MUSC 331; Elementary
Methods
MUSC 153; Class Piano
EDUC 412/441; Student
Teacher Supervision
LBST 499; Women Who Compose
Susan
Wheatley (Ph.D., The University
of Michigan) is Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and
general/choral music specialist. Dr. Wheatley has served as workshop
facilitator and consultant to music educators throughout the United
States and Europe. She has served as guest conductor in Pennsylvania
for several PMEA Songfests and County Choruses on the elementary and
secondary level and was the founding director of the Indiana (PA) Arts
Council Children's Chorus from 1993-1997.
Dr. Wheatley has an active interest in the research on women and music.
Highlighting this research, she serves as co-director of IUP's
prestigious Festival of Women Composers. She has appeared frequently as
pianist and conductor during the Festival series and has received
grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts, and Meet-the-Composers, Inc., to sponsor
performances and commissions of the works of women composers. In
addition, she was interviewed about women and music in the broadcast, Highlights
of the Fifth Festival of Women Composers,
which was aired on several PBS networks. As a specialist in the history
and process of Orff-Schulwerk,
Dr. Wheatley received a Fulbright-Hays award to conduct research in
Salzburg, Austria, at the University 'Mozarteum' on the life and works
of composer and Schulwerk
educator Gunild Keetman.
Dr. Wheatley's published articles have appeared in the International
Association for Women in Music Journal,
the Orff Echo,
the Opera For Youth Journal,
The National Association of Laboratory Schools,
and the Pennsylvania Music
Educators News. She is a member
of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, the Music Educators
National Conference, the College Music Society, and serves as board
member for the International Association for Women in Music.
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