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Find a Dalcroze Educator

The Dalcroze Professional Directory is the largest listing of Dalcroze educators in the USA, featuring credentials from qualified training programs. Find and contact qualified members of our community to study or explore Dalcroze education.

What’s the difference between the Dalcroze certificate, license, and diplôme supérieur?

These levels indicate the depth of Dalcroze teacher training completed:

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate: Qualified to teach introductory courses in Dalcroze education to students of any age, up to an early-intermediate level
  • Dalcroze License: Qualified to teach students of all levels in eurhythmics, solfège, improvisation, plastique animée, and pedagogy
  • Diplôme Supérieur: Representatives of the Dalcroze method; authorized to grant Dalcroze credentials and direct Dalcroze teacher-training programs

For more information, read our page on Dalcroze Credentials.

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Please note this data is self-reported and provided for reference only. We encourage you to confirm an individual’s Dalcroze credentials.

Dr. Ruth Alperson

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Diplôme Supérieur
    1975
  • Dalcroze License
    1974
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1973

Todd Anderson

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2013
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2012

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons

Adriana Ausch-Simmel

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    Adriana Ausch enjoys a career as a singer and Dalcroze Eurhythmics teaching artist. As cross-style singer she has performed solo and chamber programs and presented Dalcroze workshops in Boston, New York, Toronto, Hangzhou (China) and Bucharest (Romania).  She currently teaches as Dalcroze Eurhythmics faculty at Longy School of Music of Bard College, where she created several Dalcroze courses for graduate and undergraduate students: Eurhythmics Lab, Plastique Animée, Improvisation for Singers, Music and Architecture and Cabaret. Adriana Ausch is the founder and president of the New England Dalcroze Chapter in Boston since 2011 and was the Chair of the Dalcroze Eurhythmics department at the Winchester Community Music School in Winchester, MA from 2006 until 2024. Adriana Ausch earned the MM, Certification and License in Dalcroze Eurhythmics at Longy School of Music. She completed her MM in Vocal Performance at Longy. Previously she earned an MM in architecture and was active as in architect in Romania and Germany.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2000
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1999

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with seniors

Weronika Balewski

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2019

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with students with special needs

Jared Ballance

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    Jared Ballance is a dedicated teacher in many fields. He has studied, performed, and taught extensively on five instruments, and holds performance and pedagogy degrees from Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music and the internationally recognized Dalcroze License from Carnegie Mellon University and the Dalcroze Certificate from Juilliard. He studied cello with Richard Aaron, Desmond Hoebig, and Alan Harris, viola with Jeffery Irvine, plus studies in violin, piano, and viola da gamba. He has performed chamber music with members of the Cleveland Orchestra, was the cellist of the Samford String Quartet, and the Brandywine Trio, and currently performs as a member of the Ballance Duo.Dr. Ballance is co-director of Ballance Talent Education. He has taught cello at ENCORE School for Strings, the University of Rochester, Samford University, Oakwood University, and given master classes at Andrews University, the Eastman School of Music, and at cello workshops.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2017
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2006

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university

Laura Barnet

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2009
  • Level 2
  • Level 1

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching private lessons

Eric Barnhill

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    Eric 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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Working with seniors
  • Working with students with special needs

Megan Bauer

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    Megan Bauer is a violin teacher and performer in Evanston, IL. She graduated from Oberlin Conservatory in 2004 with a degree in Violin Performance and founded her own violin program in 2006.  Megan began training in the Dalcroze Method with Jeremy Dittus in 2015 and earned her Dalcroze Certificate from the Dalcroze School of the Rockies in 2020; she currently is working on completing her Dalcroze License.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2019

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with seniors

William R. Bauer

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Diplôme Supérieur
    2022
  • Dalcroze License
    1989
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1982

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with seniors

Terry Boyarsky

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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 Training

  • Dalcroze License
    1976
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Working with seniors
  • Working with students with special needs

Thomas Brotz

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    BA 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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    1971
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1971

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching private lessons

Rachel Buchman

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2012

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Working with students with special needs

Aaron Butler

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    Aaron 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

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2013
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2006

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching private lessons

Timothy Caldwell

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    1990
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1987

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching at a college/university

Clelia Cavallaro-McKeon

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1988

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with seniors

Patrick Cerria

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    Patrick Cerria earned a dual BA in music and the humanities from William Paterson University in New Jersey. He was awarded the Dalcroze Elementary Certificate from The Juilliard School. In 2019 he was accepted into the Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center at Carnegie Mellon University to begin his Licensure work.Patrick has spent the last fifteen years teaching varied populations of students — including a self contained school for autistic children, and another for students with physical and/or developmental disabilities. He has also worked extensively in urban education teaching grades kindergarten through high school. This includes two alternative high schools for inner-city students: one for students classified as at-risk, and the second for students with behavioral classifications.Patrick also provides staff development workshops to educators and administrators to help create movement based classroom management strategies so they can better accommodate the varied learners they must now teach.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2006

