Hope Stone, Inc. while mentoring Hope Stone’s young teaching artists. Since 2015, Rachel has taught eurhythmics and singing at the School for Young Children, a school for children with language related learning differences. Rachel teaches private piano lessons to children and adults. She rides and trains horses finding connections between her eurhythmic training and her equine experiences. She practices Iyengar Yoga and Zen meditation, fosters rescue animals, gardens, and loves being grandma to twin girls.
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Member since 2005
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2012
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
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AboutAaron Butler is an active musical director, accompanist, and teacher in New York City. He is a specialist in Dalcroze Eurhythmics, a musical director for Mind The Art Entertainment, and is a founding member of Sound Narcissist. He is comfortable in a variety of musical styles—from baroque through contemporary classical, opera, Broadway, and improvisation. Faculty: Lucy Moses School, Bloomingdale School of Music. M.M. (piano), Longy School of Music; Dalcroze Certificate & License, Longy School of Music; Artist’s Diploma, Brandeis University; B.A. (Music and Physics), Amherst College. Piano with Lois Shapiro, Lanfranco Marcelletti; Dalcroze with Lisa parker, Anne Farber, Ruth Alperson; Figured Bass with Frances Conover Fitch, Peter Sykes. More information at aaronplayspiano.com
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Member since 2007
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Dalcroze License2013
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2006
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching private lessons
- Working with non-musicians
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Member since at least 1996
Dalcroze Training
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Dalcroze License1990
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1987
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- Teaching at a college/university
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AboutIrene Claude teaches flute at her studio in Hyde Park as well as at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, Saint Xavier University, St. Giles School in Oak Park, and South Suburban College in Holland, Illinois. She plays substitute flute/piccolo with the New Philharmonic (at College of DuPage). She is also a Music Together teacher for Marsha’s Music. Irene has a Master of Music degree from DePaul University and a Bachelor in Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has completed Suzuki pedagogy studies, and training in Dalcroze, Music Together (Cert Level I), Kodaly, and Orff Schulwerk. She is a member of the American Federation of Musicians, Chicago Flute Club, Music Teachers of Hyde Park, National Flute Association, and Suzuki Association of the Americas.
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Member since 2017
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- Early childhood education
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AboutWriter-Editor Freelance. BIO: Rockhampton Girls Grammar & Emerald High School, Queensland, Australia.Ripon College, Wisconsin (French-Music) Sorbonne, Paris. (Diplome.) Conservatoire d’Auteuil.Orff-Schulwerk Certification- DU, Denver. Misc. — Church Choir Director, Pre School Music, Music Librarian, Broadway Troop – CMF&CMA.
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Member since 2013
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Level 1
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- Teaching K–12 students
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Member since 2026
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Katie Couch holds degrees in music performance and education from the University of Colorado Boulder. She earned the Dalcroze Professional Certificate and License from the Dalcroze School of the Rockies (now the Dalcroze School of Music and Movement). Katie is on the faculty of the Dalcroze School of Music and Movement, where she trains future Dalcroze teachers in improvisation, solfège, and pedagogy. Katie also volunteers for several committees of the Dalcroze Society of America, most notably serving as treasurer, chair of the publications committee, and managing editor of Dalcroze Connections.
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Member since 2013
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Dalcroze License2014
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2012
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching private lessons
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AboutDr. Emily Creedle is committed to making her community a better place as an artist citizen by sharing her joy and passion for the flute and music-making as a performer and teacher. She is an Adjunct Professor of flute at the University of South Carolina Aiken and the Director of the KinderFlute Columbia program through the Carolina Music Studios at USC Columbia. Some of her middle and high school students currently play with the SC Philharmonic Repertory and Youth Orchestra, have made the SC All-State band, and have won competitions at the South Carolina Flute Society Festival and the New Jersey Flute Festival.
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Level 12016
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- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
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Member since 2020
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching at a college/university
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Member since 2020
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching at a college/university
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Member since 2009
Dalcroze Training
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Dalcroze License2000
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1988
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Member since 2025
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Debora is the head of the piano department at Grand Rapids Community College in Grand Rapids Michigan where she teaches piano, class piano, music theory, aural comprehension, and composition. She has also held faculty positions at Manchester University and Iowa State University. An accomplished pianist she has appeared in recitals and concerts throughout the Midwest and in China. Recent performances include a duo-recital in Grand Rapids and solo recitals in Dali, China and Shanghai, China. Two of Debora’s compositions have been premiered at Carnegie Hall. Her works have also been performed internationally, with performances in the great cathedrals of Florence, Assisi, and Lucca, Italy, and in China.
