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Kristen A. Albert, Ed. D.
Chairperson of the Department of Music Education
Associate Professor of Music Education

Room 221 , Swope Music Building
Phone: 610-738-0495
kalbert@wcupa.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education
B.S., Music Education, Millersville University; M.Ed., Shippensburg University, Ed. D.Educational Leadership, University of Delaware

Kristen Albert has extensive experience in Music Education. An educator in the Pennsylvania public schools for seventeen years, Dr. Albert has teaching experience in all levels of classroom, vocal and instrumental music, both elementary and secondary. Her specialties include middle school classroom and vocal and instrumental music, with emphasis on Kodaly Methodology, Effective Teaching and Classroom Management. She holds certificates in Kodaly Level I and II from West Chester University.

An active performer and teacher of French horn, Dr. Albert is a member of the Lancaster Brass Quintet, established in 1982, and was a member of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra (1982-1999). She is principal horn in Allegro: The Chamber Orchestra of Lancaster, and plays Eb Tenor horn with the Lancaster Brass Band. She continues to be a freelance performer and a private French horn instructor.

Dr. Albert is the Artistic Director and founder of the Children’s Choir of Lancaster and the Kennett Symphony Children's Chorus. Both of these prestigious ensembles incorporate teaching of music literacy through the use of Kodaly methodology and movement activities and have been invited to perform for the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association. Dr. Albert keeps an active schedule as guest conductor for elementary and middle level choral festivals.

Dr. Albert has presented papers at PMEA and MENC on the local and regional levels, at the Technological Directions in Music Learning conference as part of the Institute for Music Research, for the College Music Society, and the 21st Century Technology in Education Conference at Penn State University. She has been published in the ISME journal, Music Education International on the integration of technology to enhance music learning. She serves as secondary classroom/vocal music specialist in the Department of Music Education in the School of Music.

In addition to her professional activities as an educator and a performer, Dr. Albert is a member of the Organization of American Kodaly Educators, and the American Choral Directors Association, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and the American Educational Research Association. She serves as faculty advisor to the Pennsylvania Collegiate Music Educator's Association (PMEA) and Sigma Alpha Iota, a women's national music fraternity.

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