Orff Approach with Chris Judah-Lauder

Chris Judah-Lauder  Bio:

Chris Judah Lauder, a Past President of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, served as the 2017 AOSA National Conference Chair in Fort Worth, Texas, 2009 AOSA National Conference Chair in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1995 AOSA Local Conference Chair, and is currently serving as an AOSA mentor. She earned her Masters Degree in Music Education at Indiana University in South Bend, received her Orff Schulwerk certification at University of Illinois University, Urbana-Champaign and completed an Orff Master Class with Richard Gill. She has forty years of experience teaching music, movement, recorder, singing and drumming to K-8th grade students in public, private and independent schools. She was the Fine Arts Coordinator for Good Shepherd Episcopal School in Dallas, TX and co-wrote the Music Curriculum for GSES and the Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Indiana.  Chris’ Orff Ensemble was selected to perform for the Opening Ceremony for the 1995 American Orff-Schulwerk Association National Conference.   

Her Orff, Recorder and Drum Ensembles were also invited to perform under her direction for the Texas Music Educators Conferences in 2000, 2003, 2007, and her Drum group performed for PASIC in 2000. Her middle school students recorded a CD titled Select Beats in the Charlie Pride Recording Studio.

She has taught Orff Schulwerk certification courses to adults at fourteen universities over the past thirty years, presented over 200 conference sessions and workshops at national conferences, state music educator’s associations, school districts, and Orff chapters throughout the US, Canada, China, South Korea.  She is currently serving as a Music Consultant for Title One schools in Texas, working directly in the classroom with the music teacher.

 Mrs. Judah-Lauder was a contributing senior author to the 2004 McGraw-Hill textbook series Spotlight on Music and has published articles in The Orff Echo, General Music Today, Reverberations, and GSES publications.  Chris has seventeen publications including:  Drum with a Passion, To Drum, Canya Conga, In the Modes (Beatin’ Path Publ); Fun with Boomwhackers®, Boom Boom Classics, (Warner Brothers/Alfred); Recorder Games, Recorder Success, It Takes Two (Sweet Pipes); and Games Groups, and Gems (Heritage Music Press).

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