Debora’s recent musical focus has been incorporating movement into her college level theory and aural skills courses. Through that interest she began studying the work of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze. It was in 2018 at a Michigan Music Teachers conference where she met Dr. Mary Dobrea-Grindahl who encouraged her to study the method more formally. Debora began attending summer sessions at the Dalcroze School of Music and Movement where she earned the Dalcroze Professional Certificate in 2024. She is currently working on her Dalcroze Licence at the DSM. Debora now uses Dalcrozian strategies and principles in all of her teaching, both classroom and private studio teaching. She is forever grateful to the amazing faculty at the DSM.
Debora earned the Ph.D. in music composition and the M.M. in Piano Performance from Michigan State University. Her B.A. in piano performance and theory-composition is from Calvin College.
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Member since 2019
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2023
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Level 2
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Level 12017
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Dr. Meagan Dissinger is a National Board Certified Teacher with fifteen years of experience teaching choir, classroom music, and dance to all grades PreK-12 in New York and the Virgin Islands of the US. Meg currently serves as Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Graduate Music and Music Education at Five Towns College. She also served as Adjunct Faculty in Choral Conducting and Music Education at Messiah University. She previously held appointments at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York in Potsdam, Columbia University, and The University of the Virgin Islands. Meg holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education with minors in Dance and Special Education from The Pennsylvania State University, Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from CUNY Hunter College, and a Master’s and Doctorate Degree in Music and Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Member since 2023
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Dr. Jeremy Dittus, Diplôme Supérieur, enjoys a career as a pianist, theorist, and Dalcrozian. He has performed and/or presented Dalcroze master classes throughout the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia. He directs the Dalcroze School of Music & Movement (Dallas, Texas), teaches on the faculty at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, and serves on le Collège de l’Institut Jaques-Dalcroze. The Dalcroze School of Music & Movement (founded in 2010) offers courses for youth ages 4–18, adult enrichment, full-time study toward the Dalcroze Professional Certificate, Dalcroze License, and post-License study. Publications include several journal and book articles, seven volumes of teacher-training textbooks, Embodying Music Vol. I–IV and Moving Sound Vol. I–III, along with ten volumes of DSM youth curriculum: Eurhythmics I and II, Rhythmic-Solfège I–V, and Advanced Dalcroze I–III.
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Member since 2004
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Diplôme Supérieur2009
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Dalcroze License2005
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2004
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
- Working with seniors
- Working with students with special needs
- Working with non-musicians
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Mary Dobrea-Grindahl, diplôme supérieur, is professor emerita at Baldwin Wallace university, where she enjoyed a multifaceted teaching and performing career for over thirty years. As a clinician, her workshops focus on applications of the method to the private studio and using eurhythmics to develop artistry; she also enjoys opportunities to introduce newcomers to the Dalcroze practice. Mary is the coauthor of Developing Musicianship through Aural Skills: A Holistic Approach to Sight Singing and Ear Training (Routledge), which pioneers a unique pedagogical method of teaching ear training and musicianship. Mary is passionate about bringing experiences in the arts to untapped communities and is exploring ways to use eurhythmics to develop reading literacy in children. She is a recipient of the prestigious Strosacker Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the Distinguished Faculty Leadership Award at Baldwin Wallace University.
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Member since at least 1996
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Diplôme Supérieur1986
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Dalcroze License
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate
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- Teaching at a college/university
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Member since 2025
Sharon Dutton
International Member • Georgetown, ON, Canada
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Member since 2009
Dalcroze Training
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate
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AboutLisa Ecklund-Flores holds a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the City University of New York Graduate Center. She received her Dalcroze Teachers License in 1987 from the Dalcroze School of Music in NYC under Dr. Hilda Schuster. A registered music therapist and NYS certified music teacher, Lisa received her Bachelor’s degree from SUNY Fredonia in 1980 and her Master’s degree from Hunter College in 1992. In addition to founding, directing and teaching at Church Street School for Music and Art, Lisa has taught at Greenwich House Music School, Diller-Quaile, Brooklyn College Preparatory Center and The Washington Market School. Lisa is an educational consultant for the Nickelodeon show Blue’s Clues, and is also a professor at Mercy College and a research scientist at New York State Psychiatric Institute.
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Member since 1997
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Dalcroze License1986
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
- Working with seniors
- Working with students with special needs
- Working with non-musicians
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Member since 1998
Dalcroze Training
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1997
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AboutJackie Edwards-Henry, Ph.D., is Professor of piano, piano pedagogy and group piano coordinator at Mississippi State University. Dalcroze training includes Levels 1 and 2, DePaul University, 2003, and update classes, Lucy Moses School, New York City, 2010.