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Working with students with special needs

Jing Chang

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2020
  • Level 2
    2020

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons

KuanTing Chang

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2024
  • Level 2
    2022
  • Level 1
    2021

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons

Angie Clemens

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    Elementary general music teacher since 1991, currently teaching in Rockingham County (VA) public schools, BA Goshen (IN) College, MA James Madison University (VA), Level 1 Orff, Level 1 WMD, Dalcroze

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2015
  • Level 2
    2015
  • Level 1
    2014

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching K–12 students

Milene Cristine Corso Zottarelli

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    Milene Corso was born in Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil. She studied piano at The Rio Claro Conservatory, holds a degree in Architecture from University of São Paulo (USP), in Music (Voice) from University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and is a Dalcroze Certified Instructor from the Dalcroze School at Lucy Moses School, in NYC. As musical director and arranger for “Madrigal CorDaVoz”, she led this outstanding vocal choir in promoting a series of special concerts featuring its one-of-a-kind performances in Brazil. In the US, Milene has studied vocal improvisation with ‘scat-master’ Bob Stoloff, and the Dalcroze Eurhythmics method at Longy School of Music, in Cambridge, MA, at the Dalcroze School at Lucy Moses (Kaufman Center), at Diller-Quaile School of Music, in New York, NY and at Hoff-Barthelson Music School, in Scarsdale, NY. She was also a member of the Riverside Choral Society, in NYC and has performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center (Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall) and other venues with this group.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students

Katie Couch

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2014
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2012

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching private lessons

Caron Daley

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    Caron Daley is Director of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor of Music at the Mary Pappert School of Music at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she has held past conducting appointments with the University of Toronto, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, National Youth Choir of Canada, Salem Academy and College, and St. Michael’s Choir School. A certified Dalcroze Eurhythmics teacher, Caron frequently lectures on the sound-gesture relationship and is published in Anacrusis, Canadian Music Educator, Research Memorandum Series of Chorus America, Teaching Music through Performance in Choir Vol. 4 and Vol. 5, Choral Journal, Journal of Singing, and The Choral Scholar. Her book, The Eurhythmic Conductor: Dalcroze Applications to Score Study, Gesture, Rehearsal Technique, and Conducting Pedagogy, is under contract with GIA Publications.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2010
  • Level 2
    2009
  • Level 1
    2007

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching at a college/university

Christopher Della Pietra

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2000
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1988

Debora DeWitt

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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.

     

     

     

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2023
  • Level 2
  • Level 1
    2017

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching at a college/university

Jeremy Dittus

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Diplôme Supérieur
    2009
  • Dalcroze License
    2005
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2004

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Working with seniors
  • Working with students with special needs

Mary Dobrea-Grindahl

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Diplôme Supérieur
    1986
  • Dalcroze License
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching at a college/university

Lisa Ecklund-Flores

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    Lisa 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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    1986
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Working with seniors
  • Working with students with special needs

Jackie Edwards-Henry

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    Jackie 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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2002
  • Level 2
    2002
  • Level 1
    2002

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Working with seniors

Lori Forden

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2018
  • Level 2
  • Level 1

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Working with seniors

David Gordon

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    David Gordon began his music career at the age of 8 playing the violin under the tutelage of master teacher, Samuel Applebaum. When he was 12, he began to play the drums and guitar, and by the time he was in high school had added the piano and organ to his array of instruments. During the late 60’s, he played the drums and keyboards, as well as vocals, with the pop group: The Blades of Grass. They recorded an album, which included their Top 40 Hit: Happy, and released other singles along with the title song from the film: I Love You, Alice B. Toklas. David appeared on several television shows such as Shindig, The Joe Franklin Show, and toured with Neil Diamond, The Doors, The Dave Clark Five, as well as performing backup work for Van Morrison and the Fifth Dimension. David has performed his original songs on various television shows, New York City cabarets and nightclubs, the Jewish Renaissance Festival, and college campuses.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1994

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students

Sharon Gratto

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    Sharon Davis Gratto is Professor of Music, Graul Endowed Chair in Arts and Languages, Director of the World Music Choir and past Department of Music Chair at the University of Dayton (UD) in Ohio, where she directs the World Music Choir. Most of her K-12 music teaching has been in Department of Defense and American International Schools in Germany, Spain, and Nigeria. She is the Editor of a new Global Music Series for Pavane Publishing. Dr. Gratto is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory, American University, SUNY-Potsdam, and Catholic University and earned the Certificate in Dalcroze Eurhythmics from Carnegie Mellon University. She received Oberlin Conservatory’s Music Education Alumni Award and University of Dayton Service Awards from the College of Arts and Sciences and the whole University.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2007

