Engaging Their Minds and Welcoming Their Hearts – Orff-Schulwerk and Children’s Choirs, a Natural Integration

Shane Troll, Clinician
Saturday, January 30, 2026, from 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Oak Knoll School
1895 Oak Knoll Ln, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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Join us for another NCAKE and NCAOSA collaboration, as innovative music educator Shane Troll integrates the Orff and Kodály approaches.

Workshop participants will experience our curriculum the way our singers do and discover how students develop exceptional musicianship while absolutely loving choir.

Participants will learn to create dynamic curriculum, implement sight-singing, cultivate age-appropriate vocal technique, and design a successful choir program.

Shane Troll holds a Master of Music in Conducting with honors and undergraduate degrees in Vocal Performance and Music Education from California State University at Chico. He is also a certified instructor from the San Francisco Orff Course with three levels of training. As a recognized and sought-after expert in music education for young singers, Shane has been the featured presenter at ACDA, National Orff, and National Children’s Choir Conferences throughout the United States. Shane’s broad-based teaching history includes roles as an elementary school instructor and entrepreneurial music educator: Before co-founding iSing Silicon Valley in 2013, he served as Associate Artistic Director of the Cantabile Youth Singers for 10 years and as Director of Music at Pinewood School for 15 years. A dynamic leader and an innovator in his approach to elementary music education, Shane is currently working on a book highlighting his strategies for integrating elementary classroom music and choir rehearsal methodologies. Shane is a proud California native, having lived in the San Francisco Bay Area throughout his life.

All in-person participants must print/sign the Media Release Form and return it at the start of the workshop. Paper copies will be available if you forget to bring your signed copy. If you have turned in a copy for the 2025-26 workshop season, you need not submit another.
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Registration Rates*
- $40 NCAKE/OAKE members
- $65 non-members
- $0 student/retiree
** Reciprocal pricing honored
Contact info@NCAKE.org if you are interested in attending but would like assistance with the registration fee.

Your support allows NCAKE to provide financial support for other initiatives (i.e., providing assistance for book club materials and scholarships for continuing education).

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