for Elementary Music Educators
Saturday, March 4, 2006
Mount Royal College, Calgary

9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. (8:30am registration)
Workshop, Concert, Lunch and Annual General Meeting

featuring INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP WITH INTERNATIONALLY-RENOWNED FOLK MUSIC PEDAGOGUE AND PRESENTER JILL TRINKA

JILL TRINKA is Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Programs in Music Education at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. She holds Kodály Certification as a Ford Foundation Ringer Fellow from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. Dr Trinka has taught in Kodály teacher education programs throughout the United States, and served as director of the Kodály Institute of Texas and the Kodály Certificate Program at Portland State University in Portland, OR. She is a Past President of the Organization of American Kodály Educators. Dr. Trinka plays guitar, dulcimer, autoharp, and banjo and has recorded and written four volumes of folksongs for kids of all ages. She is an author and recording artist for the Silver Burdett amd Ginn/Scott Foresman music series textbooks and is a frequent lecturer, clinician, and performer at national, regional, and local conferences and workshops where she presents workshops on such topics ranging from music literacy pedagogy to folk music performance practice. Her recordings of songs for the Feierabend Music Now I'm Three, Music Now I'm Four, and Music Now I'm Five series will be released in Fall, 2005. For further information contact Susan: sdrayson@mtroyal.ca

Please download and print the Registration Form and mail it with your cheque (payable to the Alberta Kodály Association) to:

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