AOSA 2009 Professional Development Conference
Conference Presenters

Han, Kuo-Huang (# 244, 327)
Angklung: the Bamboo Shakers in Group Music Teaching
Angklung is a popular bamboo instrument widely used in music education in Southeast Asia. Play traditional and modern angklung music from Indonesia and the West.

Kuo-Huang Han is Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois University and was visiting professor at the University of Kentucky. He has taught ethnomusicology, world music, and Chinese and Southeast Asian music performance. He has written articles for the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and several textbooks.

Howard, Karen (# 224, 245)
Music of Tahiti─From Polynesia to the U.S.A.
Learn traditional Tahitian rhythms on the toere (slit drum) and fa'atete (drum). Dances and songs are appropriate for school ensembles.

Karen Howard teaches vocal music in Connecticut and has directed the Connecticut Children's Chorus. Her training includes studies in Cuba, Tahiti, Ghana, Turkey, Macedonia, Thailand, Morocco and India. She presents workshops at the national and international level and was recognized as CMEA’s Elementary Music Educator of the Year for 2003.

Huenemann, Lynn (# 225)
Big Recorders for Small People
Sponsored by Music is Elementary
Explore all voices of recorders in settings appropriate for beginning recorder players, using the MIE consort series. Create accompaniments, add improvisation and use simple recorder ensembles in the classroom.

Lynn Huenemann teaches grades K-4 at Seneca East Schools in Northwest Ohio. She has taught recorder at Orff Teacher Training at Cleveland State University. Lynn has presented at AOSA National conference, and presents workshops on teaching music using recorder and Orff process across the country.

Huffman, Carol (# 146)
DEMO: All That Jazz
This demonstration session features sixth-grade students working with speech, body instruments, non-pitched percussion and improvisation.

Carol Huffman is a Past-President of AOSA. She has presented throughout the United States, Canada and China and served as a consultant for The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Carol was a contributing writer for Macmillan/McGraw Hill and is the Executive Director for the Bloomington Early Music Festival in Indiana.

Hug, Jo Ella (# 147)
DEMO: Recorder Demonstration Group
This demonstration session features sixth-grade students working with recorder as an integrated member of the Orff Schulwerk media. Process teaching lays the foundation for success.

Jo Ella Hug just completed her term as AOSA President. She teaches Middle School students full time, as well as adult OS learners in the summer. She has presented at numerous AOSA Conferences, Carl Orff Canada and MENC National in 2008. She has a video presentation available in the AOSA library.

Hull, Arthur (# 285, 328)
The Rhythmical Alchemy Playshop!
Experience how to use rhythm to inspire community-building, fun and learning. Explore expressive activities through musical ice-breakers, rhythm-play, vocal games, songs and theater improvisation for community-building fun!

Arthur Hull travels the world inspiring community-building through the metaphor of a rhythm circle. Organizations are tapping into the network of community-building that motivational music making inspires. Arthur has used the Village Music Circles™ metaphor to build team spirit and promote unity in corporations, schools and communities world-wide.

Imiolo-Schriver, Deborah (I – # 148; II – # 286, 343)
I. DEMO: Improvisation in the Xylophonation
If you're coming to me, be prepared to see a demonstration—unrehearsed—with energy! Sing! Dance! Shimmy your bones... And everyone will improvise on xylophones!

II.Process with PowerPoint
Goodbye tag board. Hello laptop…From imitation to exploration to improvisation…from the body to instruments. It’s the same…but different!

Deborah A. Imiolo-Schriver was presented the 2004 Classroom Music Teacher of the Year Award from the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Erie County Council for Music Educators. She has presented at the AOSA Conference, the NYSSMA summer and winter conferences, and at workshops throughout the US.

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