Rachel Gibson

Rachel Gibson, Ph.D., is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Education at Westfield State University and taught elementary music and choir for 15 years prior to her current position. She is certified in the Orff and Kodly approaches, an instructor for Kodly summer institutes, and a national and international clinician. During a ten-month sabbatical in Guatemala and Nicaragua, she lived in several communities and engaged in song collection, research, and Spanish language study. As a Fulbright Global Scholar, she taught and researched at Universidad de Mlaga in Spain. — biography from ¡Canta Conmigo!: Songs and Singing Games from Guatemala and Nicaragua… (més)