Kodály Music Educators of Kansas

Go to this link to download lesson plan with extensions, bibliography of resources, and the session handout. (includes contact info for presenters)

Children’s Choir:  Arcady 

Children’s Choir:   Inflammatus et Accensus, Pergolessi

Children’s Choir:   I Want Jesus to Walk With Me

These videos are selections from the adult and children’s choir performance that concluded the Summer Kodaly teacher certification courses and Children’s Choir Camp. Proceeds from the sale of the DVDs will go to benefit the WSU Children’s Kodály Choir Camp Fund. To purchase DVDs of this entire performance, please see details on the Children’s Choir page.

The MKMEA bulletin is going green!!! The board is please to begin distributing our quarterly publication in a more earth friendly and economical way!  Please look for the winter and summer issues to arrive in your e-mail in box while the fall and spring issues will continue to be delivered to your mailboxes. To ensure accurate delivery, make sure that the correct e-mail address is on file with the national office.  If you have any questions, please contact editor, Karla Cherwinski at kcherwin@canalwin.k12.oh.us

Kodály Music Educators of Kansas,  An Affiliate Chapter of OAKE

Welcome to Kodály Music Educators of Kansas:

Our KMEK chapter began in 2004 at the dining room table of Kirk Olson.  He and Lisa Simmelink were the first Kansans to believe that the Kodály Method needed to come to the prairie.  They began talking to Elaine Bernstorf, professor at Wichita State University, and soon the Kodály Certification program began at WSU.  With some of the first students of Level 1, KMEK was established and with the vision of Kirk and Lisa, this small, hardworking, chapter began.

We are 25 members strong currently and would welcome you to join us if you are interested in learning more about the Kodály method, our KMEK chapter, or thinking about becoming Kodály certified.  We have at least 2 workshops per year, quarterly meetings, and socials when we can.  You are more than welcome to be a part of any of these activities.

We are active in our state and community.  Currently we are represented on the KMEA board,   we are in the process of beginning a recorder ensemble to play at Renaissance Fairs and other events, we host workshops for our members and community and we work closely with USD 259, Wichita, for mentoring and workshop presenters.  We are well represented at State and Regional levels with Lisa Simmelink, charter President elect, on the MKMEA board, and Holly Taylor, a KMEK charter member, the KMEA elementary chairperson.

We take pride in the accomplishments of our members and we play a supportive role in where we are needed.

Please join us for a workshop, at WSU Kodály level classes, or just for a social.  Check our web page for all the current activities we have planned.

Musically yours,

Judy Mareda, KMEK President

jjmareda@sbcglobal.net

“Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last a lifetime…” – Kodály