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching at a college/university

Gretta Harley

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    I am an educator, composer and performer working in several media

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2004

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with students with special needs

Sean Hartley

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2009
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1988

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students

Loretta Haskell

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    Voice and Piano Teacher, Singer, Organist, Choir Director

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2024
  • Level 2
  • Level 1

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with seniors

Lauren Hodgson

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2016
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2014

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching private lessons

Fumiko Honda

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    Dalcroze 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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2000
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1998

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  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons

Joy Hughes

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    Joy Hughes teaches elementary music at Christ Church Episcopal School in Greenville, SC.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2002

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  • Teaching K–12 students

Miyuki Iketani

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2013

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with students with special needs

Reiko Ito

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    Hold Dalcroze Teacher Certificate.Many years’ experiences of teaching Dalcroze classes.

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  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1973

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  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with seniors
  • Working with students with special needs

Mari Izumi

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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.


     

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    1990
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1989

Xing Jin

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  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2016

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  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching private lessons

Michael Joviala

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Diplôme Supérieur
    2019
  • Dalcroze License
    2006
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1999

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  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons

Rosa Kim

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Working with seniors

Yukiko Konishi

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1997

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with students with special needs

Mira Larson

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2022
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2018

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  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching private lessons

Eunjin Lee

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2016

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons

Cynthia Lilley

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    1994
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1992

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  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons

Louise Mathieu

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    Louise 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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Diplôme Supérieur
    1975

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  • Teaching at a college/university

Jayne McDonald

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    City 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

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1989

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university

Skye McManus

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    Ms. McManus is the Director of Musicianship and Voice at Orpheus Academy of Music. She applies Dalcrozian principles to these areas as well as during movement and choral summer camps. She is on the board of the American Eurhythmics Society (AES) and has her Certificate from AES.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2014

Teaching Specialties

  • Working with students with special needs

Twila Miller

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1999

Teaching Specialties

  • Working with students with special needs

Anthony Molinaro

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    As an music educator, instrumentalist, podcaster, and producer, Anthony Molinaro has always kept the Dalcroze approach as a central approach to his musicianship. With over 14 years in public school practice, Anthony has created a Dalcroze classroom in the public school district of Grove City, Pennsylvania. He is also a faculty member and Eurhythmics instructor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, as well as the Eurhythmics specialist for the Pittsburgh Youth Chorus and Sing Sing Sing music academy, and serves as the Board-Chair of the DSA. He is also the co-host and producer of The New Dalcrozian podcast. As a frequent participant and presenter at the Carnegie Mellon University Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center, Anthony is currently pursuing license level certification.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2018

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students

Jamai E. Moltzahn

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    Jamai Moltzahn has been teaching music for 25 years. She has an Elementary Dalcroze Eurhythmics Certificate from the Juilliard School, a Bachelor’s of Arts with a Music major (University of Alberta), a Masters of Education (University of Calgary) in Elementary Education, Suzuki Prenatal and Early Childhood Music Certificate (Calgary Institute), Kodaly Level 1 (University of Calgary), and has attended several Orff and English handbell workshops. Jamai has also taken studies in social justice and Indigenous studies in music. Jamai has taught at her home studio, Mount Royal Suzuki Summer Institute, Yukon College Summer, and the Esther Honens school outreach program. She is currently teaching at the Calgary Board of Education as a music specialist online and in school. She plays the piano, recorder, ukulele, Cuban percussion, and is learning to play the guitar. She has two children, Jordan and Greyson who both love music.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2006

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students

Alice Robin Mosley

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    Elementary Music Teacher, piano/violin/viola/Dalcroze Certificate

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1995

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Working with students with special needs

Fumi Nakayama

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate

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  • Teaching at a college/university

Laura Ono

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2014

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching private lessons

Natalie Ozeas

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university

Molly Porterfield

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2018

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons

Dawn Pratson

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2003
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2003

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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

Jaime Rea

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2007

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching K–12 students

Terri Reck

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    Freelance 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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2017

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university

Yoriko Richman

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    1985
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1984

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Working with seniors

Gregory Ristow

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2003
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1999

Iramar Eustachio Rodrigues

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    Iramar earned a diploma in piano pedagogy in Brazil in 1964 and a diploma in music education at the University of Chile in 1969. In 1975, he obtained a master’s degree at the Institut Jaques Dalcroze in Geneva, Switzerland, where he was given an award for pedagogy. In 1975, he obtained a diplôme in harpsichord at the Conservatory of Geneva. From 1976 to 1986 he was the vice president of the FIER. From 1975 to the present Iramar collaborates permanently in Dalcroze training programs in Chile, Spain, Italy, France, and Switzerland. From 2003 to 2018, he was frequently invited to give master courses throughout México. He is now a professor in the seniors program at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze in Geneva.

