Attention Teachers! PD Opportunities with Susan Brumfield – Workshops and Open Rehearsals for CCNS!
Some great opportunities for professional coming up soon!
Learn from the incredible Susan Brumfield, Professor of Music at Texas Tech University (and Guest Conductor for Children’s Chorus of Nova Scotia 2025)!
Read More about Susan below!
Opportunity #1 – CCNS Weekend – Professional Development for Leaders:
April 11 & 12 – FREE – OPEN rehearsals for observation with the Children’s Chorus of Nova Scotia. First United Church Hall, Prince St, Truro. Friday: 10 – 12, 1:00 – 5:00. Saturday: 9:30 – 12:00
April 13 – CCNS Final Concert! 3:00pm – First United, Prince St. Truro – 125 singers from across the province!
Tickets available: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/2025-childrens-chorus-of-nova-scotia-final-concert
PD Opportunity #2 – Workshops with Susan!
Join Susan for a 2 hour workshop for Music Educators, Conductors, Singing Leaders and Music Students.
TWO for ONE interactive, soul and tool-kit filling workshops! Come after school to absorb fun, transferrable activities that work in the elementary & junior high classroom, choir and band!
#1 – Sing It In Your Head: From Listening to Inner Hearing
#2 – Improvisation in the Kodály Approach
Workshop Dates/Locations:
April 10, 2025- New Glasgow – 4:30pm – 6:30pm – North Nova Education Centre, 343 Park St
April 14, 2025 – Annapolis Valley – 4:30-6:30pm – Kings County Academy, 35 Gary Pearl Dr
April 15, 2025 – HRM – Upper Tantallon – 4:30 – 6:30pm – Location TBA
Please select your location during registration below.
Registration Fees:
NSCF Individual Members/Leaders of Group Members: FREE
NSCF Non-members: $20 per person
Payment can be made via etransfer to nscfadmin@nscf.ca. Please use the security answer SUSAN.
***Individual memberships are available for $35 per year. Student Group Membership is $55 per year. Available here: www.nscf.ca website – Visit the membership page for more details.
About Susan:
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 in high demand throughout the United States and Europe as a clinician, consultant, author, composer, arranger and choral conductor. An internationally recognized expert in the Kodály approach, Dr. Brumfield is the author of First, We Sing! Kodály-Inspired Teaching in the Music Classroom (Hal Leonard), a set of Kodály-based of curriculum and resource materials for K-5 music.
Dr. Brumfield is Founder and Artistic Director of The West Texas Children’s Chorus – with four choirs consisting of singers from Kindergarten through college, serving children throughout the South Plains area, and serves as a teaching lab for TTU Music Education students. The choirs have performed at the Texas Music Educators’ Conference, national conferences of the Organization of American Kodály Educators and the American Orff Schulwerk Association, and has been featured in concerts at Carnegie Hall and other prestigious venues in NYC. www.wtccsings.com.
Dr. Brumfield was honored in both 2012 and 2014 with the Texas Tech University College of Visual and Performing Arts Award for Outstanding Research, and as a two-time finalist for the President’s Book Award. In 2015, Dr. Brumfield was the recipient of the Louisiana Tech University Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award.