Music Educators' Marketplace was created in 1998 as a cooperative venture of six music teachers in order to divide the costs and share the benefits of targeted nationwide advertising of their self-published music education teaching aids.  Since then nearly fifty Marketers have marketed nearly 200 products through us, and MEM has gained a reputation for offering unique, quality products and personal service. In addition to an online store, we offer blogs, teaching hints, many useful links, and free resources.

Meet Our People

Julie Albright & VIncent Fago	Kay S. Hooper	Sally Ritchie & Sharon Ragner
	Gaye Rumsey-Riggs	Bonnie Slaughter
Jane Calder	Thelma Johnson	Jane Singhal & Daria Kingman
Suzanne Fauser	Leonice Thompson Kidd	Brad Thompson
Brenda Freed	Dennis Kobray	Judith Wade
Eleonora Gabay & Larisa Pavlova	Karen Koch	Lisa Wehrly
	Renee Lacey	Christine Wolf
Suzanne Guy		Evelyn Westwood
Cathy Williams Hargrave		Carolyn Inabinet
Karen Harrington	Barbara Rader	Katherine Faricy, James Callahan

 

Julie Albright, Author, and Vincent Fago, Illustrator, began working gether in 1991 to create the Rabbit-Man’s Music Book Series.

JULIE ALBRIGHT has been teaching piano to children and adults for over twenty years. She has learned to recognize the fine line between Hard and Too Hard for a student. Something that is Hard can be a stimulating challenge for the learner, whereas something that is Too Hard brings discouragement and a feeling of defeat.  

Her materials and games bring the Too Hard things back into the realm of the merely Hard. When she started working with Vincent Fago, they discovered that her music games and his rabbits were an unbeatable combination.

Ms. Albright has a BA in music from Western Reserve University and did graduate work at the University of Minnesota, and ever since those student days has been active in both the musical and theatrical fields. For Ms. Albright the Music Forest full of rabbits is an ever changing theater production on paper, giving her a wonderful opportunity to use games and activities to help students enjoy the challenges and steer clear of the possible defeats of learning about music.

VINCENT FAGO’s long career in the arts began as an animator for Fleischer Paramount Studios where he worked on Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons and two full length feature films. His long association with rabbits began when he wrote and illustrated Peter Rabbit as a half page Sunday cartoon strip at the New York Herald Tribune for many years. This was syndicated to newspapers in the U.S. and internationally,.

Although other characters and work intervened, including writing and illustrating children’s books for Golden Press, a book of his own whimsical poems and illustrations, Zhin or Zhen, published by Charles Tuttle and Co., and the production of over a hundred illustrated literary classics for the Pendulum Press Illustrated Classics Series, Mr. Fago went back to one of his early loves in developing the graphics and illustrations for the Rabbit-Man’s Music Books Series.  Rabbit-Man will live on, dessuzpite Vincent Fago's death from cancer in June 2002.

PRODUCTS:  Rabbit-Man Music Book Series, Rabbit-Man Music Math Game

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Jane Calder: 

Degree: BA in English and Music from Brigham Young University Provo, Utah

Accomplishments: A nice husband, four bright, compassionate children and seven even brighter, wonderful, musical grandchildren. (My 3-year old grandson Harrison announced at 2 ½ that the Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah " is my favorite song"!)

Experience: Fifty-plus years as a piano teacher and as an accompanist: from church organist to dance bands and very classy string trios. For twenty years I have been the accompanist for the Schubert Singers, and I also play for a small group from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Friends Through Music.

Nearly all of my games and teaching aids started out in a home-made form in my studio as I taught my students about music history, key signatures, musical terms and counting. I have discovered that you can teach a child almost anything if you turn it into a game.

