Ithaca, New York

Dr. Baruch J. Whitehead, Director
Dr. Jennifer Haywood, Associate Director
 
About our Directors
 
Baruch WhiteheadDr Baruch J. Whitehead, Associate Professor of Music Education at Ithaca College is the founder of the Ithaca College Orff certification program.  He has taught Orff certification programs at Boston University, in Boston, Massachusetts and Marchall University in Huntington, West Virginia, where he was director of the Marching Thunder Marching Band, pep band and concert band.  He has also presented research on The Effect of Music-Intensive Intervention on Mathematics Scores of Middle and High School Students at the International Arts and Humanities conference in Hawaii.  His article was published in Reverberations, entitled "The Spirit of the Schulwerk."  He presented at the 2003 NYSSMA summer music conference a workshop entitled the African-American Native American Connection.  Exeter University in England accepted his research proposal on Mathematics and Music.  He is the director of the multicultural chorus VOICES (part of the Ithaca Community Choruses) in the Greater Ithaca Community, the director for the Syracuse gospel choir Unshackled, and he is the founder of the Greater Ithaca Activity Center African Dance and Drumming After School Program. Baruch studied at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria.  He has been a featured presenter for the West Virginia Orff-Schulwerk Association and the Texas Orff-Schulwerk Association.  He served as clinician, conductor, and adjudicator throughout West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Georgia and Central New York. He is energetic and has a vast knowledge of diverse types of music from Gospel to Native American to African pieces.

Ph.D., Capella University; M.F.A., University of Florida; BA, B.M.E., Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
 

jennifer haywoodJennifer Haywood holds degrees in music education, performance, and conducting from Ithaca College and from the University of Toronto. She is currently entering her sixth year as Assistant Professor of Music Education teaching music education and conducting courses at Ithaca College where she serves as conductor of the Ithaca College Intergenerational Choir. Prior to her work at Ithaca College, Dr. Haywood taught in the Ithaca City Public Schools, served as Director of Choral Activities for St. Bonaventure University, served as conductor of the Master Chorale of the University of Toronto, and served as the Elmer Iseler Conducting Fellow at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Haywood has been active as conductor and clinician at regional, state, and international presentations. Haywood's current research focuses on including individuals with special needs in choirs. She has been published in General Music Today, The Canadian Music Educator, and Music Education Research of Exetor University. Dr. Haywood also contributed four repertoire resource guides to the upcoming book Teaching Music Through Performance in Choir, Volume 2. She has been on the faculty of the Ithaca Children's Choir for over twelve years where she currently conducts the Senior Choir and co-conducts the Young Men's Chorus of Ithaca. Dr, Haywood also regularly volunteers with the Greater Ithaca Activities Center 5 and 6 year old program as well as the Community Unity outreach program with Baruch Whitehead.

She is honored to be a part of the VOICES Chorus of the Ithaca Community Chorus organization and strives to create an inclusive environment for all people with the music of many times and many places. She strongly feels that all voices are welcome and all voices are beautiful!

 

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 Ithaca Community Chorus
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