Northern California Association of Kodály Educators
2025-2026 Workshop Season
Please check below for upcoming workshops, events, and bundle offerings!
Repertoire for Singing and Listening with Historical Background for Upper Grades
In collaboration with SNAKE and UFOLKS, NCAKE is proud to offer a virtual workshop with Dr. Susan Brumfield!
Please check back soon to find out more, or join our newsletter here to stay in the loop.
Dr. Susan Brumfield, Clinician
Saturday, January 24, 2026, from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Online via Zoom, and by Zoom recording
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.
Questions? Please reach out to us at: info@NCAKE.org.
#NCAKE #OAKE #IKS #Kodaly #Music #Education
Choral Classroom Refresher
In collaboration with NCAOSA, NCAKE is proud to offer an in-person workshop with Matthew Otto!
Do you lead your school choir? Are you looking to learn innovative and successful repertoire, improve your conducting, and learn more about vocal pedagogy in the choral setting? Join Dr. Matthew Otto from the Young Women’s Choral Projects in this refresher to add valuable skills to your conductor’s toolbox.
Matthew Otto, Clinician
Saturday, January 31, 2026, from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
San Francisco School 300 Gaven St, San Francisco, CA 94134
To join OAKE and NCAKE, use the membership application on the OAKE web site.
Be sure to choose NCAKE for your chapter affiliation.
Reciprocal pricing honored for NCOASA members.