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

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David Hodgkins: Choir Director and Level III Conducting Instructor
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.

Pamela Wood: Solfège and African-American Music Instructor
Ms. Wood has appeared as soprano soloist with the Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, London and Israel Philharmonics, and American Composers Orchestras under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, Dennis Russell Davies, Jacob Druckman, John Adams, and Zubin Mehta. She has concertized throughout Europe, Canada, the U.S. and the Caribbean. Recognized for her work with twentieth-century composers, she has premiered and recorded with Steve Reich & Musicians on the Angel, ECM, Nonesuch, and Revels labels; has been acclaimed for her performances of monodramatic operas including Dominick Argento's Miss Havisham's Wedding Night and Nancy Van de Vate's A Night in the Royal Ontario Museum; and is in demand as a workshop clinician in the areas of voice, solfège, and folk song research. She studied with Eunice Alberts, Olga Averino, R. Louise Burge, Sylvia Olden Lee, David Blair McClosky, Donna Roll, Rawn Spearman, and Paul Ulanowsky; and earned the B. Mus. Ed. at Howard University, M.M. in Vocal Performance at University of Massachusetts, and Advanced Certificates at the Kodály Musical Training Institute and the Kodály Center of America. Ms. Wood serves as a member of the Boards of the Kodály Center of America and the Boston Children's Chorus, on the faculties of the Kodály Music Institute and Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at the New England Conservatory, and as Senior Lecturer in Music at MIT. Her achievements are cited in several Marquis' Who's Who publications.

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