
Orff Approach with Chris Judah-Lauder
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<p>Chris Judah-Lauder Bio:</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris Judah Lauder, a Past President of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, served as the 2017 AOSA National Conference Chair in Fort Worth, Texas, 2009 AOSA National Conference Chair in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1995 AOSA Local Conference Chair, and is currently serving as an AOSA mentor. She earned her Masters Degree in Music Education at Indiana University in South Bend, received her Orff Schulwerk certification at University of Illinois University, Urbana-Champaign and completed an Orff Master Class with Richard Gill. She has forty years of experience teaching music, movement, recorder, singing and drumming to K-8</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">th</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">grade students in public, private and independent schools. She was the Fine Arts Coordinator for Good Shepherd Episcopal School in Dallas, TX and co-wrote the Music Curriculum for GSES and the Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Indiana. Chris’ Orff Ensemble was selected to perform for the Opening Ceremony for the 1995 American Orff-Schulwerk Association National Conference. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her Orff, Recorder and Drum Ensembles were also invited to perform under her direction for the Texas Music Educators Conferences in 2000, 2003, 2007, and her Drum group performed for PASIC in 2000. Her middle school students recorded a CD titled</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Select Beats</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">in the Charlie Pride Recording Studio.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She has taught Orff Schulwerk certification courses to adults at fourteen universities over the past thirty years, presented over 200 conference sessions and workshops at national conferences, state music educator’s associations, school districts, and Orff chapters throughout the US, Canada, China, South Korea. She is currently serving as a Music Consultant for Title One schools in Texas, wo