Baruch Whitehead

Dr. Baruch J. Whitehead, an associate professor of music education at Ithaca College, is an elementary music specialist with the Orff-Schulwerk Process. He is the founder of the Ithaca College Orff certification program and lead teacher of the Orff certification program at Boston University. Dr. Whitehead studied at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria and founded the Orff-Schulwerk Certification Program at Marshall University. Dr. Whitehead was a featured presenter at the International Arts and Humanities conference in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2003, 2004 and 2005 for his research paper in the area of music and learning and diversity in music education. His article entitled The Spirit of the Schulwerk was published in Reverberations. Dr. Whitehead has presented workshops at MENC, NYSSMA, NJMEA and the American Orff-Schulwerk Association national conferences, as well as a workshop entitled “Making the Connection” African-American and Native American Music, in Tenerife, Spain for the 2004 International Music education Conference. He has been a featured presenter for the West Virginia Orff-Schulwerk Association, Twin Tier Orff Association and the Texas Orff-Schulwerk Association along with serving as a clinician, conductor, and adjudicator through West Virginia, Florida, Texas, Ohio and Central New York. Dr. Whitehead traveled to Winchester, England to present a paper on the Music of the Civil Rights Movement in April of 2006. He is the director of the multicultural chorus Voices