MUSIC EDUCATOR EXPERIENCE

in cooperation with the

WILBUR D. MILLS EDUCATION COOPERATIVE

SUMMER ARTS INSTITUTE
June 8-12, 2009

This five-day event features renowned music educators, researchers and lecturers Edwin E. Gordon and Natasha Sigmund.

Click this link to download the Music Education Registration PDF file.

Coordinator: Dr. Patricia Cox, cox@harding.edu

FACULTY

Edwin E. Gordon is widely known as a researcher, teacher, author, editor, and lecturer. He and his work have been portrayed nationally on the NBC Today Show, in the New York Times, and in USA Today. Through extensive research, Professor Gordon has made major contributions in the study of music aptitudes, audiation, music learning theory, tonal and rhythm patterns, and music development in infants and very young children. He is the author of six highly regarded music aptitude tests, as well as numerous books, articles, and research monographs.

Before becoming committed to research in the psychology of music, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in string bass performance from the Eastman School of Music. He played string bass with the Gene Krupa band before going on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1958. From 1979 to 1997 Professor Gordon was Carl E. Seashore Professor of Research in Music Education at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he received the school's Lindback and Great Teacher Awards. Prior to that he was Professor of Music at the State University of New York at Buffalo and at the University of Iowa.

In recent years Professor Gordon has been exploring music development with infants from one month to eighteen months old and refining those skills in children from eighteen months to age three. His current research interests focus on investigating the levels of Music Learning Theory, stages and types of audiation, developmental and stabilized music aptitudes, and rhythm in movement and music.

Natasha Sigmund, founder and director of Growing Up With Music, has devoted many years to teaching music to children, including providing music enrichment classes to young families at Temple University Early Childhood Music Foundation program.

In addition to earning the BM in music education from Moscow State Teacher’s University (Russia), the BM in music education and the MM in music education from Temple University, she is a certified teacher trainer for the Gordon Institute of Music Learning and has received Level One and Two Mastership Early Childhood Music from that institution. She also received the Presser Foundation Award for collecting and editing children’s folk music of Russia.

Presently, Natasha is a vocal music director at Rush Intermediate School in Cinnaminson, NJ. She has shared her expertise with parents, undergraduate students, and music educators in the United States and abroad through presentations, workshops, and conferences.