Prices for each seminar:
1 Credit: $500
22.5 PDPs: $350

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• The $100 deposit is non-refundable.

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Kate Offer is the Music & Movement Specialist for the Pacific Primary School, a preschool in San Francisco.  She holds a master's degree in Music Education with a Kodály Emphasis from Holy Names University in Oakland, as well as certification in the Orff approach from the San Francisco International Orff Course, and a fellowship in songleading from the Virginia Theological Seminary where she studied with Ysaye Barnwell of "Sweet Honey in the Rock" and composer Alice Parker.  She has worked as a conductor with the San Francisco Boys Chorus, the Piedmont East Bay Children's Chorus, and the Young Women's Choral Project of San Francisco.  

Ms. Offer is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists, and has performed with a number of Bay Area choirs including the SF Symphony Chorus, CappellaSF, and Volti.  As her alter ego, Kate Offer, Very Melodramatic Soprano, Kate performs a comic song recital titled "Aria Kidding," at venues throughout the Bay Area. In mid-November 2016, a little casual singing with two friends at a protest event turned into 90 minutes of songleading for 150 people who cried, and laughed, and held hands with strangers as they raised their voices together.  Since then, Kate has organized community singing and lead protest singing for hundreds of people.  She also runs Songs from the Sandbox, a YouTube channel of sing-along songs for children and families where she is currently working on a playlist of protest songs for young children.  Check it out at www.YouTube.com/songsfromthesandbox. 

Kelly Graeber is a music educator and soprano. Growing up in Quincy, MA, Ms. Graeber began her music career studying piano, singing in school choirs and playing clarinet in the North Quincy High School band. In 1993 she was accepted into the Handel & Haydn Society Vocal Arts Program, an opportunity that would change her path forever. Voice lessons, theory/ ear training and master classes offered there readied her for college study in music.

In 2001, Ms. Graeber completed a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance summa cum laude from the University of Southern Maine where she sang the role of Countess Almaviva in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. While living in Maine, she was a soloist with the Portland Symphony and the Portland Community Chorale.

Continuing her education at the University of Illinois, Ms. Graeber studied voice with the acclaimed soprano Cynthia Haymon. In 2006, she completed a Master of Music in Music Education at The Boston Conservatory and began teaching public school. Ms. Graeber studied Orff-Schulwerk music education at Boston University. In 2009, she visited Budapest on a pedagogy tour to observe music teaching and learning in Hungarian schools that follow the method of Zoltán Kodály. Inspired by the visit, she completed a three-year Certificate program in Kodály teaching with distinction from the Kodály Music Institute in 2014.

Ms. Graeber teaches elementary school general music and chorus at the Morse School in Cambridge, MA. In an era where districts are cutting funding to music, she has expanded the music program, developing a Kodály based program based on frequent music instruction. Students at the Morse School have music classes 3 to 4 times per week. For the past 12 years she has been cantor and choir director at Saint Mary Church in West Quincy.

Equally comfortable on the opera and musical theatre stage, Ms. Graeber sang the roles of Susanna in Marriage of Figaro with Opera by the Bay and Ms. Silverpeal in The Impressario with Mass Theatrica as well as Grace in Annie and Liesl in The Sound of Music with the Cohasset Dramatic Club.

Ms. Graeber lives with her husband and three children in Quincy. When not singing or planning lessons, she enjoys chasing them around, though admittedly looks forward to singing lullabies each night as they drift off to sleep.

John Martha-Reynolds, music teacher for the Cambridge Public Schools, piloted a Kodály inspired program at the Tobin Montessori School in the summer of 2013. Since its implementation, John has created a comprehensive Kodály program that focuses on student engagement and draws from students’ backgrounds to inform repertoire selection and curriculum development. He currently teaches K-2 general music. In addition to his responsibilities in Cambridge, John conducts two ensembles with the Boston Children’s Chorus.

John is an active educator, clinician and performer: As an educator, he has taught in various public schools, after-school music institutions, children’s choruses, and several community center teen leadership programs. As a clinician, John has presented at the state and national level for ACDA, Chorus America, NAfME, and OAKE. 

John holds a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance from New England Conservatory and a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Baldwin Wallace University, formerly Baldwin-Wallace College, Conservatory of Music. Recently, John returned to his undergraduate alma mater to complete all three levels of Orff-Schulwerk certification. In addition, he is a Kodály certified educator, having completed all three levels of Kodály certification at the Kodály Music Institute.