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Member since 2013
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2002
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Level 22002
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Level 12002
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- Teaching at a college/university
- Working with seniors
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Member since 2013
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Level 2
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Level 1
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Member since 2017
Dalcroze Training
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Level 22017
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Level 12016
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching private lessons
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Member since 2005
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Member since 2018
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
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- Working with students with special needs
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Member since 2008
Dalcroze Training
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Dalcroze License1972
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Lori holds a Dalcroze Professional Certificate from the Dalcroze School of the Rockies. She currently teaches after-school Dalcroze classes at Dalcroze Musical Arts. Lori has been a music teacher in both public and private schools and has also taught Dalcroze Eurhythmics at Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, Suzuki workshops, Suzuki summer institutes, public school workshops, local MTA workshops, and musicianship skills to dancers.
In addition to teaching, Lori is also involved with the non-profit organization Dalcroze Society of America as a former Trustee and Board Chair and is currently an officer of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the DSA. In her spare time Lori enjoys many activities like skiing, camping, and photography.
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2018
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Working with seniors
- Working with non-musicians
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Dalcroze License2002
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate
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Rebecca Hample is a classically trained singer, Singing Voice Specialist and Movement Specialist, who has been singing, dancing, and acting on stage, and teaching voice and movement for over 30 years. She has performed and studied in Texas, Utah, California, New York, Boston and Italy. She discovered Dalcroze in NYC in the mid-90’s, and it has rocked her world ever since. Rebecca currently teaches private voice, and group music and movement, and folk dancing to learners of all ages in Austin, TX.
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Member since 2012
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
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AboutLisa Hansen holds a Bachelor’s Degree from CIM, a Master’s Degree from the University of Michigan, and a Performer’s Certificate from NIU. Her main teachers include Kari Gunderson, David Russell, Paul Kantor, and Shmuel Ashkenasi. She has participated in Tanglewood, Spoleto U.S.A./Italy, ENCORE, Sarasota, Colorado, Cascade, and Shira Festival Jerusalem. Solo appearances include the Oregon Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, the Kishwaukee Symphony, the Southeastern Ohio Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra. Lisa joined the Oregon Symphony in 1999. She resigned in 2006 and maintains an active private studio in Portland, OR. She has completed levels 1A/B in progress towards the Dalcroze Certificate, studying with Jeremy Dittus at the Dalcroze School of the Rockies. She is enjoying her journey as a parent to her son and daughter, both violinist/violists.
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AboutI am an educator, composer and performer working in several media
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Member since 2021
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2004
Teaching Specialties
- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
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- Working with students with special needs
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Dalcroze Training
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Dalcroze License2009
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1988
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- Early childhood education
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Voice and Piano Teacher, Singer, Organist, Choir Director
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Member since 2001
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2024
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Level 2
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- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
- Teaching private lessons
- Working with seniors
- Working with non-musicians
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Lauren Hodgson is a Cleveland-based pianist, educator, and PhD student at Case Western Reserve University. Specializing in Dalcroze eurhythmics, she is passionate about creating joyful, movement-based music experiences for students of all ages. Lauren’s teaching experience spans from early childhood programs at The Music Settlement to collegiate instruction at Baldwin Wallace University, Case Western Reserve, and Oberlin College. She also serves on the faculty of the Dalcroze School of Music and Movement. An active researcher and presenter, Lauren regularly presents sessions at state and national conferences and is the current president of the Ohio Chapter of the Dalcroze Society of America.
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Dalcroze License2016
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2014
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AboutDalcroze Certificate, 1999; Dalcroze License, 2001, Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to her studies with Marta Sanchez and Annabelle Joseph at CMU, Ms. Bauer received extensive Dalcroze training in Japan with Toru Sakai and Hiroaki Yoshida, as well as Akihiko Mabuchi and Mari Izumi. After attending Kunitachi High School of Music, she earned her BA in Music Education, Dalcroze Concentration, from Kunitachi College of Music; and her MA in Composition from Western Michigan University. In November 2005, the College Music Society chose her composition Journey for French horn and piano to be premiered at its international conference in Quebec. An accomplished pianist, Ms. Bauer has played piano since she was 3 1/2 years old. In 2010 she joined the staff of the Waldorf School of Princeton, where she has served as the piano accompanist for the past 10 years. She runs a music school in Princeton, NJ, offering piano lessons and Dalcroze classes for children.
