About the Director

Susan Glass has had a long and varied career as a music educator and choral conductor. She founded the Glass Menagerie in 1984, while she was music teacher and department chair at the Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School in New York City. During her sixteen years there, she created and developed a highly reputed music and choral program, grades PreK-8. Her students performed with Pete Seeger and with Peter, Paul, and Mary, in live concerts, on recordings, and for PBS television. Now a teacher of teachers, she is currently an adjunct professor in the Music Education program at New York University. Dr. Glass is a certified specialist in the Kodaly Approach to Music Education. Since 1991, she has been on the faculty of the Kodaly Summer Certification Program at New York University. She is a frequent clinician at workshops and conferences, both locally and throughout the United States, presenting a variety of topics in Music Education. She also continues to teach children, this year at Bank Street School for Children.

She holds a master's degree in Music Education (emphasis Dalcroze) from the Manhattan School of Music and a doctorate in Music Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is co-founder and past president of KONY (Kodaly Organization of New York) and served as Eastern Division President of OAKE (Organization of American Kodaly Educators) from 2000 to 2002. She regularly performs in several New York vocal chamber ensembles, currently with Cerddorion, and has made numerous recordings with Sine Nomine Singers and the Robert DeCormier Singers. Her most recent accomplishments are 6-year-old Sam and 4-year-old Sophie.