2004 Conference Presenter

Elizabeth Gilpatrick
Orff Clinician

Elizabeth Gilpatrick�Orff Clinician

Liz Gilpatrick has been actively teaching Orff Schulwerk to adults and children throughout the United States for twenty-five years. She completed her levels training with Grace Nash in Arizona in 1980, and soon thereafter joined the faculty as recorder specialist. She has taught in numerous Orff levels training courses from California to Massachusetts, and given workshops from Alaska to Florida. In addition, she has presented at MENC gatherings through the western U.S., and at a dozen American Orff Schulwerk Association conferences.

From 1994 until 2003, Liz was an active member of the editorial board of the Orff Echo, the journal of the American Orff Schulwerk Association, and served as Interim Editor of during the 2001-2002 school year. In addition to writing about music education, Liz is a composer of classroom choral materials for children. Alfred Publishing Company lists four of her books in its catalog: Round We Go, Round the Seasons, Sing With Me; Learn With M e and Come Join In. She is at work on a fifth book, as yet untitled.

After completing a bachelor�s degree in music education and a master�s degree in horn performance at the University of Wisconsin, Liz taught k-5 music for nearly thirty years before retiring in 1998. In March of 2003, she graduated from the International Harp Therapy Program, and is a Certified Therapeutic Harp Practitioner.