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Member since 2012
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Dalcroze License2000
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1998
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
- Teaching private lessons
- Working with non-musicians
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Mimi Hsu is a Dalcroze Eurhythmics Instructor living in New York City. A native of Tainan, Taiwan, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in voice performance with a minor in piano at the Chinese Culture University in Taipei, followed by studies to Dalcroze certification at The New York Dalcroze School, and the License Program at The Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA. Her Dalcroze studies were with Robert Abramson, Dr. Ruth Alperson, Anne Farber, Lisa Parker and Philip Burton. Her extensive teaching includes Avenues The World School NYC, CPSM Queens College, the Diller-Quaile School of Music, Greenwich House Music School, Hoff-Barthelson Music School and The School at Columbia University; Additionally she is quite active as clinician in merging Dalcroze education and Suzuki Method programs throughout United States. She is co-director of the Mind-Body Studies in Performing Arts Festival; She directs children’s opera incorporating Dalcroze principles of music, movement and theater. Her “Da Jia Hao” CD combines music and Mandarin language inspired by movement. She adapted the concept from her CD into Memories of Childhood cross cultural concert in Tainan Taiwan. Her adult Dalcroze workshops have been presented in Beijing Central Conservatory, Tainan University of Technology, The Dalcroze School of the Rockies Summer Dalcroze Academy, Music Education Workshops/Dalcroze Program at DePaul University, Chicago, New York Dalcroze Chapter, Dance Department at Marymount College, and Carnegie Hall “Link Up” & “Ensemble Connect” Education Programs.
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Member since 2004
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Dalcroze License2003
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1998
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Eiko Ishizuka, Diplôme Supérieur, is a Director of The Dalcroze Institute of New England, supported by the Tufts University Community Music Program. Ms. Ishizuka is a faculty member at New England Conservatory’s Preparatory School and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (BYSO), teaching Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and is the chair of the Dalcroze and Early Childhood department at Winchester Community Music School. She is also a faculty member at Longy School of Music of Bard College, and teaches piano to students of all ages and experience levels. She travels to give Dalcroze workshops for musicians and music teachers in Japan, Taiwan and Malaysia, as well as the Dalcroze National Conference (most recently in Cleveland), and the Dalcroze Congress in Geneva, Switzerland.
She is passionate about bringing music and movement to audiences. She has earned the Diplôme Supérieur, the highest credential in Dalcroze training, from the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, Geneva, Switzerland. She also holds a Certificate and License, with distinction, from the Longy School of Music of Bard College, and a Bachelor in Music from Kunitachi College of Music. She is a Member of the Collège de I’institut Jaques-Dalcroze (Advisory Council of the Fondation de I’institut Jaques-Dalcroze).
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Mari Izumi is a music educator based in Los Angeles whose expertise lies in piano pedagogy and Dalcroze Eurhythmics. She earned the Dalcroze Certificate and Dalcroze License under the direction of Dr. Hilda Schuster, at the Dalcroze School of Music in New York. She has presented numerous Dalcroze workshops at California State University, Dominguez Hills, the Music Teachers’ Association of California, and the Dalcroze Society of America. Her Dalcroze Eurhythmics classes have been featured in the Los Angeles Times. Mari has been teaching piano and Dalcroze Eurhythmics at the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles since 1999. She has developed an extensive Dalcroze curriculum at Colburn for students at all levels. In addition to her work with children, Mari offers Dalcroze classes for music educators and has organized professional development workshops led by renowned guest artists.
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AboutJirina Jirickova is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Music Education, Faculty of Education, Charles University in Prague. She teaches at the Prague Conservatory, the Music School of the C.C. of Prague at the same time and is a choirmaster of a Czech children’s choir Jiricky. She is a member of an Executive Committee of the Czech Orff Society and of the Society for Music Education of the Czech Republic. She presents workshops for both children and music teachers in Czechia.
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2009
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Michael Joviala is a composer/improviser/performer and educator in New York City. In 2020, he earned the diplôme supérieur from the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva and is the director of the Dalcroze Teacher Training Program at the Lucy Moses School in New York. He teaches Dalcroze eurhythmics to students of all ages at the Lucy Moses School of Music, the Diller-Quaile School of Music, the Dalcroze School of Music and Movement in Dallas, Texas, and in workshops worldwide. He is the creator and music director of the improvising music and dance ensemble, Locomotors. He has called Brooklyn, New York, home since 1992.
