Repertoire for Singing and Listening with Historical Background for Upper Grades

Susan Brumfield, Clinician
Saturday, January 24, 2026 from 9:00am - 12:00pm
Available online via Zoom and by Zoom recording

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* The Zoom link will be sent 24-48 hours prior to the workshop. A video recording will be made available to all registered participants for one month following the workshop.
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Dr. Susan Brumfield is Professor of Music Education at Texas Tech University, Artistic Director of The West Texas Children’s Chorus and Academic Director of The West Texas Kodály Initiative. She holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Brumfield is known for her work as a teacher, author, composer and conductor. In frequent demand as a commissioned composer, clinician and guest conductor, she has conducted the ACDA Eastern Division Children’s Honor Choir. She served on the artistic staff of the Pacific International Choral Festival as conductor of the 2019 and 2023 Treble Choral Festival Choirs.

An internationally recognized expert in the Kodály approach, Dr. Brumfield is the author of First, We Sing! Kodály-Inspired Teaching in the Music Classroom, a series of textbooks and song anthologies published by Hal Leonard Music. Dr. Brumfield’s other publications include Hot Peas and Barley-O: Children’s Songs and Games from Scotland, Over the Garden Wall: Children’s Songs and Games from England, and Kentucky Mother Goose, co-authored with American folk legend Jean Ritchie. She is currently working on Giro Giro Tondo: Children’s Songs and Games from Italy and completing several new commissioned choral works.

Dr. Brumfield was honored in both 2012 and 2014 with the Texas Tech University College of Visual and Performing Arts Award for Outstanding Research, and as a two-time finalist for the President’s Book Award.  She is a recipient of the Barnie E. Rushing Jr. Award for Research at Texas Tech University. She was recently honored as the 2025 recipient of the Texas Tech University President’s Excellence in Commercialization Award.

This workshop will be recorded and made available online. 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 2024-25 workshop season, you need not submit another.
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Registration Rates*
- $25 NCAKE/OAKE members
- $30 non-members
- $20 student/retiree
** Reciprocal pricing honored
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