Biographies

Marcelline Moody

Marcelline Moody (BA, U of WA) is an Orff graduate of the University of Manitoba, Canada, and has her diploma in Advanced Studies in Music and Dance Education from the Special Course at the Orff Institute, Salzburg.

She has been teaching the Orff levels summer courses for 25 years at the University of Manitoba and has also taught workshops across Canada, Australia, Austria (Salzburg), China, France and England.

She has been a music education consultant with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra for almost 20 years, preparing students for listening to the symphony, and training students for live movement performances with the orchestra. She now works in a similar capacity with the Victoria Symphony.

Since retiring from the school system she has been teaching children at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, and leading a recorder ensemble for seniors.

Marcelline is also following a life-long interest in composing and arranging, especially pieces for children. Her great love is the recorder. She has recently published recorder manuals “Reach for a Star,” books 1 and 2. Teaching notation in a hands on, de-mystifying way is another of her passions.

In June of 1986, she was awarded the Bronze Medal of the town of Ouistreham in Normandy for her services to music in the community there. She is a recipient of the Morna-June Morrow Award for Excellence in Music Education in Manitoba and in June of 2004, she received the Arts in Education Award from the Manitoba Foundation of the Arts.