Website:  http://www.makingmusicfun.com

Products: Scales & Stuff book, What's That Note 1 & 2, Composers Game, Key Signatures Game, Keys Game, Christmas Song Fake Book, Folk Song Fake Book, Clap & Count A & B, Note Tappers, Musical Terms Game; Music Symbols Game, Win A Star Game

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Suzanne Fauser received her bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1991 after spending much of her childhood and free time in front of a piano keyboard.  Ten years into her engineering career, she oped out of corporate America and started a piano studio in her home.  One of her passions in teaching piano is offering students as much musicology as she can, sneaking tidbits into lesson time whenever possible, in the hopes that her students will leave her studio with a broad appreciation for music—not just the rigor it takes to be a fine pianist.

In these days where the study of music is in constant competition with sports, Scouts, and other valued activities, Suzanne believes that time in her studio should be something her students look forward to.  She has developed several games that reinforce theory and execution (and musicology too) which augment her studio curriculum.  Her own company, How ‘Bout it LLC,  is the outlet through which she is sharing these ideas and tools with other teachers and families. Her website is www.HBIGames.com

Professionally Suzanne is involved with her local chapter of MTNA, the Wisconsin Music teachers Association – Greater Milwaukee Chapter.  She is currently serving as a Co-vice President of the organization.

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Products: Maestro! Music Game, Maestr!o Camp Plan, Maestro! Work Sheets

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Brenda Freed graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in Music Education and Music Therapy in 1980 (completing her Masters in 1992). In 1980, she taught K-12 vocal music and general music classes in rural Iowa. During this time, she revived a music program that had been inactive by producing two grade-school musicals, spring and winter concerts for choirs grades 1-12, and took the high school choir members to large and small group contests where they did very well.   In 1982, she left public school teaching to start working as a music therapist at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

In 1990, up to her ears in U of IA academia and music therapy, she left Iowa on a bicycle and pedaled 9,000 miles, touring Ontario and Nova Scotia, Canada and the East Coast and Southern U.S. before coming to a halt in Luckenbach, Texas in 1991. She decided to stay in Texas one year to work, save money, write songs and pursue performing in Austin all while finishing her thesis for her MA in Music Education/Music Therapy, and then continue on the bike trip at the end of that year.   She did everything she planned EXCEPT save money and pedal out of Texas.   It was the end of the bicycle trip and the start of Brenda's career as a singer/songwriter.

Since that time, while pursuing her music career, Brenda has been teaching guitar, piano and voice privately from her Creative Endeavors studio in the Texas Hill Country. She is a musician who wears many hats reflecting her many interests.   Her hats include performance, teaching, music therapy, songwriting, publishing, recording and philanthropy.

Brenda has performed in concert halls, small auditoriums, festivals, house concerts, churches, bookstores, retirement homes, pubs and bars, indoors, outdoors, and under any kind of conditions from freezing and raining to humid and muggy to the beautiful breezy open air festivals of England. Her vocal versatility and her eclectic taste in music have made Brenda's music difficult to categorize because she also writes music in a variety of styles.  However, the common thread throughout her music is her strong voice that has an incredible range and is clear as a bell, no matter the style of the song.   

Brenda is married and is a pet lover, including Jumper and Sammy kitties and T-Birdy dog.

www.brendafreed.com
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Products: Effortless Music Measure Reading Cards, Effortless Singing Course

