Dr. David Gonzol
Dr. David J. Gonzol is Associate Professor and Director of Music Education at Shepherd University. A New Jersey native, he holds degrees from Messiah College and Temple University. His Ph.D. is from the University of Maryland at College Park. At the University of St. Thomas, he earned Mastery Certificates in the Kodály and Orff Schulwerk approaches. He taught music in public schools in Pennsylvania and Idaho, and at colleges and universities there, as well as in Maryland and Minnesota.
Dr. Gonzol is a frequent clinician, giving presentations to chapters as well as state, regional, and national conferences of the Organization of American Kodály Educators and the American Orff Schulwerk Association. He is a visiting educator at area schools and libraries, and his research is published in the Philosophy of Music Education Review, Kodály Envoy, and The Mountain Lake Reader. A tenor and recorder player, he has directed school and church choirs, including the 2006 Elementary Honors Choir in Frederick County, Maryland—and is currently Director of the Shepherd Children’s Chorus. In 2005, Schott published a collection of his Orff arrangements, Round the Corner and Away We Go. Dr. Gonzol is a member of MENC, the Organization of American Kodály Educators, the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, the American Recorder Society, and Phi Kappa Phi.
Call or write:
Dr. David Gonzol
Department of Music and Theater
Shepherd University
Shepherdstown, WV 25443
304.876.5225 or 800.344.5231 ext. 5225