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Diplôme Supérieur2019
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- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
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Level 22018
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Originally from Chicago, Mira Larson started training in cello and dance at an early age. She continued her cello studies at Northwestern University with Hans Jensen (BM, summa cum laude) and the New England Conservatory with Natasha Brofsky (MM). Upon discovering Dalcroze Education, Mira immediately enrolled in the Professional Studies program at the Dalcroze School of the Rockies. She has participated in conventions held by the Dalcroze Society of America (Los Angeles) and the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze (Genève, Switzerland). Mira received her Dalcroze Professional Certificate in 2019 and is currently working towards her Dalcroze License. Her principal mentors are Jeremy Dittus and Laetitia Disseix-Berger.
As a cellist, Mira has performed solo recitals around the Chicago area, appeared with chamber ensembles in Jordan Hall (Boston), Orchestra Hall (Chicago), and Carnegie Hall’s Weill and Zankel Recital Halls, as well as collaborated in contemporary music performances across the country and around the world. Mira currently lives in Salt Lake City, where she teaches at the Gifted Music School, La Maison des Enfants, and her own Rythmique Music School.
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Dalcroze License2022
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2018
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- Early childhood education
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Michelle Li is a pianist and teacher based in Atlanta, Georgia, who holds a Dalcroze certificate. When not at the piano or prancing across the Dalcroze classroom, she can be found behind a camera, tending to her orchids, belting songs on road trips, or hunkered down in the studio with a pile of books.
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Cynthia Lilley earned a Dalcroze certificate and license at the Longy School. She taught at the Diller-Quaile School of Music and at the Special Music School, a public school in Manhattan for musically gifted children. She continues to teach at the Dalcroze School at the Lucy Moses School. Cynthia has been a presenter at many Dalcroze workshops and national conferences, and she has taught summer courses in the Dalcroze approach for music teachers at the Longy School in Cambridge, MA; Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX; the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MO; the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY; and Hunter College in New York, NY. She is a past president of the New York Chapter of the Dalcroze Society of America where she now serves on the Professional Development Committee.
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Dalcroze License1994
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1992
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- Early childhood education
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Cynthia Lilley earned a Dalcroze certificate and license at the Longy School. She taught at the Diller-Quaile School of Music and at the Special Music School, a public school in Manhattan for musically gifted children. She continues to teach at the Dalcroze School at the Lucy Moses School. Cynthia has been a presenter at many Dalcroze workshops and national conferences, and she has taught summer courses in the Dalcroze approach for music teachers at the Longy School in Cambridge, MA; Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX; the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MO; the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY; and Hunter College in New York, NY. She is a past president of the New York Chapter of the Dalcroze Society of America where she now serves on the Professional Development Committee.
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Dalcroze License1994
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1992
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
- Teaching private lessons
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Louise Mathieu
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AboutLouise Mathieu is a Retired Professor of the Faculty of Music of Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, where she taught from 1976 to 2016. Director of Studies of the Dalcroze Society of Canada, she also acts as President of the Collège of the Institute Jaques-Dalcroze (Geneva) and Vice-Chair of the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal Recherche en Éducation Musicale, and is a peer-reviewer for various scientific committees. Besides a musical background (Bachelor of Music Education and Bachelor of Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Université Laval, Quebec; Dalcroze Diplôme supérieur, Institut Jaques- Dalcroze, Geneva; Doctor of Arts, New York University, New York), her experience includes studies in acting, Feldenkrais and Gerda Alexander body awareness. She has directed and choreographed staged works, conducted choirs and instrumental ensembles and composed children’s songs. Dr Mathieu is a frequent lecturer and workshop leader in Canada, Europe, Asia and USA.
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Diplôme Supérieur1975
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AboutCity Music Center Eurhythmics 1989-2017Duquesne University – Eurhythmics for Music Educators 2018 – PresentBlackhawk School District – Choral and General Music, Highland Middle School, grades 6 – 8Bridgewater-Raritan School District, Elementary and Middle School 1980-83South Middleton School District 1979-80Messiah College, B.S. Music EducationCarnegie Mellon University – Dalcroze Certification 1988-1990Duquesne University – MMEd, 1996
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1989
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
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Diplôme Supérieur1997
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Fumi Nishikiori-Nakayama earned her Bachelor of Music in Piano and Harpsichord degree from the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University, and Master of Music in Piano and Early Music/Harpsichord from Indiana University, where she was the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious Rudolph Ganz Memorial Award, and Willi Apel Scholarship. She has studied piano with Ludmila Lazar, Shigeo Neriki, harpsichord with David Schrader, Elisabeth Wright, fortepiano with Elizabeth Wright and Kenneth Drake, chamber music with Rostislav Dubinsky, early chamber music with Stanley Ritchie, and conducting with Thomas Baldner and Imre Pallo.
