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| Holly Stumpf |
| Music, Harrington School |
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| Holly Stumpf received her B.A. from the University
of Rochester and a MEd in Integrated Arts from Lesley College, Cambridge,
MA. She attended the first one-year course given in English at the
Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria and the Orff Schulwerk approach
to music education became the foundation of her teaching both practically
and philosophically. In addition, she received her Artist Diploma
in flute from the Mozarteum in Salzburg. |
| In the early '70s Mrs. Stumpf was an Orff Schulwerk
specialist at various schools in London, England, including the American
School in London. Since 1975 she has been an elementary music specialist
in the Lexington Public Schools. Currently at Harrington School, she
continues to espouse Orff Schulwerk ideals and practices and organizes
an Orff Ensemble and Dance Ensemble. She has also taught preschool
children at various nursery schools in the Lexington area and gave
music and movement classes at the Goethe Institute in Boston. She
has taught children’s classes in percussion ensemble for the
Lexington Community Education summer program. |
| Mrs. Stumpf has presented workshops for music specialists
and classroom teachers at the Borough of Brent in London, at the Lexington
Public Schools and at various nursery schools. She gave workshops
for the New England Chapter of the American Orff Schulwerk Association
and for the AOSA chapter in Columbus, Ohio, as well as for the Boston
Association for the Education of Young Children and the New England
Association for the Education of Young Children. For several summers
she taught Orff Schulwerk classes for teachers at the New England
Conservatory of Music Summer School. She has also been a guest instructor
at Wheelock College in Boston and at Dean College in Franklin, MA. |
| Mrs. Stumpf has been particulatry noted for her development
of inter-disciplinary curricula and her collaboration with classroom
teachers. This interest led to the award of a Horace Mann Grant. She
led a workshop on an inter-disciplinary unit for the AOSA New England
Chapter in February 1999 and presented another at the 1999 National
Conference of the AOSA in Phoenix, Arizona. During the 2001-2002 school
year she is involved in a project to utilize technology to document
inter-disciplinary work with fourth graders. In July 2000 and 2001
she co-taught a summer course in Choral Techniques K-12 at UMassLowell. |
| Mrs. Stumpf performs locally as a flautist and conducts
the Junior Choir at Follen Church in Lexington, where she co-directs
a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta each spring. She enjoys music making
with her husband and two daughters. |
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