Prof. Debbie Glaze

is currently Assistant Professor of Music and the Coordinator of Music Education at Portland State University.  Professor Glaze serves as the Academic Director for the PSU Kodály Certification Workshop.

She has been the assistant conductor of the Portland Symphonic Choir since 1997, and was the Interim Director during the 2001-2002 concert season.  She has been active in Music Education in Oregon since 1983, serving as President of the Oregon Music Educators Association from 1996-1998, and was the Music Supervisor for the Lake Oswego Schools from 1995-2003.  Most recently, she chaired the creation of a new Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education to be offered at Portland State University starting in the Fall term of 2006.  She is active as a clinician and adjudicator in the Northwest.

She holds a Master’s degree in Choral Conducting and Music Education from San Jose State University and taught choral music at the high school level for seventeen years in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the Tigard/Tualatin School District.  Her choirs were recognized statewide and performed throughout the Portland area.  In 1991, the Tigard High School Choir performed at the 100th Gala Anniversary Celebration of Carnegie Hall.  She was voted Teacher of the Year in 1980 and 1991 in her respective high schools and four the past six years has conducted the Oregon Ambassadors of Music Choir on their summer European tour.

Please feel welcome to contact her with your questions at 503.725.3155 or 1.800.547.8887 ext. 3155 or e-mail her at GlazeD@pdx.edu

Dr. Susan Brumfield, PhD, is associate professor of music at Texas Tech University and holds a PhD in music education from the University of Oklahoma. She is well known nationally and internationally for her work with children's choirs and as a Kodály educator.

Professor Brumfield serves as the Academic Director for the PSU Kodály Certification Workshop.

Carol J. Brown received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Texas-Austin and a Master of Education from Indiana University where she also did graduate work in Folklore and enomusicology. As a graduate assistant she worked as a recording technician in the IU Archives of Traditional Music, the second largest archive of folk music in the United States. She holds a two-year diploma with special recognition for achievement in folk music from the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary. She has taught folklore classes at the University of Texas-Pan American and solvege and folk music in Kodaly certification programs across the country.

For twenty years she has taught music in McAllen, Texas, located on the US-Mexican border. Her research as focused on children's traditional songs and singing games from Latin America. With her students, she presented demonstration sessions at the 2000 Texas Music Educators Association state convention and in the 2002 Organziation of American Kodály Educators national convention. She is regularly invited to present workshops on Mexican traditional culture and folk song and she was project consultant for the two Mexican singing games featured on the recent Global Voices DVD series produced in connection with McMillan/McGraw-Hill's Spotlight on Music textbooks. She is currently music specialist and choir director at IDEA Quest Academy in McAllen. She plays horn in the Valley Symphony Orchestra.

Dr. Andrew S. Paney is the choir director at JP Elder Middle School in Fort Worth, Texas.  Dr. Paney earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Wheaton College (Illinois) in 2000, a Master of Music Education degree in 2004 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Fine Arts Degree with an emphasis in Music Education in 2007, both from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.  He completed Kodály studies through Portland State University and the West Texas Kodály Initiative under Susan Brumfield. He holds teacher certification in Illinois and Texas.  

His teaching career began in Bensenville, Illinois where he taught kindergarten through fifth grade music and middle school chorus.  He taught courses at Texas Tech University and worked with the West Texas Children's Chorus and other children's choirs while in Lubbock. He is currently in his second year in Fort Worth building a successful choir program.  He collaborates closely with other choir directors in Fort Worth and has presented on aural skills instruction at professional development meetings.  His choirs have performed throughout the region at festivals, competitions, and public venues.  He recently joined the faculty of Vocallizze, a group that brings children together through choral music in Lisbon, Portugal.  

His research interests include aural skills acquisition and urban education.  He has presented research at regional and national conferences and performed around the nation as pianist for the vocal ensemble The Sweet Peas. Dr. Paney is a member of Texas Music Educators Association, the Organization of American Kodály Educators, and Kodály Educators of Texas.

Dr. Katalin Kiss is conductor of Ars Nova Vocal Ensemble Budapest, Hungary.
Professor at Kodály Institute of Liszt Ferenc University of Music.
Received her diploma in choral conducting and music education and took her doctor’s degree  ( DLA, doctor of liberal arts ) at the Liszt Academy of  Music in Budapest.
She spent several years at Kodály Center of America in the USA as a guest lecturer and conductor.
In 1990 she founded the Ars Nova Vocal Ensemble. The choir won under her lead major titles in Europe. Beside many  first prices and special honours they won  Grand Prix in Ankara, Turkey 1996, Tours, France 1997, Zwickau, Germany 1998, Budapest, Hungary 1999 , World Champion  Graz 2008.
With Ars Nova and other choirs she gave concerts throughout Europe, China and the United States and has given numerous first performances  and radio recording and CD-s.
In 1993 she founded Ars Nova Editio and  became one of the major publishers of  contemporary Hungarian choral music.
She founded the World Choir of Hungarians , that serves the reunion of Hungarians from all over the world  in Music at special national festivals ( 1996, 2000 ).
She  is a regular performer and lecturer at music conventions, symposia and seminars in Hungary and in abroad..
She received the prestigous " József  Katona” Award from the city of Kecskemét ( 1996 ), the ARTISJUS Award ( in 1997 and 1999 )„for the extraordinary high standard of the dissemination of contemporary music”, and the Art Award  of Bács-Kiskun County  for her outstanding work in choral art.

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