KMI's Internationally-Renowned Faculty includes the following:

 Valerie Becker, Charlyn Bethell, Margaret Callaghan, Karrie Chan-Lam, Susan  Cleveland, Joanne Crowell, Mary Epstein, David Hodgkins, Martha Holmes, Brian  Michaud, Tom Morris, Susie Petrov, Elaine Quilichini, Jonathan Rappaport, David  Richardson, Wendy Silverberg, Gabór Virágh, Katalin Virágh, Pamela Wood. Guest  Artist:Gilbert De Greeve, President International Kodály Society

 About Our Conductor: David Hodgkins
 Recently featured in Choral Director Magazine (Jan. 2006), conductor David
 Hodgkins has delighted audiences in the greater Boston area for over 15 years with
 "creative programs, sung with enthusiasm and tonal beauty"(Ed Tapper, Bay
 Windows). Mr. Hodgkins is the Artistic Director of Coro Allegro in Boston which
 Boston Globe critic Michael Manning deemed "one of Boston's most accomplished
 choruses", The New England Classical Singers in Andover, and is  Director of
 Music  at the Commonwealth School in Boston. His ensembles have been featured
 at  ACDA and GALA Music Festivals, and collaborated with the Boston Cecilia,
 Handel  and Haydn Society, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and the Landmarks
 Orchestra.

 Mr. Hodgkins has also made numerous guest appearances as music  festival
 conductor and conducting clinician, and currently serves on the Advisory  Board
 of  The Boston City Singers, Jane Money, Artistic Director. A champion of
 contemporary music, Mr. Hodgkins has conducted world premiere performances
 of works by Patricia Van Ness, Daniel Pinkham, Charles Fussell, Alan Fletcher,
 Kenneth  Fuchs, Richard St. Clair, Aaron Rosenthal, and Ruth Lomon, and Boston
 premieres  of works by Marianne Martinez, Rebecca Clarke, Arvo Part, and William
 Grant Still. He  has released two critically acclaimed compact discs entitled "In the
 Clearing" and  "somewhere i have never traveled" with Coro Allegro. Mr. Hodgkins
 received a BMus  in voice, piano and harpsichord from the University of
 Massachusetts at Amherst,  and earned his Master of Music in choral conducting
 from Temple University in  Philadelphia. Mr. Hodgkins also was a conducting Fellow
 at both the Aspen and  Sandpoint Music Festivals. His conducting mentors include
 Alan Harler, Wayne  Abercrombie, Fiora Contino, Paul Vermel, James Roth, and
 Gunther Schuller. Mr.  Hodgkins has been on the faculties of the New England
 Conservatory, University of  Massachusetts/Amherst, Temple University and Clark
 University.

 Please note: The Kodály Music Institute at New England Conservatory reserves
 the right to substitute instructors.