Dr. Catherine Schmidt

Cathy Schmidt is a Professor of Music at Winona State University where she teaches music education methods and world music classes. She received both her B.S. and M.S. degrees in music education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Schmidt's doctoral work focused on multicultural music education and her minor field was ethnomusicology. Other professional training includes Orff Certification from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Kodály Master Teacher Certificate from the University of Saint Thomas. In addition to 12 years of elementary classroom experience, Dr. Schmidt has presented workshops throughout the Midwest in Orff-Schulwerk, Kodály techniques, multicultural music, and a variety of other topics in music education. In the summers of 1997 and 2000 she served as guest clinician at the University of Saint Thomas in Manila and taught seminars for the department of education in several other provinces on the island of Luzon in the Philippines where she taught sessions on multicultural music, elementary choral techniques, and music technology. In addition to her work in the university classroom, Dr. Schmidt oversees the music education program, is co-advisor for WSU's Music Educators National Conference Collegiate Chapter, and is project coordinator for the Central Javanese gamelan ensemble. She recently finished a two-year term on the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Music Educators Association serving as Classroom Vice-President.