AMEA 2013 Clinicians Hand Drums and More - Friday, 3:15 - 5”30 pm


Sing, Dance and Play the Orff Way - Saturday, 8:00 - 9:00 am Recorder Success - Saturday, 9:15 - 10:15 am


Chris Judah-Lauder teaches middle school music and is the Fine Arts Director at Good Shepherd Episcopal School in Dallas. She is the Vice President of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association and has served as past National 2009 Conference Chair in Milwaukee, regional representative, local conference chair, chair of the AOSA Executive Search Committee and has presented at seven National Orff Conferences.


She is an active clinician for in-service staff


developments, Orff Schulwerk chapters and State Music Education Conferences. Chris has fourteen publications and is published in The Echo, Reverberations, and the MENC journal. Chris teachers Orff Schulwerk Teacher Education levels II and/or III at Trinity University in San Antonio and Vander Cook University (Chicago).


Social Media & Texting: Legal & Moral Questions - Friday, 2:10 - 3:00 pm


Emily Raley received her B.A. from Jacksonville State University and her Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1999. While at the University of Alabama, Emily served as editor of the Alabama Law and Psychology Review, was inducted into the Bar Legal Honor Society and the Student Bar Association. Emily graduated cum laude from JSU with a major in Economics and Political Science. She served as President of the Student Government Association and student representative on the Academic Council of Deans. She also served as President of Phi Mu Fraternity and Vice President of the Order of Omega Honor Society. She was a member of Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society, Sigma Beta


Delta Business Honor Society, Dean’s List, 1996 and Calhoun County Young Woman of the Year. Ms. Raley is a member of the Etowah County Bar Association, Alabama Bar Association, Alabama Association for Justice, Executive committee, Chairman of Women's Caucus American Association for Justice and the New Lawyers Board of Governors. Cusimano, Keener, Roberts & Raley P. C., Gadsden, Alabama.


Using Your Computer Tablet as a Music Folder - Friday, 1:00 - 2:00 pm


Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Ian Loeppky has been an Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of North Alabama since the fall of 2003. His studies began at the University of Manitoba, continued at the University of Minnesota with Kathy Romey, and finished at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati with Earl Rivers and Stephen Coker. Loeppky has worked as a singer, scholar, conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and arranger in Canada, the United States, and Portugal. He directs all three choral ensembles at UNA and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting, choral techniques, world music, and graduate choral literature. In addition, he


directs the choir at Trinity Episcopal Church in Florence, is founder and artistic director of Florence Camerata, and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the region and internationally. He is a frequent contributor to the Choral Journal and the Alabama Reprise, and this spring appeared as a guest conductor with the Madison Honor Choir Girls Chorus, the Mississippi GirlChoir, and the Huntsville Master Chorale. Most recently, he had the privilege of sharing the podium with Dr. Elroy Friesen in concert with their Alma Mater choir, the University of Manitoba Singers.


Percussion for the Non-Percussionist Band Director - Saturday, 9:15 - 10:15 am


Dr. Jefferson Grant currently serves as the Associate Director of Bands and Director of Percussion at Prattville High School in Prattville, Alabama. Dr. Grant holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in performance from The University of Southern Mississippi as well as a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degree from Columbus State University and the University of Louisville respectively. Dr. Grant is an active arranger, adjudicator, and clinician. His articles have appeared in Percussive Notes, and he has presented clinics at the University of Louisville Percussion Symposium, National Conference of Percussion Pedagogy, the Mississippi Bandmasters State Convention, AMEA, and this fall at the Percussive Arts Society’s International


Convention (PASIC). Dr. Grant is the co-founder of the Southeastern Percussion Festival (SEPF),serves on the Board of Directors for the Southeastern Color Guard Circuit and is the Vice President/President Elect for the Alabama Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society. He is a member of Delta Chi, Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa Psi, The Percussive Arts Society, MENC, and BMI. Dr. Grant would like to thank Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets, Sabian cymbals, and Yamaha drums for their continued support of music education and this clinic.


Parallels Between Music and Language Arts - Thursday, 10:30 - 11:30 am 42


Suzanne Hall is an assistant professor of music education at Augusta State University. She earned her Master’s in Education and her undergraduate Bachelor of Music Education at the University of Central Florida and her Ph.D. from the University of Memphis. She has taught elementary general music (K-5) in Florida and Tennessee and has presented research and professional development workshops on music and literacy in Mississippi, Tennessee, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Florida. She is also co-author of Teaching Elementary Music: Integrative Strategies between Music and Other Subjects (Kendall Hunt).


Emily currently serves as a Partner/Attorney with


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