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Eleonora Gabay A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Eleonora Gabay holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Cinema Engineering and Teacher’s Certificate from the Pedagogical University. She also graduated from St . Petersburg Academy of Art. She has worked as an engineer, teacher, and lecturer for the teachers and has 6 papers in educational and scientific journals. In the 5 years before her departure from Russia, she supervised the laboratory of new methods in the Teachers’ Development Institute, held training seminars and workshops for teachers, and coordinated International Programs for teachers from East Europe. Hreer extensive engineering and teaching experiences have allowed her to create her own course "Engineering methods in education" and to develop a new teaching tool " Feedback Cards". Using the color as the best informational signal, these cards provide immediate feedback on how well a class or group understands the material taught.. In 1986 this system won a prize in the All-Union contest for innovative instructional materials. Since 1991 Mrs. Gabay has worked to adapt her feedback cards to the American educational system. Through long-term research and much testing, she has invented new kind of workbook that is interactive, "hands-on", self-checkable, game-like, and reusable. Her first products for the American market were the BASIColoRIDE Workbooks for Basic Skills reinforcement. In 2000, using the same format and technique, Mrs. Gabay and music educator Larisa Pavlova created MUSIColoRIDE workbook. This book, which has been widely tested on young children, have shown the remarkable results – children ask to work with MUSIColoRIDE workbook again and again. Personal: Eleonora Gabay is married to Natan Kogan, Doctor of Science in pharmaceutical chemistry. Natan is currently working in the field of biotechnology and is a Research Assistant Professor at New York University, School of Medicine. They have one son Leon and two grandchildren Victor and Dina. Ms. Gabay's Website:  www.coloride.com Products: Musicoloride Matching Cards, Musicoloride Workbook Game, Musicoloride Workbook Game Do Re Mi version Larisa Pavlova Larisa Pavlova worked with Eleonora Gabay and  holds Master’s degrees in piano and theory of music from N. Rimski-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia. Teaching in St. Petersburg College of Art for more than a quarter of a century, Mrs. Pavlova established herself as a leading piano teacher of the city. Her students have won many local and state auditions and competitions. Currently she is working at Woodbridge Academy of Music in New Jersey as a piano teacher and a performing pianist for the best violin, cello, flute and vocal students in the area. Many of her students have received high honors form NJ Music Teacher Association. As a specialist in the music education of children, Mrs. Pavlova has earned an enviable reputation for her work among teachers and students in NJ and is recognized as one of the leading teacher of Woodbridge Academy of Music. Personal: Larisa Pavlova is married and has one daughter Masha Sorin. Masha is an author of songs lyrics. Masha was graduated from St. Petersburg Academy of Music. She holds a master’s degree in biomedical science and is currently working on her Ph.D. degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY.

 

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Suzanne Guy: Although in great demand nationally as a clinician and teacher of teachers, Suzanne Guy remains devoted to her private piano students. In her Annandale, Virginia studio, she taught more than 30 school-age students of all stages (and at all hours), individually and in group musicianship labs.

After 23 year in the Washington C.D. area, Suzanne and her husband, Louis, have relocated to Norfolk, Virginia. Suzanne's piano-playing Schnauzer (Treble) has introduced her to several new students in the neighborhood. They came to play with the dog, noticed all the pianos, and signed up for lessons!

The hallmark of Suzanne Guy is her ability to motivate her students to productive use of time between piano lessons. Her enthusiasm for and dedication to music is shared with her students, who are noted for remarkable sensitivity, musicality, maturity, and technical control.

Products: The Music Box book, The Orchestra, The Orchestra! book

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Cathy Williams Hargrave holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from the University of Louisville School of Music and a Master of Music from the Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler University. In 1979 she began teaching Suzuki piano and has taught in the preparatory departments of the University of Louisville and Butler University.  In 1983 she went to The Talent Education Institute in Matsumoto, Japan to study with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, the creator of The Suzuki Method, and Dr. Haruko Kataoka, a pioneer of the Suzuki piano method.  Within one year she received a teaching certificate from The Talent Education Institute.  For five years she was the founding president of Suzuki for Children, a non-profit organization in Crestwood, KY.  She  later returned to The Talent Education Institute for an additional three years of study with Dr. Kataoka. As a registered teacher trainer and member of the Suzuki Association of the Americas, Ms. Hargrave has been a guest speaker and clinician at national teachers' conferences and has taught teachers and students at Suzuki workshops in the U.S., Canada, and Japan.  She is a member of the Music Teachers National Association and Mu Phi Epsilon Music Fraternity, and teaches at her own studio, Piano Basics of Dallas.  She is married to Dr. Bruce Hargrave and has a daughter, Bethany. PRODUCTS:  Reading Music By Ear              Basic Rhythm Studies CONTACT: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Karen Harrington, NCTM, maintains a studio with over thirty-five students in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma, she is also a clinician and adjudicator and serves the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association as northeast district president. Karen is currently coauthor of the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Theory Workbooks. Karen developed her ideas from the needs of her students to enjoy, retain and use music theory.

