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Dr. Alan Gumm

Alan Gumm is associate professor of music education at Central Michigan University, where his responsibilities include music education methods, Women’s Chorus, vocal techniques, graduate research, student teacher observation, and music education area coordinator.  He is the author of the book Music Teaching Style: Moving Beyond Tradition, contributing author for The Music Director’s Cookbook: Creative Recipes for a Successful Program, editor and contributing author to The Choral Director’s Cookbook:  Insights and Inspired Recipes for Beginners and Experts, and his research and writing can be found in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Council for Research in Music Education Bulletin, Music Educators Journal, Choral Journal, Visions of Research in Music Education, and the Southeastern Journal of Music Education.  In addition, he serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Music Teacher Education.  Dr. Gumm’s previous experience includes public school choral and general music teaching in Kansas and higher education teaching at the University of Utah, Ithaca College in New York, and McPherson College in Kansas.  His conducting experience includes many U.S. and European choir tours, and he was the founding conductor of the McPherson Chamber Orchestra.  He holds a doctor of philosophy from the University of Utah, a master of music from Fort Hays State University, and a bachelor of arts from McPherson College.

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