DeNardo, G.

Published in No. 187, Winter 2011

At approximately the same time each year, I have the honor of announcing the winner of the Council for Research in Music Education’s Outstanding Dissertation Award to the profession. The 2009-2010 Outstanding Dissertation Award in Music Education was bestowed to Sharon Lynn Morrow for Voices Not Heard: Voice-use Profiles of Elementary Music Teachers, the Effects of Voice Amplification on Vocal Load, and Perceptions of Issues Surrounding Voice Use. The dissertation abstract can be read of the following page.

Sharon Morrow serves on the faculty of the Westminster Choir College of Rider University (Princeton, New Jersey) as assistant professor of music education. She received a Master of Music Education degree and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction (Music Education) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Certification in Orff-Schulwerk Levels was obtained from the University of Montana and the University of Saint Thomas (St. Paul, Minnesota).

Dr. Morrow has an extensive and diverse background as a choral, general, and strings music educator in California, Montana, and Wisconsin public school districts. She advocates for an eclectic pedagogical approach that integrates aspects of Critical Pedagogy, Comprehensive Musicianship, Orff, Kodaly, and Suzuki approaches for teaching learning music.

Sharon Morrow presented music education workshops and served a vocal, choral adjudicator and clinician in several states. She is also past co-president of the Wisconsin Orff Chapter (Greater Milwaukee Orff Dimensions).

On behalf of the Council of Research in Music Education, I offer sincere congratulations
to Sharon Lynn Morrow and her dissertation committee at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Gregory F. DeNardo