Education

Professional Education

The Committee on
Continuing Professional Education

This committee creates and promotes guild programs as “education for a lifetime.”  A primary responsibility of this committee is the planning of the biennial Conference on Organ Pedagogy.  In addition, it works through the Regional Councillors to promote the involvement of the educational resource  individuals in the Regions and to encourage  local and Regional attention to the earning of  Guild certificates.

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COPE Committee members: 

Shelly Moorman-Stahlman, David Heller,
Jack Mitchener, Kimberly Marshall

Saunders
Russell Saunders
(1921-1992)

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Committee on
Continuing Professional Education

Shelly Moorman-Stahlman, DMA - Director
Lebanon Valley College
101 North College Ave.
Annville, PA 17003
W: 717-867-6278
moorman@lvc.edu

David Heller, DMA, AAGO
1100 Garraty Road
San Antonio, TX 78209-6015
Department of Music
Trinity University
One Trinity Place
San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
S: 210-999-8249
Fax: 210-999-7012
H: 210-820-0435
dheller@trinity.edu

Kimberly Marshall, PhD
Arizona State University
Herberger College of the Arts
Box 870405
Tempe, AZ 85287-0405
S: 480-727-6222
Fax: 480-965-2659
H: 602-952-1212
kimberly.marshall@asu.edu

Jack Mitchener, DMA
Associate Professor of Organ
Oberlin College Conservatory of Music
77 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074-1588
440-775-8210 (work))
jack.mitchener@oberlin.edu

The primary responsibility of the Committee on Continuing Professional Education is to create and promote Guild programs as "education for a lifetime." In addition, it works through the Regional Councillors to promote the involvement of the education coordinators in the regions and to encourage local and regional attention to the earning of Guild certificates.

 

Task Force on Improvisation

Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, DMA - Director
3255 Bluett Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
C: 734-2769684
pamela.ruiterfeenstra@gmail.com

Jeffrey Brillhart, MM
320 Wister Road
Wynnewood, PA 19096
C: 610-639-5515
jeffrey398@aol.com

Bruce Neswick, MMUS, FAGO, FRSCM
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10025
C: 404-803-1908
W: 212-316-7519
bneswick@stjohndivine.org

William Porter
258 Olivier Avenue
Westmount, Quebec H3Z 2C5
CANADA
H: 514-931-8098
Cell: 514-712-7716
wrporter@rcn.com