As a conductor, she has conducted Indiana University Symphony Orchestra, IU Ad-hoc Orchestra, IU Opera Workshops. Her love for vocal music and theater lead her to remain as one of the opera coaches for Indiana University Opera Theater for 6 years.
Currently Ms. Nishikiori is an adjunct faculty member of the Carthage Music Department and teaches for the Carthage Arts Academy. She has received the Dalcroze Certificate from Dr. Robert Abramson at Juilliard School Dalcroze Institute and received the Dalcroze License from Dr. Jeremy Dittus of the Dalcroze School of Music and Movement. She often gives demonstrations and lectures to music teachers and students in the Midwest. She frequently performs as a member of Trio Celeste, and also collaborates with greater Milwaukee and Chicago area artists.
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Stephen Neely, PhD, Dalcroze License, Associate Professor of Music, Director of Graduate Studies, and Director of the Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center at Carnegie Mellon School of Music, is a teacher, conductor, and writer who lectures in the fields of music, design, and pedagogy.
He teaches Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Dalcroze Pedagogy for Carnegie Mellon, having taught every BFA in Music Performance and Composition at the School of Music since 1999. He directed the Opera Workshop and taught Eurhythmics at Pittsburgh’s High School for the Creative and Performing Arts (23 years), served as Chorusmaster for Opera Theater of Pittsburgh (10 years), and was a featured speaker at TEDxCMU 2012.
In addition to his duties at CMU, Stephen is faculty for the Houston Grand Opera Butler Studio Emerging Artist Program, Co-Chair of the International Conference of Dalcroze Studies, co-founder and co-host of the Virtual Dalcroze Meet-up, special faculty for the Tepper School of Business Executive Education team, and an author. His recent book, Make it Music, is an invaluable resource for classroom teachers interested in including more movement activities in their practice.
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Anetta Pasternak (PhD hab, MA in Eurhythmics) works as a professor at the Eurhythmics Specialty, Department of Composition, Conducting, Theory and Music Education at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. Her assignments involve also teaching at Dance Theater Actor Specialty. Anetta is a consultant to the Center for Arts Education in Poland, and member of La Fédération Internationale des Enseignants de Rythmique. She has many years of experience related to the application of Eurhythmics at the early childhood education stage in comprehensive and music schools. Anetta specializes in the interpretation of 20th and 21st century music (Plastique Animée), her artistic oeuvre includes 65 movement interpretations of music and 8 original theater performances presented at home and abroad. She is particularly interested in Dalcroze solfege, as well as the therapeutic aspect of Eurhythmics.
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Diplôme Supérieur
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Member since at least 1996
Dalcroze Training
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2018
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
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Dawn Pratson is an interdisciplinary artist—dancer, choreographer, musician—and educator, with a background in creative arts in therapy. She earned her Dalcroze license and certificate from the Longy School of Music of Bard College under Lisa Parker and Anne Farber. Dawn was on the faculty of the Longy Dalcroze programs from 1997 until 2015, and she was the founding music specialist at the Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School in Philadelphia. Currently, Dawn teaches for the Dalcroze School of Music and Movement, teaches and performs with Michael Joviala in the group “Locomotors,” and serves on the Dalcroze Society of America’s diversity, equity, and inclusion committee.
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Dalcroze License2003
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2003
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- Early childhood education
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Clinton Pratt has BM and MM degrees in Piano Performance and owns a multi-teacher piano studio in Cincinnati Ohio, where he has been teaching for over 22 years. He began his Dalcroze training at Carnegie Mellon’s summer workshop in 2007 and has since attended numerous workshops and training centers. He is currently a Master Teaching Artist with the American Eurhythmics Society and is the President of the Greater Cincinnati Eurhythmics Society. He has given over 50 presentations at local, state, and national music teacher conferences on various topics including Eurhythmics, piano improvisation, composition, performance anxiety, piano pedagogy, and entrepreneurship. Clinton has served on several boards and committees for various music teacher organizations, and was awarded “Teacher of the Year” by the Ohio Music Teachers Association in 2023.
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Member since 2025
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Dalcroze License1976
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Level 12023
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AboutFreelance Harpsichordist. Harpsichordist with NM Sym. Orch., Santa Fe Symphony, NM Philharmonic. Dalcroze teaching in workshops in NM, Tx, Interlochen. Guest Lecturer in Dalcroze at UNM. Currently Dalcroze Instructor at UNM Music Prep School 2021-. Suzuki Piano teacher.