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Product: Recipe for a Successful Music Lesson

 

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Kay S. Hooper - teacher, author, performer - founded AllSense Press to fulfill the goal of publishing Sensory Tune-ups. Articles by Kay have appeared in the Direction and American Music Teacher journals.

Kay earned the Bachelor of Music in Education degree from Susquehanna University and the Master of Music degree in pedagogy from Illinois State University. In May of 2000, she completed a three-year training course in Alexander Technique from The Alexander Alliance in Philadelphia. She is certified by Alexander Technique International.

The areas of learning in Sensory Tune-ups come from 44 years of piano study, 33 years of piano teaching and 17 years of Alexander work.  During those years Kay has studied with internationally respected teachers in the U.S. and Great Britain.

Kay owns and operates the Kay S. Hooper Piano and Alexander Technique Studio in Selinsgrove, PA.  She travels to universities and conferences as a guest teacher. She presents Alexander Technique and sensory training workshops to musicians and music teachers.

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Product: Sensory Tune-ups book

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Thelma Johnson earned her Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance at the MacPhail College/University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. She studied with Vera Narregang. She taught piano and was staff accompanist at MacPhail for a number of years. She now maintains her own studio. Accompanying has been her specialty, and she has worked with artists from the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. She accompanied many artists in master classes, including Joseph Gingold, Jean Pierre Rampal, Leonard Rose and Isaac Stern. Thelma is an active member of the Schubert Club of St. Paul, Thursday Musical, Minnesota Music Teachers Association, National Music Teachers Association, St. Paul Piano Teachers, Young People’s Symphony Concert Association (YPSCA) and the Women’s Association of the Minnesota Orchestra (WAMSO). Thelma’s mother was her first piano teacher and under her guidance, Thelma began teaching in high school and has taught well over 50 years. Her husband and two sons are also professional musicians.

Product: Rainbow of Fifths Keyboard Banner

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Leonice Thompson Kidd, deceased, created the Composer Coloring Book series.  She received a Bachelor of Music with honors from New England Conservatory of Music. She was a member of the national League of American Pen Women, the American Guild of Organists, Sigma Alpha Iota and was a nationally certified member of Music Teachers National Association from Virginia where she taught piano and harpsichord.  The  artist for the series was Kerry O’Connor Hood  of Minnesota. She received Bachelor of Science degrees in Art Education and Physical Education and has extensive experience teaching and coaching children of all ages. Ms. Hood originated a small graphic design business including creation of another series of coloring books, the “Panoramic Pull-Out” series.

Products: Composer Highlights Educational Coloring Book Series

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Dennis Kobray Born in Brooklyn, New York into a musical family, Mr. Kobray began piano lessons at age five. His early studies were with a Julliard-trained teacher. He attended Brooklyn College where he co-majored in music and history. He continued his education at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he was awarded a prestigious full scholarship. Prior to the creation of Meet the Musicians in 1986, Mr. Kobray was a music teacher and gave private piano lessons. He is married to Gayle, and they have two grown children. His portrayals of famous musicians for live audiences in schools, museums, colleges, theaters, libraries have received rave reviews. The  Meet theMusicians series has been the recipient of several grants from Commissions of the Arts, and Mr. Kobray is a recognized performer with state and regional arts councils throughout the Northeast. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show and national Public Radio, as well as with the national Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. The New York Times said, “Kobray is helping to create the concert-going audience for the next generation.”

