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Betty Bertaux
Betty Bertaux is widely regarded as an authority on vocal and musical development in children. She is currently active as a composer for treble voices and serves as a consultant, clinician and guest conductor for professional conferences internationally and academic workshops specializing in children's choirs, the child's voice, aural skills and choral music education. . Bertaux is the Director Emeritus and a member of the Board of Directors of the Children's Chorus of Maryland, an organization she founded in 1976 and which has become a prototype for community children’s choruses around the U.S. . She was the co-founder of the American Kodály Institute at Loyola College of Maryland, a training program for music educators and choral conductors. She has also served as the Coordinator of the National Conference of the Organization of American Kodály Educators (OAKE) and as the Coordinator of the Summer Kodály Institute, Holy Names College. In March, 2011, Bertaux received the OAKE's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Academic Highlights
Bertaux as an adjunct professor for VanderCook College of Music in Chicago and former faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and Holy Names College in Oakland, California.

In 2001 she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Music Education from Vandercook College of Music for her contribution to the field of choral music education. Bertaux also holds the degree of Master of Music with Kodály Emphasis from Holy Names College, Oakland, the degree of Master of Music in Composition from the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, and a Certificate of Study with Dr. Edwin E. Gordon in Music Learning Theory from Temple University, Philadelphia. She has pioneered a hybrid approach to teaching advanced music literacy that combines the concepts of the Kodály Method and the Gordon Music Learning Theory; it is used in teacher training programs including the School of Music at James Madison University.

In 2008, she launched the “Sing For Success!” Music Literacy Training Research Project in Hagerstown, MD under funding from the J.S. Plank and D.M. DiCarlo Family Foundation and in partnership with Dr. Dana Rothlisberger of Towson University of Maryland. The study examines the relationship between music literacy training for young children and school performance.

Creative Work
Dr. Bertaux is frequently commissioned as a composer and arranger of music for treble choirs. Her series of choral compositions is published by Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers.

Choral Music with Orchestration

 * Bertaux: Ah, Poor Bird (flute, oboe/clarinet)
 * Bertaux: Blossoms (woodwind quintet)
 * Bertaux: Esa Noche Yo Baila (two trumpets, guitar, percussion)
 * Bertaux: The Gift of Song (three trumpets, piano). (This piece, scored for unison choir, SSA, and SATB, concluded the 2001 O.A.K.E. National Conference.)
 * Bertaux: Song In The Imperative Mood (unpublished, scored for choir, bassoon, clarinet, and piano)
 * Bertaux: This Is the Truth (strings, percussion)
 * Bertaux: Three Songs for Children (string trio, flute, glockenspiel)
 * Bertaux: To Music (full orchestra: for MENC World’s Largest Concert, 1994)
 * Henderson, Ruth Watson: You’ll Never Guess What I Saw (full orchestra)
 * Ward, Samuel A.: America the Beautiful (full orchestra)

Commissions

 * Spring Branch School District (Houston): To Music (unison, descant, piano)
 * Fort Bend Boys Choir (Houston): This Old Man Variations (SSA, piano)
 * Ramona Galey, Trumpet (Houston): Meditations at the Wall (trumpet, piano)
 * Women’s Philharmonic (San Francisco) Brass Ensemble: Fanfare for the Phoenix (brass quintet)
 * Lynn Griebling, Soprano (Houston): Women (soprano, cello, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, piano, percussion)
 * Texas Choral Director’s Association: The Web (SA, piano)
 * Young Naperville Singers (Illinois): The Gift of Song (SSA, 3 trumpets, piano)
 * West Virginia Music Educator’s Association: Song In The Imperative Mood (unison, bassoon, clarinet, piano)
 * Flushing Community Schools, (Michigan): America the Beautiful (full orchestra)
 * Contra Costa Children’s Chorus (California): California (a capella)

Publications
“Teaching Children of All Ages to Use the Singing Voice and How to Work with Out-of-Tune Singers.” Darrel Walters and Cynthia Crump Taggert (Eds.), Readings in Music Learning Theory. G.I.A. Publications, Inc. Chicago, IL. 1989