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Member since 2014
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2017
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1977
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Gregory Ristow is director of vocal ensembles and instructor of Eurhythmics at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. In the summers, he teaches for the Dalcroze Institute of New England and the Dalcroze School of Music and Movement’s Dalcroze Academy. He has given numerous workshops on Eurhythmics around the United States and abroad, and is featured in several of the most popular Eurhythmics videos on YouTube. He holds the Dalcroze Certificate from the Juilliard School (Robert Abramson), the Dalcroze License from the Longy School of Music (Anne Farber & Lisa Parker), and is working towards the Diplôme Supérieur at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze. Additionally, his studies with Herb Henke, Marta Sanchez, Stephen Moore, Karin Greenhead, Ruth Alperson, and Louise Mathieu have all deeply impacted his teaching.
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Dalcroze License2003
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AboutChris Rose is a musician and teaching artist from Northeastern Pennsylvania. An avid wanderer, he has performed with orchestras in Italy, Sweden, South Korea, Alaska, and around the United States, and aboard Cunard, Crystal, and Royal Caribbean ocean liners. Recent appearances include Vermont’s Marlboro Music Festival, Colorado’s Jazz Aspen Snowmass Summer Jazz Workshop and New York’s Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. He proudly served as a Teaching Artist for the non-profit Empire State Youth Orchestra and currently teaches Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Brass at Bennington College.
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2022
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AboutPrivate piano teacher
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Member since 2020
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching private lessons
- Working with seniors
- Working with students with special needs
- Working with non-musicians
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Emma Shubin, Dalcroze Eurhythmics • Suzuki Flute • Integrative Education
MM, BM, BA Ecology/Evolutionary Biology, Jazz Cert, Dalcroze License & Certificate
www.emmashubin.com • www.integralsteps.org • www.virtualdalcroze.org
Flutist, Dalcroze, and Suzuki educator Emma Shubin has been joyfully moving to and making music her whole life. Despite her parents’ best efforts to turn her into a violinist, she fell in love with the flute and never looked back. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Integral Steps, a nonprofit dedicated to integrative, multimodal education, where she blends her love of music, movement, improvisation, and ecology to support building community and inspiring students of all ages.
A Wm. S. Haynes Flute Co. Artist and Assistant Principal Flute with the Steamboat Symphony Orchestra, Emma performs internationally and leads workshops, residencies, and masterclasses, sharing her joy for connection through music worldwide.
Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Luxembourg, she researches the integration of movement into instrumental learning. She is passionate about developing early childhood music curriculum, supporting educators through accessible platforms such as The Virtual Dalcroze Meet-Up, and supporting performers at all levels in creating embodied pathways toward artistry. She currently lives in Luxembourg with her husband, daughter, and their two silly pups, and can be found eating croissants and sampling coffee in cafés when she’s not researching, writing, or playing her flute.
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Dalcroze License2013
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2011
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Arthur Simoes is a Brazilian pianist, composer, and educator whose eclectic music blends jazz, classical, video game influences, and his Brazilian heritage. A prizewinner of the 29th European Music Competition “Città di Moncalieri,” he has performed widely across Europe, Latin America, and the United States, and regularly leads lectures, workshops, and master classes internationally. Passionate about music learning, he currently teaches Dalcroze eurhythmics at the New England Conservatory (Boston) and has served on the faculties of Haute École de Musique and the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze (Geneva) alongside guest teaching at major institutions and events worldwide. He also maintains a thriving piano studio in which his lessons integrate elements from Dalcroze eurhythmics and the Taubman Approach. Arthur holds a diploma with concentrations in jazz composition and performance from Berklee College of Music, a bachelor’s in piano and a master’s in music pedagogy from the Haute École de Musique de Genève, and a Diplôme Supérieur of the Dalcroze method.
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Member since 2021
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Diplôme Supérieur2022
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- Teaching at a college/university
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AboutPrimarily I teach piano at the Eastman Community Music School. My first Dalcroze experience was with Inda Howland at Oberlin, 50 years ago! Subsequently I have trained summers in NYC at Lucy Moses School and in PA with Jack Stevenson at the Jaques Dalcroze Institute, where I successfully completed Certificate and Advanced Certificate programs. I have regularly taught Dalcroze classes for youth in the Theory Department of Eastman Community Music School (about 10 years), and I have been a regular guest lecturer in Eastman collegiate classes, as well as in various institutes at the neighboring Hochstein School in Rochester, NY.
