Faculty

Karen Petty

Karen Petty has been teaching Elementary Music and Movement for 40+ years. She currently teaches General Music Kindergarten - 5th grade plus Chorus and Recorder Consort at Gold Rush Elementary School in Parker, Colorado. In addition, she teaches adults in various summer Orff Teacher Training programs. Education: BME University of Northern Colorado 1981; Orff Certification 1989 UNC; Masters in Education, Curriculum & Instruction – Creative Arts in Learning Lesley College 1996. Karen is currently serving as Treasurer of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association; formerly she served as Recording Secretary and Regional Representative. She is the past president of both the Rocky Mountain and the New York City chapters of AOSA and has presented at 8 AOSA national conferences and for many schools and Orff chapters. Karen recently published Mostly Modal with Movement and More - a collection of 21 original pieces for Orff ensemble - with Beatin' Path Publications.

Leslie Timmons

Leslie Timmons is Director of Orff-Schulwerk Teacher Education Courses in the Caine College of the Arts, Utah State University. She is Professor Emerita in the Music Department where she taught the flute studio and music education. She is Orff specialist with the Cache Children's Choir. After completing degrees in Music Education and Flute Performance, she received a Fulbright grant to do post-graduate work at the Orff Institute Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She was a founding member of the Utah Chapter of AOSA and has served as Artist-in-Residence for Utah Arts Council and on the national boards of the American Recorder Society and the American Orff-Schulwerk Association. She was local chair for the AOSA professional conference in Salt Lake City, November 2019. Leslie has been honored with Utah Music Educators Association's "Utah Outstanding Music Educator” and “Elementary Educator of the Year” and was inducted into the UMEA Hall of Fame in 2022.