Dalcroze Training

  • Diplôme Supérieur
  • Dalcroze License
    1974

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with seniors

Chris Rose

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    Chris 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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2022

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching at a college/university

Ted Rosenberger

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    1995
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate

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  • Early childhood education

Randall Sheets

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    In my work as organist-music director of Spring Hill Presbyterian Church, and as adjunct instructor of organ and assistant conductor/pianist with the University Chorale at the University of South Alabama, I integrate Dalcroze philosophy and techniques into my music-making, conducting, and teaching. I offer short-term classes in eurhythmics

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Working with seniors

Marilyn Shenenberger

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    I have used Dalcroze techniques primarily in working with handbell choirs and vocal choirs.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1998

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Working with seniors

Emma Shubin

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    Emma Shubin, Dalcroze Eurhythmics • Suzuki Flute • Integrative Education

    ​MM, ​B​M, 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. 

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2013
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2011

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with seniors
  • Working with students with special needs

Arthur Simoes

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Diplôme Supérieur
    2022

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Working with seniors

Howard Spindler

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    Primarily 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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2013

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with seniors

Melissa Tucker

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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.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    1997
  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1987

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Working with seniors

Karen Williams

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1992

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching K–12 students

Marie Willis

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    I had a 10 yr career as a Registered Music Therapist (UK and NZ) immediately following my Dalcroze Certificate Training (UK). I also worked briefly as a Specialist Tutor of Performing Arts, and as a contracted and private music tutor of wind and piano. In all of these roles, my ‘Dalcroze hat’ was/is always on! I have taught 1 year of Dalcroze Eurhythmics classes to young children, and have facilitated workshops in NZ for music educators, however, my main work currently involves incorporating the Dalcroze approach into instrumental teaching. I am seeking to build connections with any Dalcroze practitioners I can find in NZ. I connect regularly with the Orff and Kodaly groups here, and with Dalcroze Australia as my colleague support in active approaches to music education.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    2004

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Working with students with special needs

Marlene Yeni-Maitland

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    Biography: Ms. Marlene Yeni-Maitland extensive professional teaching experiences include pre-school through graduate school. She will begin her tenth year teaching inner city general music, K-5, in Trenton NJ. She conducts a string program supported by a VH-1 grant, and performs frequently with her 25 student glockenspiel ensemble.In addition to her teaching experience Ms. Maitland has been a clinician in various conferences and workshops which include the 2018 National Dalcroze Conference, the 2019 NJMEA State Conference, the music department in Trenton, NJ, the Montessori Annual Conferences, the ECMMA Eastern Division Conference, and guest lecturer at Rutgers University for the Nutritional Science Pre-School.After receiving her MME from Westminster Choir College, Princeton New Jersey, Ms. Maitland joined the Conservatory piano faculty at WCC for ten years.She maintains a private piano studio for all ages and coaches students for college entrance auditions.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate

Teaching Specialties

  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university

Deborah Young

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    Dalcroze Cert II for instrumental teachers 1977 Elizabeth Vanderspar, AGSM Guildhall School of Music 79 BMusEd 1995 I am about to certify in the Alexander Technique. Private studio for Violin and Piano lessons. I don’t know how my Dalcroze training compares with the current US training. I was weak on improv and heavy on rhythmics.

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1976

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching private lessons

Pamela Young

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Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze Professional Certificate
    1985

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  • Teaching K–12 students

Francely Zurita

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    Francely, originally from Monterrey, Mexico, started music studies at a young age, at the Conservatory of the University of Montemorelos, in Mexico. Since that time she has studied the flute as her principal instrument, having also learned piano. In 2004, Francely began studying for her Bachelor of Arts in Flute Performance at the Autonome University of Nuevo Leon (UANL). After finishing her studies, she further perfected her flute skills at the National School of Music of Villeurbanne in Lyon, France, under the instruction of Sophie Dufeutrelle. While in France, Francely earned a Diploma of Musical Studies, the highest diploma given by regional French conservatories.It was while studying in France that Francely began playing the Traverso (baroque flute), which led her to be accepted at the Early Musique Department of the Haute Ecole de musique de Genève, in Switzerland. At this institution she was able to learn special techniques for the Traverso, under the instruction of Serge Saitta, focusing on th

Dalcroze Training

  • Dalcroze License
    2018

Teaching Specialties

  • Early childhood education
  • Teaching K–12 students
  • Teaching at a college/university
  • Teaching private lessons
  • Working with seniors