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Website: www.meetthemusicians.us

Products: Meet the Musician DVD's

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Karen Koch, NCTM

EDUCATION: Master of Arts in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Webster University, St. Louis, MO,1987; Bachelor of Arts, Modern Languages, Knox College, Galesburg IL, 1962, .Graduate study in English, Illinois State University at Normal IL, 1965. Her applied piano teachers have been Dwight Drexler, Murray Baylor, and Daniel Schene.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/ACCOMPLISHMENTS: National Certification by Music Teachers National Association. Karen conceived and researched the ideas for her MY OWN MUSIC HISTORY materials during her graduate study, and started her own company in 1991. She organized Music Educators' Marketplace in 1999 with the purpose of enabling creators of music education enrichment materials to cooperatively market quality products for a national audience.

Since 1979 she has taught music students in many venues, including Montessori pre-school, public school K-12, community colleges, and independently in her own studio, though her early teaching experience was as a high school English and French teacher. She remains active in MTNA (Gateway Arch East Illinois and St. Louis Missouri MTA chapters), in Piano Guild, and as a clinician and church musician.

PERSONAL: She is married to Edward Koch who is retired from a family wholesale distribution business but highly involved in community and educational endeavors. He sometimes assists at trade show exhibits for Music Educators' Marketplace. Their three children and in-law children are all active adults who make their parents proud, and who have encouraged Karen’s technological growth, thus allowing the Music Educators’ Marketplace to become a reality. Four grandchildren (so far) provide inspiration and pleasure in their lives.

Karen Koch, NCTM, Coordinator, Music Educators' Marketplace

800-430-3840,  email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Products: My Own Music History Activity Kit, Sticky Staff Post-its, Composer Seal Collection

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Renee Lacey received her Bachelors Degree in Music Education from Idaho State University, where she now teaches class and applied piano. Graduating with high honors, she received the Outstanding Freshman Music Theorist Award in 1986, as well as various other scholastic achievement awards while studying at ISU. Her applied piano instructors include Cecil Simmons, Norma Mastrogiacomo and Dr. Clive Swansbourne. Renee is also an independent teacher, and has been teaching piano lessons in her home for about 15 years. She is active in Music Teachers National Association, and is a former State President for the Idaho MTA. An advocate for using the latest technology with her teaching, Renee incorporated a computer lab into her curriculum in 1993, to augment her teaching and maximize lesson time. This soon led her to a search for ear training software she could use to help her students prepare for syllabus exams. Finding nothing available to meet her needs, Renee soon began outlining ideas for a program of her own. Meanwhile, she learned that her brother Von Hanks, a dentist from Bellingham, Washington, was looking for an opportunity to learn computer programming. When she approached him with her idea, he saw it as the perfect opportunity for him to learn. The two of them soon joined forces and became a team, starting on a new software series called Ear Training Expedition. Five years later, they released the first title, "Ear Training Expedition Part 1, Elementary. Due to its popularity, they have since developed additional titles, "Ear Training Expedition Part 2, Intermediate" and "Part 3, Advanced". Renee, in addition to her teaching, takes in as many music conventions as time and resources will permit, showcasing the software and giving workshops on ear training. Ear Training Expedition is now being used by students of all ages, in private studios and classrooms across the United States and in Canada.

Renee Lacey Trail Creek Systems, Inc.

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Products: Ear Training Expedition Part 1, 2, & 3  software

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Carolyn Inabinet, NCTM,  is the owner/director and primary piano instructor at Music Works Academy, Ltd., a private music school in Phoenix, Arizona offering piano, guitar, voice and beginning strings.  MWA is the home of the Prelude Piano Program, piano discovery classes and small group piano lessons for young children.

EDUCATION: 1968 Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of Tennessee with a major in piano and French.  Graduate work at the University of Tennessee and Arizona State University in early childhood music, instructional design and technology, piano and classical organ.  Licensed  Kindermusik and MusikGarten teacher;  Orff/Schulwerke Levels I and II certification; Harmony Road Music Course certification;  licensed KiddyKeys® instructor.

