Susan Brumfield
Dr. Susan Brumfield is Professor of Music Education at Texas Tech University, and holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University
of Oklahoma. She is widely known throughout the United States and the United Kingdom as a clinician, consultant, author, composer,
arranger and conductor of children's choirs, and is an internationally recognized Kodaly educator. Frequently in demand as a guest
conductor, Dr. Brumfield is the Artistic Director and Conductor of The West Texas Children's Chorus. Dr. Brumfield is a program author
for the national series music texts, Silver Burdett Ginn Making Music, and a contributing author for the Hal Leonard magazine for
classroom music teachers, John Jacobson's Music Express. Dr. Brumfield's choral music is available through Colla Voce Music and Hal
Leonard Publications. She was invited by the International Kodaly Society to represent the United States with a new choral composition
commissioned for the internationally released IKS publication Music: A Universal Language. Dr. Brumfield teaches in Kodaly certificate
programs throughout the country. She serves as Academic Director of The West Texas Kodaly Initiative, and holds the same position in
courses at Portland State University and Westminster Choir College.
Dr. Brumfield has conducted extensive field and archival research in England and Scotland, tracing the roots of American folk music in traditional British music. Her most recent publications, Hot Peas and Barley-O: Children's Songs and Games from Scotland, and Over the Garden Wall: Children's Songs and Games from England are available through Hal Leonard Publications. She is currently at work on Giro Giro Tondo, a new collections of children's songs and games from Italy for use in the music classroom, and on a series of pedagogy materials for music teachers.
To contact Susan Brumfield, email susan.brumfield@ttu.edu.