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KURT CERESKE , Certification Coordinator
and KASC President, received his Bachelors of Science in
Education from Dr. Martin Luther College, New Ulm, MN, and a
Masters in Music Education from Michigan State University. He
has completed Kodály Pedagogy/Solfege Levels I, II, and III.
Kurt is also a professional singer and actor having performed
extensively in the Los Angeles area. He has been the music
specialist at St. Paul's First Lutheran School since 1996.
LASZLO CSER, MA, graduate of the Bartok
Conservatory, Budapest, CSULA and USC, was Professor of Music at
Los Angeles City College where he taught Harmony, Ear Training,
Piano, Orchestration, Jazz Piano, Jazz Harmony and Improvisation,
He continues to perform professionally throughout Southern California as a
pianist, arranger, accompanist and bandleader. Mr. Cser is the
author of Harmony and Musicianship with Solfege.
DR. KATHERINE HICKEY, OAKE -Past President, is an experienced music
educator specializing in early childhood and elementary music
education, Kodály pedagogy/solfege, and choral music. Bachelor
and Master of Arts degrees in piano performance were completed
at California State Universities at Los Angeles and Long Beach,
and included a year of intense music study at the Franz Liszt
Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary, 1970-71. She earned a
Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Music Education from the
University of Southern California with honors as Outstanding
Music Education Graduate.
Dr. Hickey is currently Associate Professor of Music at
University of Redlands School of Music. She is developing a
sight-singing, ear training curriculum based on the movable do
Hungarian solfege model. Dr. Hickey is President of the national
Organization of American Kodály Educators. A frequent presenter
at local, state and national conferences, her presentations
include sessions and seminars on nurturing the young singer,
vocal development and repertoire for the young singer, vocal
abuse, singing games to musical literacy, art music listening in
the classroom, brain research and music, and Kodály
certification courses.
MARILYN SOUSA, a graduate of CSULA, has taught for over
thirty-five years as a classroom teacher and a music teacher. She
began her Kodály training with Katinka Daniel in 1984 and
completed certification in 1992. She has served on the KASC Board
in a variety of positions, including president. She also served on
the OAKE Board. Since 1974, Marilyn has been nationally known for
her multicultural workshops in music and dance, including
presentations at five OAKE Conferences. Retired from full-time
teaching in 1997, she continues to present workshops and teaches
part time at CSULA.
NIKÉ ST. CLAIR, DMA, a native of Hungary, received
her musical training at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest,
Hungary. Mrs. St. Clair earned triple majors in Aural
Skills-Music Theory, Choral Conducting and Music Education. She
has since completed doctoral coursework and qualifying exams at
the University of Southern California towards a doctoral degree
in Choral Conducting. She is currently on the faculty of Azusa
Pacific University and Santa Monica College where she teaches
Aural Skills and Chamber Choir, and is a professional choral
(L.A. Master Chorale) and studio singer in the L.A. area.
PAMELA WADE received her MA in Early Childhood Education
from Pacific Oaks College. She is past president of the
Organization of American Kodály Educators. At Ambassador College’s
Imperial School in Pasadena, she taught kindergarten through
eighth grade music for many years. At the suggestion of Dr.
Herbert Zipper, Mrs. Wade researched and developed and outstanding
early childhood program, which included pregnant mothers. She has
taught the Kodály Approach at Silver Lake College in Wisconsin,
USC, CSULA, and is currently teaching part time at Palomar
College.
KASC Founder . . .
DR. KATINKA SCIPIADES DANIEL holds a
teaching degree from the Notre Dame Teacher’s college in Hugary, a
music education degree and piano teaching degree from the Liszt
Academy in Hungary, and she holds a doctoral degree from the
Pazmany Peter University in Hungary. Her dissertation is titled,
The Value of Music Education in the History of Mankind.
Dr. Daniel taught music education, solfege and piano for 22 years
in Budapest before coming the US in 1960. She developed the
curriculum of the Kodaly Method for American children with the
approval of Zoltán Kodály and Jenö Adám as well as presented it,
by request, at the first International Kodály Conference held in
Oakland, CA, 1971. Katinka Daniel is the author of several books
and videos, including Kodály Concept in America, with the late Dr.
David Falconer. She is also the founder of KASC, Kodály
Association of Southern California. Dr. Daniel continues to teach
piano, train music educators, and to lecture at many of the
prominent universities throughout the United States and Canada.
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