CMDC Faculty
| Director
Dr. Wendy Valerio, is Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Children's Music Development Center (CMDC) at The University of South Carolina where she teaches graduate and undergraduate music methods courses, conducts early childhood music development research. As CMDC director she supervises music education experiences for young children and USC students at the USC Music Play program, USC Child Development and Research Center, and St. Peter’s Catholic Elementary School in Columbia, SC. Valerio is an active clinician in the United States, as well as Lithuania, Germany, Canada, and Bermuda. Scholarly articles based on her research have been published the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education (Fall, 2006), and Listen to their voices: Research and Practice in Early Childhood Music, (Canadian Music Educators Association, 2007), The Development and Practical Application of Music Learning Theory (GIA, 2005), and in the proceedings of Gesellschaft für Musikforschung: Musik und kulturelle Identität, Bärenreiter, 2007). She is co-author of Music Play (GIA, 1998) and Jump Right In: The Music Curriculum, Rev. Kindergarten-Grade 5, 2000-2007, and her work is featured in Music Play: Bah, Bah, Bebop, Beethoven (GIA,1999). Dr. Valerio received MM and PhD degrees from Temple University and Kodaly Level 1 and Level III Orff Schulwerk Certification from Hamline University. She is a member of the Gordon Institute for Music Learning Mastership Certification Faculty, the Early Childhood Music and Movement Association, the American Orff Schulwerk Association, and the Alliance for Active Music Making. Teachers Kellie Barrier - Gordon Institute for Music Learning, Mastership Certification/ Elementary - Level I; M.M.E.,University of South Carolina; B.M.E. UNC-Charlotte; MME, USC Kristen Kirby - Gordon Institute for Music Learning, Mastership Certification/Instrumental - Level I & Early Childhood - Level I; BM in Education, USC; MME, USC '07 Shellie Leitner - Orff Schulwerk Level I; BM in Education; USC; MME USC (in progress) Claire Griffith - Orff Schulwerk Level I; BM in Education USC (in progress); USC Magellan Scholar '07 |