Biography

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 recently piloted a newly conceived 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.

In August, 2007, Steve was appointed as the first Education Director of the American Orff-Schulwerk association. As a paid employee of A.O.S.A., he will work closely with the Professional Development Committee, Executive Director and staff and the Executive Board to isure the smooth , year to year flow of Teacher Training programs, the Teacher Trainer Apprenticeship program and other tasks.