Colleen Tosi Ludeker- Associate Professor of Music Education

Office #34 Swope Hall

West Chester University

West Chester, PA 19383

(610) 436-3028

B.Mus.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania; M.Mus. DePauw University (performance, piano);
Ed.D. (Music Education/Curriculum and Instruction) West Virginia University;
Dalcroze Certification, Carnegie Mellon University; Dalcroze License,
Manhattan School of Music, N.Y.
Dr. Ludeker was awarded the Swiss Dalcroze License from the Manhattan School of Music under Robert
Abramson, with certification from Marta Sanchez and Dominique Porte, director of the Jacques-Dalcroze Institute,
Geneva, Switzerland. Piano performance has been with Walter Roberts, Julio Esteban and Margaret Peterson.
Professor Ludeker has taught in the Conservatory of Music, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, Penn State
University, Fairmont State College and Temple University. She has performed solo recitals and toured with a
chamber trio before coming to WCU. Her public school teaching was in the Greater Rochester school district,
New York; Armstrong County, PA and she was the Supervisor/Administrator of music education in the West
Virginia University’s laboratory school. In the spring of 1998, she presented seminars on Dalcroze eurhythmics
and improvisation at the University of Santo Thomas, Manila, Philippines and in the province of Albay.
Dr. Ludeker serves on the board of guild judges for the American College of Musicians and as clinician on
keyboard improvisation for PMTA and Dalcroze eurhythmics for PMEA and MENC. Recent published articles/
contributions include: Informational Chunking in Keyboard Companion; Improvisation at the Keyboard in Piano
Guild Notes; Related Arts Project in Philadelphia Teacher Manual; Outcome Based Education Portfolios for High
School Choral Groups in the PMEA Journal; You Heard What? A Look at Hearing, Teaching Music; So you want
to be a Music Major: Preparation of High School Students for Success as Music Majors in College in the Music
Educator’s Journal. Strategies for Teaching Middle-Level and high School Keyboards and Strategies for Teaching
High School General Music in a publication for MENC; Clustering Musical Information in The Quarterly.

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