PUBLICATONS:  Her company PianoFonics offers SOLUTIONS: Teacher Tool Boxes ……the basic building blocks of piano proficiency.   Carolyn is co-author of Practice and Progress (1992) and The FJH Studio Organizer (2002).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Ms. Inabinet has received permanent professional certification with Music Teachers’ National Association and is a member of the National Guild of Piano Teachers.  She has been a speaker at four national conventions.   In 1988 and 89, she was a presenter at the first music technology symposiums held by MTNA.   In 1996, her article “Beyond Piano Instruction: A Decade of Evolution and Revolution” appeared in The American Music Teacher, the national MTNA journal and addressed a nationwide problem with independent music teachers...zoning.  I n her 1996 MTNA National presentation, she shared her experiences and knowledge gained during a five-year zoning battle and subsequent resolution with the City of Phoenix.  In 2003, Ms. Inabinet was a presenter in the MTNA National Conference Poster Session with PianoFonics^®, resource materials for group and private piano instruction.
      In addition, Carolyn is the author of The Cranial Connection, an introductory handbook to cranial osteopathy.  She has received recognition from the American Academy of Osteopathy as well as the Arizona Osteopathic Medical Association for her contribution to manipulative osteopathic literature.  PianoFonics’ SOLUTIONS: Teacher Tool Boxes

Contact: 602-264-51880,  email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Website: www.pianofonics.com

Products: Teacher Tool Boxes: RHYTHM TEACHER TOOL BOX - Blues, Improv, Technic;  READING TOOL BOX -Sightplay Solutions, Prevent, Diagnose, Treat; COORDINATION TOOL BOX - Pentascale Solutions.

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BARBARA RADER: Trained as a historian at the College of Wooster in Ohio, BARBARA RADER came to the piano as a young mother after recognizing that her burning desire to play the piano should not be fulfilled only through her children. Starting as an adult thirty years ago was not easy since there were limited materials available for adult instruction. With the loving persistence of her teacher, Mary Sue Harris of Lincoln, Nebraska, she prevailed. Also with Mary Sue’s encouragement, Barbara started teaching children and other adults ten years later.

Barbara’s frustration with the lack of materials to help her teach music history led her to develop Music History Bingo in 1996. She maintains a private piano studio in her home, teaching both individually and in groups. She has served as president of the Lincoln Music Teachers Association and is currently membership chair for the Nebraska Music Teachers Association.

Barbara’s hobbies include quilting, needlecraft, listening to NPR and singing in the Abendmusik Choir at First Plymouth Church in Lincoln. She is married to Benjamin Rader, a professor of American history at the University of Nebraska, who served as her consultant and copy editor. They have two children: Anne, a professor of pathology at the Oregon Health Sciences University and Stephen, a computer specialist at the University of Wisconsin. The delights of their lives are three young grandchildren, Alex and Aidan in Oregon and Ariella in Wisconsin.

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Products: Music History Bingo Game, Summary of Music History Sheet

 

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Sally Ritchie and Sharon Ragner have collaborated to create the Whirligig games.

Sally Ritchie, our co-founding piano teacher, has been instructing young children, teenagers, and adults for over 30 years. She presently resides in the public school system as a full-time instructor with over 80 private students per week. She plays a number of musical instruments and has opportunity to work with adults and children as organist, choir director, and music coordinator of her church. After searching for years for tools to help her students learn the necessary skills and still enjoy the process, she has discovered that this is an area that definitely needs expanding. Certainly, it is not necessary to entertain our children constantly, but we can make learning more enjoyable.

Sharon Ragner, our co-founding artist, has had design experience in a number of fields and with a variety of art meda. Her experience includes professionally sewing costumes, executing technical drawings of costumes, designing and making polymer clay items, and creating other odds and ends for her home based business. She has found that she loves adding to her design experiences, and she is enjoying working with Sally to create these games which are as much fun as they are educational.

