OMEA 2002 Conference:

Dr. Jill Trinka
Clinician

Dr. Jill Trinka is Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Programs in Music Education at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She holds degrees in music education from the University of Illinois (B.S.) and the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.), and Kodály Certification from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, as a Ford Foundation Ringer Fellow. Dr. Trinka has taught in Kodály teacher education programs throughout the United States, including the University of North Texas, where she was also Director of the Center for Contemporary Studies in Music Education; Portland State University; the Hartt School at University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; and DePaul University on Chicago. She is currently serving as President of the Organization of American Kodály Educators.

Internationally recognized as "an energetic and winsome performer," Jill is a frequent lecturer, clinician, and performer at national, regional, and local conferences and workshops. Her specialties include music literacy pedagogy and folk music performance, analysis, and research. She plays guitar, dulcimer, autoharp, and banjo, and has recorded and written four volumes of folksongs, singing games, and play parties for kids of all ages: My Little Rooster (1987), Bought Ma a Cat (1988), John, the Rabbit (1989), and The Little Black Bull (1986). Dr. Trinka is an author and recording artist for the Silver Burdett and Ginn music series.