Doug Goodkin (Level III, Recorder & Course Director) taught children from three years old through 8th grade at The San Francisco School for 45 years before retiring in 2020. He continues a rigorous schedule of giving Orff Courses throughout the world, working as a consultant, mentor, workshop leader and performer in schools both nationally and internationally. He is the author of 11 books, most recently The Humanitarian Musician: How Musical Harmony Can Lead to Social Harmony and Jazz, Joy & Justice: The Stories Every American Should Know. He has an ongoing blog titled Confessions of a Traveling Music Teacher and a Podcast titled The ABC’s of Education. Doug received the Orff Pro Merito Award in 2000 and AOSA’s Distinguished Service Award in 2018 and is featured in the documentary film The Secret Song.
James Harding (Level II) teaches children from preschool through middle school at The San Francisco School, where he has taught since 1990. James was local co-chair of the 2007 Orff National Conference, gives workshops throughout the U.S. and Canada and has also taught in Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, England, Ghana, Hong Kong, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Thailand and at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria. He studied classical clarinet at Yale University and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, played Balinese music in Gamelan Sekar Jaya and studied Mexican harp. James is the author of the highly-acclaimed book From Wibbleton to Wobbleton.
Michael Chandler (Level II) is an Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Education at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. Michael taught music and movement to children in Texas public schools for 16 years and was named Teacher of the Year at two different elementary campuses. His student ensembles have performed by invitation at the Texas Music Educators Conference in San Antonio in 2005, 2007, and 2013. Michael has taught workshops and conference sessions in 39 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico and has taught all three levels of Orff Schulwerk basic and recorder in AOSA-approved teacher education courses across the United States. He is the author of Everyday Recorder, Recorder Everyday! , a classroom resource for introducing the recorder in Orff Schulwerk classrooms. Michael’s publications have appeared in The Orff Echo, The Southwest Musician, and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education.
Sofía López-Ibor (Level I, Recorder & Admissions) is a distinguished music educator and Orff Schulwerk specialist with over 40 years of experience. She studied flute, recorder, and music education at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Madrid and specialized as an Orff Schulwerk teacher at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria. A past president of Orff España, she has also served on the Orff Schulwerk Forum board. Sofía teaches courses internationally, and Music Didactics in the Advance Studies Orff Schulwerk course at The Orff-Institut in Salzburg. She is the co-author of Quien Canta Su Mal Espanta and author of Blue is the Sea: Music, Movement and Visual Arts in the Orff Schulwerk, a groundbreaking work that integrates the arts with the Orff method.
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