Products: Legato Lake Games, Notewordy Games, Space Place Games, Triple Threat Key Signatures Sharp & Flat Games, Rhythm Riot Games

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Gaye Rumsey-Riggs has a broad background in music, having studied voice and piano from an early age. After obtaining a BA in Religion and Fine Arts from Earlham College and an MA in Elementary Education from Lesley University, she embarked on a teaching career in several U.S. states and in Tokyo, Japan. While studying piano pedagogy with Mary Kogen, Professor Emeritus at Portland State University, Gaye developed Music in Your Hands, a unique multisensory approach to piano instruction.  She continues to create innovative teaching tools that help students learn theory through hands-on materials. The Major-Minor Slider is one of her creations.  In addition, she conducts workshops for piano teachers.

Gaye lives in Portland, Oregon, and is married to Gary Riggs, a systems programmer.  They have two children, both musicians.  While recovering from breast cancer, Gaye realized that teaching piano was the perfect way for her to integrate her love of teaching with her passion for piano.  Her piano studio is a nurturing environment for creative musical exploration, and she sees Music in Your Hands as a way to make music theory both fun and easy to learn.

Product: Major-Minor Slider

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BONNIE SLAUGHTER, NCTM has been a piano teacher for over thirty five years. She is active in the Utah Music Teachers Association where she is the immediate past President of the Bridgerland Chapter. She has also served as President of the Ogden Chapter, Community Outreach Chairman, Composition Competition Chair on the Utah MTA State Board and Region FAIM (Future Artists in Music) Coordinator. She was the Northern Utah Coordinator for the renowned international pedagogue N. Jane Tan. She recently completed her Music Teachers National Certification.
      Bonnie is the director of the Oakwood Performing Arts Academy. She has over 80 students including "The Oakwood 88’s" 5 Piano Teams. Members of the teams enjoy performing at area events including opening for Jon Schmidt. The teams also compete at state and international levels. She has published 5 books and music camps which she enjoys sharing with music teachers across the country. She has given workshops and presentations to teachers across Utah, California, Colorado and New Mexico. She is a member of the Music Educators Marketplace which is an internet site dedicated to products for music teachers. She is a member of the Franklin County Theatre Arts Council.
      Bonnie is the founder and director of the Northern Cache Valley Performing Arts Festival which is held in Preston, Idaho each spring for solos and each fall for ensembles. The mission of the Festival is to provide adjudication and performance opportunities for students of all musical genres and abilities.
      She is married and has five children and 12 grandchildren with a set of twins expected March 2011.

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Website: www.oakwood.musicteachershelper.com

Products: Music Camp Expeditions Series: Vol. 1 Music History Camp; Vol. 2 Christmas Camp; Vol. 3 Patriotic Camp; Vol. 4 Accompanying/Conducting/Improv Camp.

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Jane Singhal and Daria Kingman collaborated on their book.

Jane Singhal holds a Bachelor of Arts in music from Yale and a master’s degree in Russian Studies from Princeton. A violin student of Kikuei Ikeda of the Tokyo String Quartet and Oistrakh pupils Dana and Yuri Mazurkevich, Ms. Singhal was concertmistress of the Midwest Chamber Orchestra and violinist and music director for Interlude Chamber Ensemble in New Jersey. Also a vocalist and music instructor, Ms. Singhal devotes her time to teaching children and impressing upon parents the need for enriching and engaging music materials at home and in the schools. She is the author of Applause, a violin method and repertoire series, and Move Over, Mozart, an elementary music curriculum, as well as articles on the importance of skills-based music instruction. Ms. Singhal lives in Belmont, California with her husband and two daughters in what one of her youngest students has dubbed "The Singing House".

