Georgia A. Newlin is an assistant professor of music at Adelphi University teaching music theory, music history, and fundamental keyboarding.  More importantly, she is in the process of designing a music education program to be implemented with the 2009-2010 academic year.  She has taught in early childhood and public school elementary music positions for fifteen years.     

Currently, Dr. Newlin is called upon as a conductor and adjudicator for elementary and middle school choral festivals.  She is a faculty member of the Summer Kodály Institute at Indiana University as well as the Kodály Workshop at James Madison University and is on faculty at the Vocal Arts Camp in Harrisonburg, Va.      

Georgia is President of the Organization of American Kodály Educators and is a member of The VoiceCare Network.  She has been a presenter for numerous music associations and conferences at local, state, and national levels.  She has had articles and choral octavo reviews published in the Choral Journal and the Kodály Envoy.      

Dr. Newlin holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Pedagogy from the Hartt School at the University of Hartford, a Master of Music in Music Education with Kodály Emphasis from Holy Names College, and a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from West Chester University.  Her research interest is in developing part-singing skills in young singers and her dissertation is entitled The Effects of Part-Work Instruction on First Grade Part-Singing Acquisition and Achievement.  Yet, she does not take herself too seriously.

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