2008 Orff Certification Level 1 Workshop

Clinicians: Judith Thomas (core activities and movement) and Laura Koulish (recorder)

Workshop Fee: $575.11 (non-credit) and $875.11 (three graduate credits); $20.00 parking pass

Location: University of South Florida, School of Music FAH 102 (Tampa Campus)

Parking: $20.00 for a 10-day USF Special Event Parking Pass

Registration Information: The Orff Workshop can be taken either for Gradute Credit or not for Graduate Credit. The REGISTRATION DEADLINE for BOTH types of registration is Monday, June 30, 2008. See below for more information:

Registration FOR Graduate Credit: Students interested in three credit hours of Graduate Credit must enroll in MUS 5905, section 001, reference number 54439 for the Summer B session. Registration is through OASIS.

Registration NOT FOR Graduate Credit: Workshop registration, not for Graduate Credit, is through the College of Visual of Performing Arts Box Office. Payment can only be accepted using Visa or Mastercard. Please include the following information on all transactions: Student name, address, email and phone, and indicate that the registration is for the "Orff Workshop - #435". Also include the cardholders name as it appears on the card, the account number, the expiration date, the 3-digit security code, the billing address, and the cardholders signature. Information can be faxed to Joyce Baione at 813-974-2091 or mailed to the CVPA Box Office at, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue - FAH110, Tampa, FL 33620. Contact Joyce Baione (813-974-2091) for more information concerning non-credit registration.

Questions: For more information about the Orff Workshop contact Dr. Carlos Rodriguez rodriguez@arts.usf.edu





Orff Certification Level 1 Workshop July 21 - August 1 Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Clinicians: Judith Thomas (core activities and movement) and Laura Koulish (recorder) Workshop Fee: $575.11 (non-credit) and $875.11 (three graduate credits); $20.00 parking pass Location: University of South Florida, School of Music FAH 102 (Tampa Campus) Parking: $20.00 for a 10-day USF Special Event Parking Pass Registration Information: The Orff Workshop can be taken either for Gradute Credit or not for Graduate Credit. The REGISTRATION DEADLINE for BOTH types of registration is Monday, June 30, 2008. See below for more information: Registration FOR Graduate Credit: Students interested in three credit hours of Graduate Credit must enroll in MUS 5905, section 001, reference number 54439 for the Summer B session. Registration is through OASIS. Registration NOT FOR Graduate Credit: Workshop registration, not for Graduate Credit, is through the College of Visual of Performing Arts Box Office. Payment can only be accepted using Visa or Mastercard. Please include the following information on all transactions: Student name, address, email and phone, and indicate that the registration is for the "Orff Workshop - #435". Also include the cardholders name as it appears on the card, the account number, the expiration date, the 3-digit security code, the billing address, and the cardholders signature. Information can be faxed to Joyce Baione at 813-974-2091 or mailed to the CVPA Box Office at, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue - FAH110, Tampa, FL 33620. Contact Joyce Baione (813-974-2091) for more information concerning non-credit registration. Questions: For more information about the Orff Workshop contact Dr. Carlos Rodriguez rodriguez@arts.usf.edu Judith Thomas
Judith Thomas is an internationally known Orff-Schulwerk music clinician, author, and professor of music education in American, and Canadian universities. After many years at Upper Nyack Elementary in NY teaching Orff Schulwerk and being district Arts Coordinator, she continues to teach Orff Schulwerk Certification Levels classes to graduates, most recently having taught Level I at the Trevor Day Orff Schulwerk Certification program which runs during the academic year, and Level II at West Chester University in Penn., as well as a Master Classes in Orff Schulwerk at Mills College, Oakland, CA and in Canada. She has presented world music and arts integration at UCLA, and as the co-author of “The Word in Play: Language, Music and Movement in the Classroom”, has presented at the annual Yale conference, “Playing for Keeps”. Other publications include “Three to Get Ready”, and “The Raccoon Philosopher”, Schott as well as contributions to the American editions of the three volumes of Music for children, and various articles for the AOSA magazine, “The Echo”, and the MENC Journal of Music Education. She is an honorary member of the American Orff Schulwerk Association, having served as President and Conference Chairperson, and was recently presented the AOSA Distinguished Service Award. Ms. Thomas holds a Masters of Music in piano from the University of Illinois, and a Special Certificate from the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria, where she subsequently co-directed summer workshops in which she also taught. As an author, Ms. Thomas conducts teacher workshops throughout the US independently and for Scott Foresman/Pearson with their new K-8 comprehensive series, “Making Music”. These workshops are based on materials in this series in which concepts of arts integration in education, language, music, and movement are explored and celebrated. She currently resides in Saratoga Springs, NY.
Laura Koulish
Laura Koulish is a music teacher at PS 333 The Museum School, in the Bronx, where she integrates recorder with singing, percussion, movement, and drama. She received a B.A. in music from Oberlin College, an MA in Music Education from NYU and received her Orff certification under Danai Gagné in New York. She has been a recorder instructor in Orff certification courses at the Bloomingdale School of Music and Western Connecticut State College and currently teaches recorder in the Trevor Day Orff Certification Program. Ms. Koulish has taught music education at Stern College (Yeshiva University) and has presented workshops for Orff chapters, teacher organizations and at the 2004 and 2007 National Orff Conferences. Laura has been a cooperating teacher for the New York University education program, supervising student teachers for many years. A co-author of A Seasonal Kaleidoscope and Melodic Weavings, she has also contributed original songs and arrangements to Music and You, Share the Music, and articles for Music K-12 and the Children’s Music Network magazine, Pass it On! Ms. Koulish is a past president of the NYC Orff Chapter.

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Orff Certification Level 1 Workshop July 21 - August 1 Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Orff Certification Level 1 Workshop
July 21 - August 1
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.