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Website:  http://www.singinghouse.com

Product: Creature Feature book and CD

Daria Kingman, an art teacher and free-lance commercial artist since 1973, is currently the art specialist at Hilltop Elementary School in Mendham, New Jersey. Ms. Kingman’s comprehensive art program gives young students the technical and observational skills they need to appreciate and create art in any media—from pastels to computers. As president of the county chapter of the Art Educators of New Jersey, she carries her passion for teaching and children outside the classroom, organizing numerous exhibits of children’s art work throughout the year. Ms. Kingman resides in the New Jersey countryside, where she tends a large vegetable garden, fish pond and many flower beds and pursues biking, hiking, skiing and flying as well as raising two children—her greatest projects.

 

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Brad Thompson

EDUCATION:  Bachelor of Music Education (choir and piano emphasis), Brigham Young University, 1978.

Brad Thompson has taught music at every level from elementary school to college. He has toured North America, Europe, and the Pacific as a pianist, dancer, singer and conductor. He has recorded as a soloist and ensemble artist on a number of labels. Brad has also appeared on radio, national and international TV and in several movies.

As an instructor, Brad Thompson has helped his students garner thousands of dollars in scholarships and awards. He was named Utah's Teacher of the Year in Arts Education for his work in advancing the arts among secondary students. He and his wife Elizabeth are the parents of five children and currently reside in California.

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Website: musicwonderfulmusic.com

Products: The Story of Music CD Set, The Budding Listener Activity CD's

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JUDITH WADE, NCTM

Nationally Certified Teacher of Music by Music Teachers’ National Association

EDUCATION
- B.A. in Music Composition & Theory, Knox College, Galesburg IL
- M. Music in Music Education, University of Michigan
-Studied piano with Murray Baylor and Charles Fisher

CERTIFICATION
- Certified teacher Michigan Music Teachers Association
- Permanent Professional Certified Teacher, Music Teachers National Association

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
-Founder and Director of Orchard Lake School of Music
-Private students have participated in Federation Festivals, MMTA Achievement Testing, National Guild Auditions and have won many honors, scholarships and competitions.
-Taught piano for 48 years

MEMBERSHIPS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Michigan Music Teachers Association, Certified
- Musit Teachers National Association, Certified
- National Guild of Piano Teachers
- National Federation of Musicians
- Served as adjudicator for these organizations
- 1st Technology Chair for Michigan Music Teachers Association
- Served as officer and board member of local and state music organizations
- On music selection board for National Federation Junior Festival Bulletin
- Published article in Key Notes-National Federation of Music Clubs magazine

GIVEN LECTURES
- Local music teacher organizations and MMTA groups
- National Guild of Piano Teachers
- Goshen College Piano Teachers Workshop
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Lisa Wehrly, originally from Portland, Indiana, began her music studies at the age of 9 with piano and French Horn lessons. Katherine Beard, nationally known piano pedagogue, was her teacher and mentor. Lisa acquired a BS in Music Education from Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. There, she studied piano with Pia Sebastiani and was awarded the honor Outstanding Junior in Music Education by her professors. Lisa went on to acquire an MM degree in Church Music/Organ from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. She studied with Richard Enright and Wolfgang Rubsam. Over the past 25 years Lisa has taught general/vocal music at Rochester Middle School, South Central Schools in LaPorte County and Maconaquah Middle School. Since 1988 she has taught for Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, Osceola, IN, currently at Mary Frank Elementary School.

Lisa is Director of the Westminster Choir and Westminster Chimes, Westminster Presbyterian Church, South Bend. She holds membership with MENC and MTNA, also being a part of the local organization. She has established the business Lisa's Music Box in 2003. It features THE MUSIC BOX.

Website:  www.lisasmusicbox.com

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Christine Wolf, NCTM (Nationally Certified Teacher of Music) is a cum laude graduate of St. Cloud State University, Minnesota where she studied with Carmen Wilhite.  She did Master studies at the Hartt School of Music, Hartford CN with Raymond Hansen, and also attended the Cliburn Piano Institute Teachers Program in June 2004 with Harold Martina.  She has been teaching since 1982.