Dr. Rene Boyer is an author, consultant And clinician who specializes iN General and Classroom Music Teacher Education

  • Urban/Inner City Music Education  Programs

  • Orff-Schulwerk and Kodaly Approaches in urban settings  

Dr. Rene Boyer is available for

  • District and independent school-based teacher inservices

  • National, state and local teacher education conferences

 

Contact Information:
Reneboyer@goldner.org >

About Rene

She teaches the Master Courses in Orff-Schulwerk at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi.

Rene is a Professor Emeritus of Music Education at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music.  She is known nationally and internationally for her work in multicultural and urban music education. Her publications include: Share the Music, Spotlight on Music, and Music Studio published by Macmillan McGraw-Hill; “Expressions of Freedom:  An Anthology of African American Spirituals” in three volumes;  “Walking in the Light of Freedom”, also in three volumes,  and Songs and Rhythms of a Nation:  A Journey of American Heritage, all published by Hal Leonard.

“The Ballad of the Underground Railroad,” and “United We Stand”, also published by Hal Leonard, are two popular choral works composed by Rene.  Her “Music Fundamentals, Methods and Materials for the Elementary Classroom Teacher published by Addison Wesley Longman Pearson is one our nation’s best selling music textbooks used by classroom teachers as well as music specialists.

Sigame—A Journey through Latin America Using Rhyme, Rhythm and Song, The Quilt Speaks—Secret Messages in Songs and Quilts, and Catfish Blues-Jazz Along the Mississippi, published by Beatin’ Path Publications, LLC. These publications highlight continued need for diversity in repertoire in schools.

Rene received her B.M. and M.M. from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville Illinois and her Doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.  She possesses all Levels of Orff Certification as well as Kodaly Certification from Hungary.

Rene is the recipient of the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Orff Schulwerk Association.

Rene has served as the Masters Course Instructor in Orff at Memphis State University and currently teaches the Master Course in Orff-Schulwerk at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi.