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Robert H. KlotmanProfessor Emeritus of Music EducationRobert H. Klotman served as the Chair of the Music Education Department from 1969 to 1984 and taught both graduate and undergraduate courses. He retired in 1988 after a long, distinguished career as a music educator, writer, conductor, violinist, and music arranger. He received the Bachelor of Science in Education from Ohio Northern University, Master of Arts in Music from Western Reserve University, and Doctor of Education from Columbia University, Teachers College, where his doctoral thesis, Curriculum for Music Education in the Cleveland Heights Public Schools, was published by the Cleveland Heights Board of Education in 1954.Teaching career: At Indiana University he taught the following courses: Research in Music Education, College Music Teaching, Foundations of Music Education, Administration and Supervision in Music, Instrumental Conducting, and String Techniques. In the public schools he taught both instrumental and vocal music in Dola, Euclid, and Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and was the Director of Music Education for the Akron, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan Public Schools. He was a visiting professor and lecturer at the University of
Michigan, Boston University, Brigham Young University, University of
Bar-Ilan and Rubin Academy in Israel, the Shanghai Conservatory of
Music in the People's Republic of China, Zagreb Conservatory of
Music in Yugoslavia, Fu Jen University in Taiwan, Teachers College,
Columbia University, and the University of Alberta in Edmonton,
Canada. Publications: He is the author of Teaching Strings (first and second
editions), Learning To Teach Through Playing, String Technique
and Pedagogy, The School Music Administrator and Supervisor, Action
with Strings, and the music education section in The
Encyclopedia of Education. He was the editor of and contributor
to Scheduling Music Classes, the Music Performance Trust
Funds Guide, the string column in The Instrumentalist
magazine, and was the founder, contributor, and editor of
Orchestra News. He co-authored the following texts:
Administrator and Supervising Music Humanities Through the Black
Experience, and Foundations of Music Education. His
compositions and arrangements include the following: Renaissance
Suite, String Literature for Expanding Technique (co-arranged), Four
Violins in Concert, Four Chorales harmonized by J. S. Bach, Two
Moods in ¾ Time, The Yellow Rose of Texas. Performance: Conductor of the Honors Orchestra, Great Lake Music Camp, 1982-1996 Clinician at Interlocken, Michigan, music camp Guest conductor or clinician: All-State Orchestras in 27 states. Clinician and speaker at state meetings throughout the United States Conductor of MENC Eastern Division Orchestra Conductor of the South Central Indiana Youth Symphony Orchestra Conductor of the Oak Park Civic Symphony Orchestra, Oak Park, Michigan Conductor of the Michigan Symphony Orchestra Conductor of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra Conductor of the Terra Haute Symphony Orchestra Conductor of the Akron Youth Symphony Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Akron Symphony Orchestra Assistant conductor of the Ohio Symphony Orchestra Conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Children's Concert, January 1969 Violinist with the Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, 1949-1956 Violinist with touring orchestras including the Ballet Russe and
Sadler Wells Offices held: Board of Directors for Chamber Music America, 1993-1996 Publications Chair of American String Teachers Association, 1984- Editorial Board of the Music Educators Journal Advisory Board of the Comprehensive Musicianship Project President of the Indiana University Credit Union Board of Directors, 1981-1982 Board of Directors, Music Education for the Handicapped, 1980-1986 President of the Music Educators National Conference, 1975-1978 President of the North Central Division, MENC, 1972-1974 Chair of the MENC National Commision on Teacher Education, 1968-1972 Chair of the MENC Hall of Fame Committee Chair of the MENC National Commission on Minority Concerns in Music President of the American String Teacher Association 1962-1964
Awards: "Distinguished Service Award" from both Music Educators National Conference and American String Teachers Association, 1987 "Sagamore of the Wabash" - Indiana's highest civilian award, by the Governor of Indiana, Evan Bayh "Outstanding Hoosier Musician of the Year" by Indiana Music Educators Association, 1986 Honorary Doctor of Music, Ohio Northern University, May 1984 Special citation from the Black Music Caucus, 1978 Citation from the New York Chapter of Black Music Caucus, 1976 "Louis and Selma Miller Trust Fund Distinguished Residency" at Wichita State University, February 1976 Citation from the Children's Concert Society of Akron Special citation from the National Association of Negro Musicians, 1968
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