bio-huggins

M.M.Ed with Kodály Emphasis, Holy Names College
B.M.Ed., Peabody Conservatory of Music
Post graduate work in Curriculum Development, Educational Leadership,
Choral Conducting, Voice Pedagogy, Piano Pedagogy, Dalcroze, and Orff
Member: OAKE, IKS, The VoiceCare Network, ACDA, MENC, MMEA,
Baltimore Folk Music Society, Society for Music Teacher Education,
Society for Research in Music Education

Amy Branum Huggins, founder/director of the American Kodály
Institute, is an internationally respected Kodály master teacher and
teacher trainer who is regarded as an authority on Kodály methodology
and curriculum development. In addition to her work designing and
teaching graduate courses for music educators, she is a frequent
presenter at music educators' conferences and workshops, and is in
demand as a mentor for student teachers from various colleges and
universities. She has served two terms as national vice president of the
Organization of American Kodály Educators and five terms as president
of Maryland United Specialists in Kodály.

While engaging in Kodály-inspired public school teaching for the past
thirty-two years, Mrs. Huggins has also designed curricula for the
Baltimore County school system and the Preparatory Department of the
Peabody Conservatory of Music, authored a number of textbooks, served
as a columnist for the national journal, The Kodály Envoy, served on the
theory faculty of the Peabody Preparatory Department and the teaching
staff of the Children's Chorus of Maryland, and is well known in the
Baltimore area as a private teacher of piano and voice. She is listed in
Who's Who Among America's Teachers, Who's Who in American Education,
Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the
World, and Who's Who of the International Kodály Society.

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