Off-Campus and International
Graduate Studies

PENNY MAHONEY BS, MA, ED.D.
Orff Schulwerk Level I-III, Master Class, and Endorsed Trainer in Education Through Movement, is currently a music specialist, K-5 at theWolf Swamp Road School, Longmeadow, MA and a visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. She acquired her Orff Schulwerk certifications from Grace Nash and is an Endorsed Trainer in Phyllis Weikart's Education through Movement. Penny is an active clinician throughout the United States. She has also served as President of the Central Texas Orff Chapter and regional representative to the Board of Trustees of AOSA.

TOM RICE
Tom Rice has been the recorder instructor for Orff teacher training courses at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Tarleton State University in Texas and now begins his first year at Bridgewater State College. He has presented workshops on using the Orff process in a standards based setting, integrating music and English language arts, and how to use the Orff process to encourage students to improvise. Most recently, Tom performed on tenor recorder with Stephen Calantropio at the American Orff Schulwerk Association's National Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. Tom graduated in 2002 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Bachelors Degree in Music Education and received his Masters Degree in School Administration from Cambridge College in 2008. He has taken Orff levels 1, 2, 3 for certification as well as a master class on elemental music with Stephen Calantropio. Holding certifications in music education and as an elementary principal, he currently teaches general music, chorus, and band for the Natick Public Schools. He resides in Holliston, Massachusetts.