E023 Part II: Darla Meek

Darla Meek shares how we can implement the Orff approach with our children's church choirs. You'll hear how to use scripture and hymns as a guide to creating movement, speech, instrumental, and vocal pieces.

Darla Meek is the Music Education Coordinator and Lecturer at Texas A&M University in Commerce. She teaches undergraduate and graduate elementary music education classes and supervises student teachers. She earned her Bachelor of Music Education from Dallas Baptist University and her Master of Music from Southern Methodist University. Darla also earned a Performer’s Certificate from the Performing Artist’s Musical Theatre Conservatory in Dallas. She is currently working toward her Doctor of Education in Supervision, Curriculum, and Instruction.

Darla is certified in Kodaly and Orff Schulwerk and serves as a teacher trainer for the American Orff Schulwerk Association in both Basic Pedagogy Level I and Movement for Orff Levels Courses. She has served as assistant conductor for the Mesquite Children’s Chorus and the Children’s Chorus of Collin County and has served as Children’s Choir Coordinator for 3 churches in the Dallas area.

Darla has written children’s choir curricula for LIfeway Christian Resources and Celebrating Grace Inc. Her recorder method books Journey Around the Globe with Recorder and Flight 2: Another Journey Around the Globe With Recorder were published by Sweet Pipes, Inc. Her resource for church musicians All Things Bright and Beautiful is available through Chorister’s Guild.

She is a member of AOSA, OAKE, KET, TCDA, TMEA, Dalcroze Society of America, the College Music Society, and NAfME. She is a past President of the North Texas Chapter of AOSA. Darla is married to Keith Meek and has two children - Gregory and Aubrey.

Darla's website: www.darlameek.com

All Things Bright and Beautiful: https://www.choristersguild.org/store/cgbk74-all-things-bright-and-beautiful/7646/

TAMUC website:

http://www.tamuc.edu/academics/colleges/humanitiesSocialSciencesArts/departments/music/facultyStaff/darlaMeek.aspx

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