Susan Brumfield

Dr. Susan Brumfield is Associate 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. Dr. Brumfield is a program author for the national series music texts, Silver Burdett Ginn Making Music. Her choral music is available through Colla Voce Music and Hal Leonard Publications. Dr. Brumfield 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 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 publication, Hot Peas and Barley-O: Children’s Songs and Games from Scotland, is available through Hal Leonard Publications. She is currently completing Over the Garden Wall and Giro Giro Tondo, two new collections of children’s songs and games from England and Italy for use in the music classroom. Dr. Brumfield has recently begun research for a new book on the life and work of the English children’s folksong collector, Father Damian Webb.

To contact Susan Brumfield, email susan.brumfield@ttu.edu.