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Steven Calantropio, recently retired after 31 years of teaching in the River Edge, N.J. public schools, is a specialist in Orff Schulwerk pedagogy and practice. He has served as clinician at numerous regional Orff Schulwerk chapters as well as the National Conference of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (A.O.S.A.) and state Music Education conferences. Mr. Calantropio holds an Orff-Kodály-Dalcroze certificate from the Manhattan School of Music as well as an Orff Certificate from the Orff Institute in Salzburg Austria. He has been named a New Jersey ‘Master Teacher of Music’. Mr. Calantropio served as principle lecturer at the seventh annual meeting of the Australian National Conference of Orff-Schulwerk Associations (A.N.C.O.S.A.) in Adelaide, Australia. Steven has been awarded the New Jersey Governor’s Teacher Recognition Award and in May, 1993 he received the Achievement in Music Award from Ohio University, his graduate school alma mater. Mr. Calantropio has served as clinician at Carl Orff Canada National Conferences and as instructor at the English Summer Course of the Orff Institute. He has been a guest lecturer, levels teacher and conference presenter at Orff Schulwerk training programs in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. Mr. Calantropio’s innovative Master Class in Elemental Music has been presented numerous times in the United States and Canada. He has developed and presented the Master Level IV in Orff Schulwerk at George Mason University. His arrangement of 5 Spirituals for Chorus with Orff instrument accompaniment is published by Warner Bothers publications. Schott Music Company has published Steven's supplement to the American Orff-Schulwerk Editions entitled Pieces and Processes. He is also a certified computer technician for Apple Computer and has taught courses in digital technology in a number of locations. Steve currently serves as the American Orff-Schulwerk Association's first Education Director
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Vita
EDUCATION
• B.S ; William Paterson College (NJ) Music Education, 1971
• M.F.A ; Ohio University, (OH) Applied Music, 1973
• Certificate, Manhattan School of Music ( NY) Dalcroze-Orff-Kodály, 1979
• Certificate, Orff Institute ( Austria ) Orff-Schulwerk, 1982
University Teaching Experience
Served as an adjunct summer teacher at various colleges and universities including George Mason University (VA), Bridgewater State College, (MA); Columbia University (NY) Crane School of Music (NY) St. Mary’s University ( TX) Central Connecticut University (CT) Towson State University (MD) University of Florida ( FL) University of St. Thomas ( MN), Anderson University (IN) and the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto, ON)
Elementary / Secondary Teaching Experience
PUBLICATIONS
Books
• 5 Spirituals for Chorus; Warner Bros. Inc. 1994
• Pieces and Processes; Schott and Sons, Inc. 2005
Articles
• 'The Need for Master Classes'. The Ostinato, Carl Orff Canada Journal, May 2006
• Process Teaching: Finding the Elements’. The Orff Echo, Summer, 2004
• ‘The Computer and the Orff Teacher’; Orff Schulwerk Informationen Bulletin # 68, Summer 2002
• Contributor; Strategies for Teaching, Music Educators National Conference, 1996
• ‘Some Thoughts on Music Technology and the Orff Teacher’. The Orff Echo, Summer, 1996
• Tempo Magazine: ( NJMEA) Winter, 1992
• Journal of the Australian National Council of Orff-Schulwerk Associations: 1990
• Journal of Australian Music and Musicians, 1983
PRESENTATIONS AND SPECIAL COURSES
International
- International Instructor, Orff Schulwerk, Levels I-IV Australian Catholic University, Melbourne; January, 1996
- Instructor, Summer Course, Orff Institute, Salzburg, Austria; July, 1992
- Presenter, Australian National Conference of Orff Schulwerk Associations;July 1988
- Presenter; National Conference; Carl Orff Canada, Toronto, B.C.; April 1991; May 1998, April 2004
National
• Frequent presenter at National Conference of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association
Regional and Local
• Frequent presenter at local chapters of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association Presenter at State M.E.N.C. Conferences in NJ, NY, MD, PA, MN, AB,NM.
ORGANIZATIONS
• Regional Representative, Board of Trustees, American Orff -Schulwerk Association, 1989-1991
• President, River Edge Education Association,
• President and Founder, Cherry Hill Investment Associates, 1998
MEMBERSHIPS
• A.O.S.A., M.E.N.C., N.E.A., Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Kappa Delta Pi
HONORS AND AWARDS
• Recipient, Achievement in Music Award, Ohio University, 1993
• Recipient, NJ Governor’s Teacher Recognition Award, 1991
• Recipient, first annual Master Teacher of Music Award, New Jersey Music Educators Association, 1979
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