Jarrod Richey

Choral Conductor, Kodály Music Teacher,
Speaker & Author

Personal Profile

As far as I can remember

Music has always been my first love. I love choral music, Kodály music education, and piano/organ music. I get to be roll my sleeves up and contribute a small part in trying to revive joyful music literacy in my little sphere of influence.

Over the past few years my musical tent has expanded beyond choral conducting to full-time music education. From that has grown opportunities to teach folk and contra dance across the state and beyond for summer camps, church gatherings, and community events.

Personal Interests

When not making or teaching music/choir or working in church music and media:

  • Enjoying  life with my wife and seven children.
  • I enjoy keeping up with Saints football & Pelicans basketball
  • Enjoy New Orleans Jazz music.
  • I am a private pilot and enjoy and miss the few times I get into a cockpit these days.

The InterWEB is vast

Being in media and design requires more than a cursory familiarity with events and design trends. I am known to post or opine on these social media sites from time to time:

Technical Skills

90%

Choral Music

90%

KODÁLY MUSIC EDUCATOR

75%

FOLK DANCE LEADER/CALLER

95%

PRINT DESIGNER

70%

WEB DESIGN

70%

VIDEO PRODUCTION

Work Experience

DIRECTOR OF THE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC

ADMINISTRATION • RECRUITING • SUMMER TEACHING • MUSIC MARKETING
Remotely adminstrates the Conservatory of Music for New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho.
Company: New Saint Andrews College
Period: October 2020 - Present

KODÁLY MUSIC INSTRUCTOR / DIRECTOR OF CHORAL ACTIVITIES

MUSIC CLASSES • SCHOLA CANTORUM • KODÁLY CURRICULUM
Teach General Music classes for 7th through 12th grade. Implement the Kodály Method of music education so that students can be music literate in the fullest since of the word.
Company: Geneva Academy
Period: August 2012 - Present

CHURCH MUSIC & MEDIA

WEBSITE • Graphic Design • CHOIR • HYMNAL
He oversees Auburn Avenue Media and church publicity. He also directs the seasonal choir at AAPC and oversees the church's supplemental music production.
Company: Church of the Redeemer (Formerly Auburn Ave. Presbyterian)
Period: January 2005 - Present

Education & Diplomas

SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

PhD in Church Music and Worship • Early American Hymnody and Music Literacy
Remotely taking coursework in Church Music and Worship program with Allen Lott and Joe Crider in Fort Worth, TX.

Currently Enrolled: 2020-Present

WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY

KODÁLY MUSIC CERTIFICATION
Three year national certification program in music literacy, choir, pedagogy, methodology and music solfege training.

Graduated: 2015

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE

MASTER Of MUSIC DegreE•CHORAL CONDUCTING
Studied with Deborah L. Chandler. Graduate Teaching Assistantship in the Choral Area with Dr. Chandler. Conducting time with University Chorale, Chamber Singers, and Concert Choir.

Graduated: 2011

LOUISIANA TECH University

Bachelor Of Arts Degree In MUSIC•VOICE
Studied voice, choral, and piano literature with David F. Wylie, Lisa Maxedon, Laura Mobley Thompson, Sue Holder, and Daniel C. Immel.

Graduated: 2008

BOOKS

BACH TO THE FUTURE: Fostering Music Literacy Today

by Jarrod RICHEY
BACH TO THE FUTURE: Fostering Music Literacy Today

So, you’re a music teacher. Or perhaps you are an administrator hoping to start a music program at your school. Maybe your program is running, but you have no idea how to drive it, give it a long vision and productive implementation. Is it working? Is it doing what it should be doing? What is that goal in the first place? Or maybe you are a parent, wondering how to put your child or yourself on the path to music literacy. This book is for you.

Once a culture restores the priority of training its people in music, the task shifts to finding what type of instruction should be present in formal school education. In this book, you will find practical help in answer to this search and so much more:

•Music as a Language
•Four Principles for Music Literacy
•Common Pitfalls in Music Training
•Music Making vs. Music History
•The Teacher as Curriculum

It’s time to revive robust music training again, training that imparts great skill modeled after the Triune God who authored all truth, goodness and beauty. Whatever your role in this endeavor, this book will offer tools to again bring musicians like Bach to the future.

RAISE THE SONG: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education

Edited by Jarrod RICHEY
Raise the Song: A Classical Christian Guide to Music Education

With technology, music has never been more constant. It is heard on phones and in waiting rooms, in coffee shops and on television. Despite such exposure, the number of people able to make music for themselves is dwindling. Classical Christian schools have a unique motivation to remedy this. Building a musically literate culture is foundational for the cultivation of beauty and the worship of God. Where better to start a generational overhaul than with classrooms full of our littlest worshipers?

The options for music training are many, but not equal. This book is designed to help the school administrator or music teacher sift through the pile and emerge with a vision and tools for building a flourishing classical Christian music program.
Contributing Authors include:
•David R. Erb
•David Goodwin
•Jarrod Richey
•Steve Turley
•Kent Young

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