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Member since 2004
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate2013
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- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
- Teaching private lessons
- Working with seniors
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John R. Stevenson (Jack) holds the Diplôme Supérieur and the Licence d’Enseignement Jaques-Dalcroze with the first prize in pedagogy from the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva, Switzerland. He also holds a BM in piano from Duquesne University Conservatory of Music. Jack has taught full-time and certified Jaques-Dalcroze educators for over 50 years at institutions such as the Institute Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva, Switzerland; Ithaca College School of Music; Laval University in Quebec; St. Laurence College in Montreal, among others. Jack continues to direct the Music Teacher-Training Program as the Outstanding Educator-in-Residence for the Ministry of Education, Singapore. He also trains teachers at the Institute for Jaques-Dalcroze Education in Bethlehem, Pa, offering the Certificate and License. Jack has authored three Volumes of the text Pursuing A Jaques-Dalcroze Education: Solfège, an interactive ebook available on iBooks. He is currently working on a new text on Plastique Animée.
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Member since 2000
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Diplôme Supérieur1973
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Dalcroze License1972
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1971
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Michelle Tagud-Jara is a music educator with over 11 years of teaching experience in PreK–12, including 7 years as a music subject coordinator in Manila, Philippines. Since 2025, she has taught general music in Reno, NV. She is dedicated to fostering musical literacy, creativity, and cultural awareness and is a member of the Dalcroze Society of America, the Organization of American Kodály Educators, and the Kodály Society of the Philippines.
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Angela Thompson is a violinist and violin instructor with a bachelor’s degree in Violin Performance from the National Conservatory of Peru and extensive training in the Suzuki Method of music education. With 15+ years teaching experience, Angela is passionate about nurturing young musicians and fostering vibrant musical communities.
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Dr. Elda Nelly Treviño
International Member • Monterrey, TX
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Dr. Treviño is a pianist and Dalcroze Eurhythmics (DE) practitioner and researcher. She is a professor and coordinator of Programas Dalcroze at the Universidad Panamericana in México City. Alongside she is a professor at the Facultad de Música of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) in Monterrey, and director of her independent studio “Música Viva”. As active promoter of DE throughout Latinamerica, Elda Nelly frequently serves as guest lecturer, and clinician in DE and piano pedagogy. Up to the present she serves as a member of the publications committee of the Dalcroze Society of America in the US, and as a representative of the FIER in México. In addition, she is active as a collaborative pianist. Dr. Treviño holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Bachelor and Master of Music in Piano Pedagogy from the University of Texas at Austin, Dalcroze Certificate and License from Carnegie Mellon Univeristy.
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Member since 1998
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Dalcroze License2003
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1998
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Melissa Tucker is an inspiring and committed Dalcroze music educator. Dalcroze is at the heart of everything she does as a professional musician. She finds the unique combination of movement, improvisation, dynamic social interaction, and deep study of music to be ingenious and exhilarating. A Dalcroze faculty member at Longy School of Music of Bard College for over 30 years, she is also on the piano faculty of Concord Conservatory of Music and teaches for The Dalcroze Institute of New England. An Oberlin graduate, Melissa earned her Dalcroze Certificate and License from Longy with Lisa Parker and Anne Farber. She studied piano with Lydia Frumkin at Oberlin Conservatory and Natasha Chances at Bates College. Ms. Tucker is currently a Dalcroze Society of America Board Member who serves on the DEI Committee. She has also served as Co-Chair of Longy’s Dalcroze Department, as Secretary of the DSA, and on the DSA’s Professional Development Committee.
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Member since 1999
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Dalcroze License1997
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1987
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- Early childhood education
- Teaching K–12 students
- Teaching at a college/university
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AboutLeslie Purcell Upchurch teaches Dalcroze and Dalcroze based classes for all ages, from toddlers through senior citizens. She holds the Dalcroze License and teaches for both The Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center at Carnegie Mellon University and for the Dalcroze School at Lucy Moses. She maintains a private piano studio where piano improvisation is an integral part of her curriculum. She has a BFA in Piano Performance from Carnegie Mellon University and a Masters of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has a wealth of experience leading workshops for all types of audiences.
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Member since 2004
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Dalcroze License1981
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1975
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Member since 2022
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Level 22018
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Level 12017
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- Teaching K–12 students
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Member since at least 1996
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1992
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- Teaching K–12 students
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Dalcroze Professional Certificate1982
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Aya Yuasa is a piano instructor based in Sunnyside, Queens, NY. Aya holds faculty positions at Mannes School of Music and Lucy Moses School in addition to maintaining her private studio, and serves on the board of the New York chapter of the Dalcroze Society of America.
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Member since 2024
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Level 2
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Level 2
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Level 1
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