Diane Orlofsky - ChoirPlace

Personal Information

First Name Diane
Last Name Orlofsky
Gender Female

Location

Country United States
State AL
City Troy

Musical Information

Musical Activities Singer, Conductor, Administration
Voice Soprano

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About Me Dr. Diane Orlofsky is Professor Emerita of Music and Music Education at Troy University. She currently teaches in a part-time capacity for Troy and serves as the Graduate Music Education Program Coordinator for the John M. Long School of Music.
Dr. Orlofsky is an active clinician, conductor, and researcher. She was inducted into the 2024 Alabama Music Education Association (AMEA) Hall of Fame and received the Lacey Powell Outstanding Music Educator award from AMEA in 2016. She was the 2014 recipient of the Wallace D. Malone Distinguished Faculty award which recognizes outstanding scholarship, teaching, leadership, and service, as well as the Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, the Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Scholar award, the AATE Outstanding Teacher Educator Award, and the Wright State University Music Alumni of the Year award, among others. Orlofsky also received an American Fellow award from the American Association of University Women.

She is best known for her research on learning theorist Jerome S. Bruner (Redefining Teacher Education: The Theories of Jerome Bruner and the Practice of Training Teachers, Peter Lang, 2002) and for her scholarship in music teacher education, music education methods, learning theory, piano pedagogy, choral leadership, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Orlofsky is a producer and co-host of the Troy Public Radio podcast InChoir: Conversations about Choral Music, the Arts and Life and was a co-creator of A Joyous Exchange: The Art of Collaboration (2018, supported by the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts). She is currently writing a second book about Bruner which focuses on his personal papers (in the Harvard University Archives) and serves as a Co-Chair for the AMEA Leadership Initiative.