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 Mary
Ellen Pinzino is the Founder/Director of the Come
Children Sing Institute, a center for research and development
in music learning since 1984. She is the composer of the Come
Children Sing Institute SONG LIBRARY, a resource
of more than 500 new songs for preschool, elementary school
and children's chorus, and creator of the Come Children
Sing Institute music curriculum for children from
birth through thirteen. She is the developer of Come
Children, Sing! Online Music Classes, and leads the
production of Come Children, Sing!, the television program
for preschool music.
Mary Ellen has taught all ages from birth through graduate
students, teaching preschool classes and conducting the children's
choruses at the Come Children Sing Institute,
and directing the Institute's teacher training program. She
has also taught elementary school music, high school choral
music, graduate school music education courses, and served
as conductor of the Women’s Choral Ensemble at the University
of Illinois at Chicago. She authored a publication for music
educators, "Letters On Music Learning," for six
years, and has written additional articles for national and
international publications.
Mary Ellen's comprehensive work with infants, toddlers and
preschoolers, her research on the process of music learning
and music literacy, her work with children's choirs and the
application of movement in the choral rehearsal with singers
of all ages, her many compositions for children, and her unique
applications of technology to music learning have put her
on the cutting edge in the field of music education. She is
in demand as a clinician, presenting nationally and internationally
for music educators organizations, including the International
Society for Music Education, the Music Educators National
Conference, the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, the Organization
of American Kodaly Educators, the American Choral Directors
Association, and Suzuki Institutes. She has also presented in Portugal
at the University of Lisbon, in Indonesia for the East Asia Regional
Council of Overseas Schools and the Jakarta International School, and
most recently for the International Music Education Conference in
Vilnius, Lithuania.
Mary Ellen received bachelor's and master's degrees in music
education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
and studied extensively with Edwin Gordon, the premier researcher
in the field of music learning.
Mary Ellen lives with her husband in Homewood, Illinois. Their
two sons inspired Come Children, Sing! as babies and continued
to inform her preschool programs and children’s choruses
until their voices changed. Her toddling grandson and infant
granddaughter now advise their grandmother as consultants for
Come Children, Sing! Online Music Classes.
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