Tara Clayburn is the Lower School Music Teacher at The Potomac School in McLean, VA, where she teaches Kindergarten through Grade 3 music and movement classes, as well as Third Grade Chorus. She is a teacher educator for the American Orff Schulwerk Association, and she currently teaches Level 1 pedagogy at the North Florida Orff Course and at West Chester University. She is an active workshop clinician for AOSA chapters and has presented workshop sessions at the AOSA National Professional Development Conference in 2021 and 2025. She has had articles published in The Orff Echo, AOSA Reverberations, and the Kentucky Music Educators Association’s Bluegrass Music News. She received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Music Education from Morehead State University and received her Orff-Schulwerk levels certification from The University of Kentucky. She further studied the Schulwerk at the Summer Course at the Orff-Institute in Salzburg Austria, as well as many masterclasses and workshops throughout the United States. Tara is a Past-President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter of AOSA.

Katie Traxler teaches K-5 music at Gateway Elementary, a public school in Madison, TN. Previously she taught 3K-5 music in NYC for 15 years. In addition to teaching general music classes, she leads a chorus, recorder and Orff ensembles, and various after-school classes and clubs in piano, guitar, ukulele, and movement. Committed to collaboration and arts integration, Traxler works closely with the classroom teachers to maintain a rich curriculum integrating music, movement, drama, and visual art within the social studies, math and ELA content across all grade levels.

Traxler has worked as a clinician for various organizations in NYC including the Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Weill Institute at Carnegie Hall, and has presented music education workshops for Orff Chapters, School Districts, State MEA Conferences, and Universities across the United States. She has served on the AOSA NBT, is presently serving on CORS, and is the VP of the MTAOSA Chapter. She teaches Basic Pedagogy Levels I and II for various Orff Teacher Educator programs in the US.

Charlie Tighe taught elementary music in the Cobb County Schools for thirty years, where he also taught in and served as Director of the Atlanta Orff Levels course. He holds degrees and certificates from Kenyon College, the University of Colorado – Boulder, Boston University, and the Mozarteum – Salzburg, Austria. Currently Charlie is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music Education at Kennesaw State University where he teaches Music Methods Materials as well as in the Honors College, where he teaches Music in Society. During the summers, currently, Charlie serves on the Arizona State University faculty, teaching Orff Schulwerk Levels Courses during the summers. He has taught Orff Levels courses workshops throughout the United States, India, Singapore, and Canada.  

Charlie is an author of Siver Burdette Interactive Music published by Savvas. His book we Will Do Well to Listen was reviewed and featured in the Orff Echo published by the American Orff Schulwerk Association. Charlie has served as Chair of the History Committee of AOSA.  

Anna Marie Spallina is a teacher, performer and clinician who has led numerous workshops and Orff certification courses. She attended Westminster Choir College of Rider University and earned her graduate degree from the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam. She received her Orff certification from the New England Conservatory, Boston. Ms. Spallina has done further study in Orff, recorder, and historical dance in Salzburg, Austria, Assisi and Urbino, Italy. She is a former faculty member of the Bank Street School for Children in Manhattan and PS 242 in Harlem. Currently, Ms. Spallina teaches general music K through 4th grade at PS 163 in Manhattan. She also performs with the folk trio Avon Faire.

Leslie Timmons is Professor Emeritus, Utah State University in Logan, UT, where she taught the Flute Studio and elementary music methods. Her flute and clarinet duo ~AirFare~ and woodwind quintet Logan Canyon Winds have both commissioned new works that engage young audiences in active participation. Performance tours have taken her across the US and to Haiti, Guatemala, and San Salvador. Presentations include national conferences of AOSA, ARS, MENC, OAKE, Midwest Band & Orchestra Clinic and the International Congress on Recorder Orchestra in Utrecht Netherlands. Her training in Orff was with Grace Nash, Liz Gilpatrick and Judith Cole and also at the Orff Institute in Austria. She has served on the national boards of AOSA and ARS and directs the Orff Schulwerk teacher education course in Logan.