Overview

Ph.D. Choral Pedagogy

Ph.D. Vocal Pedagogy

Applying to KU

Faculty

Vocology Lab

Graduate Assistants

Summer Session

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MEMT Division

Voice Division

Choral Division

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Primary Faculty



Ph.D. students pursuing the Choral Pedagogy or Vocal Pedagogy Emphases have opportunity to work with outstanding faculty members from across the University. Faculty from the Division of Music Education and Music Therapy, the Voice Division, and the Choral Division of the Department of Music and Dance will be primary contacts. For brief biographical sketches of these folks please follow the Division links to the left.

In addition, choral and vocal pedagogy graduate students benefit from close collaboration with laryngologists from the KU Medical Center and the Kansas Voice Center, appropriate coursework in the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing, and outstanding visiting professors who come to campus each year in connection with our programs in choral and vocal pedaogy. Dr. J. David Garnett, laryngologist, has a joint faculty appointment with the School of Music and the KU Medical Center. Several faculty members from the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing regularly lecture in School of Music vocal/choral pedagogy courses and mentor our graduate students pursuing particular research projects. They have served as well on dissertation and thesis committees for graduate students in vocal and choral pedagogy.


Laryngology


J. David Garnett, M.D., F.A.C.S.
    Associate Professor, Otolaryngology, KU Medical Center
    Associate Professor, Voice Science and Laryngology, School of Music

Lee A. Reussner, M.D.
    Otolaryngologist
    Director, Kansas Voice Center

Speech-Language-Hearing


Stephen M. Barlow, Ph.D.
    Professor
    Department of Speech-Language-Hearing

Jeffrey P. Searle, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    School of Allied Health, Department of Hearing and Speech, KU Med

Edward T. Auer, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Speech-Language-Hearing

Jennifer Cannady, M.A., CCC-SLP
    Speech Pathologist
    Kansas Voice Center

Acoustics


Robert C. Coffeen, P.E., FASA
    Associate Professor
    School of Architecture, Design and Planning

Recent Visiting Professors:

Leon Thurman, Ed.D. (Summer 2011)
    Founder, International Voice Care Network; Principal Author, Bodymind and Voice

Steven Demorest, Ph.D. (Summer 2010)
    Professor of Choral Pedagogy and Music Education, The University of Washington

Alice-Ann Darrow, Ph.D. (Summer 2009)
    Cooper Professor of Music Education and Music Therapy, Florida State University

Dwayne Dunn, Ph.D. (Summer 2009)
    Director of Choral Activities, Olathe East High School

Andre Thomas, D.M.A. (Summer 2008)
    Director of Choral Activities & Professor of Choral Music Education, Florida State University

Janice Killian, Ph.D. (Summer 2007)
    Professor of Choral Music Education, Texas Tech University

John Nix, M.Mus, Cert. Vocology (Fall 2007)
    Associate Professor, Voice and Vocal Pedagogy, University of Texas San Antonio

Hilary Apfelstadt, Ph.D. (Summer 2006)
    Director of Choral Activities, Ohio State University, President American Choral Directors Association

Judy Bowers, Ph.D. (Summer 2005)
    Professor of Choral Music Education, Florida State University

Sten Ternstrom, Ph.D. (Fall, 2004)
    Professor of Music Acoustics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm



For more specific information about the Ph.D. emphasis in choral pedagogy, please follow the hyperlinks to the left. Should you have further questions, please contact Dr. James F. Daugherty, Associate Professor of Choral and Vocal Pedagogy and Director of Graduate Studies in Music Education & Music Therapy(jdaugher at ku.edu).