
Brent Gault is professor of music education and interim chair of the Music Education Department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He has served as a presenter and guest lecturer for colleges and music education organizations in the United States, Canada, China, and Ireland, and Singapore.

Bethany Houff has been the choral director at Harrisonburg High School, located in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, since 2003. In addition to conducting the high school choral ensembles, she teaches in the innovative Harrisonburg High School Fine Arts Academy where colleagues in dance, drama, music, visual art, and creative writing teach collaboratively in a sequential and integrated arts curriculum. Beth teaches in the Summer Kodály Programs at Indiana University and SMU.

Georgia A. Newlin, DMA is Adjunct Professor of Music at Bridgewater College in Virginia. She has taught in early childhood and public school music positions for sixteen years and at the collegiate level for eighteen. Georgia is called upon as a conductor for choral festivals, as a clinician for choral workshops, reading sessions and intermediate grade methodology, and as a consultant for curriculum planning. She teaches musicianship, conducting, and ensemble in Kodály programs at Indiana University, University of Hawai’i, and SMU..

Jamie Parker has been teaching in Kodály Levels programs for ten years, including at DePaul University and James Madison University. She taught kindergarten through fourth grade music class and choir in Joliet, Illinois for 11 years. She currently teaches infants/toddlers, preschoolers, and lower elementary children in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. Jamie received her Bachelor of Music Education from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2008 and her Master’s Degree in Music Education with a Kodály Emphasis from The Kodály Institute at Capital University in 2012. She has served as the President of the Midwest Kodály Music Educators of America and the President of the Chicago Area Kodály Educators. She currently serves on several committees for the Organization of American Kodály Educators, including the Teacher Education Committee and the 2025 National Conference Planning Team. She has presented workshops for Northern Illinois University, James Madison University, the Illinois Music Educators Conference, the Chicago Area Kodály Educators, and the Midwest Kodály Music Educators of America Conference.