2024 CLINICIAN BIOGRAPHY- Mrs. Corynn Nordstrum

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For the past 21 years, Corynn has taught music for children in pre-Kindergarten through High School. She is grateful to be in her 7th year teaching general music for students in Kindergarten through 2nd Grade at Benjamin Franklin Elementary in Menomonee Falls. Corynn enjoyed directing the Milwaukee Children’s Choir Introductory Choir for five years and the MCC Music Explorers program for 1 year. She also teaches summer beginning woodwind lessons for area middle school band programs and vocal directs for Musical Masquers, Inc. youth musical theater camps.

 

Corynn attended the University of Michigan for her B.M. in clarinet performance and music education, and after teaching several years in the metro Detroit area, her M.M. in music education from the University of Michigan with an emphasis on elementary choral direction. A lifelong learner, Corynn is a national board certified teacher, and holds certifications in Music Learning Theory, Kodály, and Orff-Schulwerk. She is looking forward to her next opportunity to go back to school!

Corynn served several years as treasurer for the Michigan Music Educators Association, and was awarded the Hilda E. Humphrey Award for service to the profession early in her career. After moving to Wisconsin, Corynn served two terms as Early Childhood Music Chair on the Wisconsin Music Educators Association Council, writing articles for the Wisconsin School Musician Magazine on Early Childhood Education topics. She has presented a variety of sessions on music education at many music conferences, including the Wisconsin Music Conference in Madison, and was the 2024 recipient of the Civic Music MKE certificate of excellence award for general music instruction.

Until her daughters’ academic and artistic pursuits began taking over her free time, Corynn enjoyed playing clarinet and auxiliary clarinets for Knightwind Ensemble and the Kettle Moraine Symphony, as well as doubling on flute, clarinets and saxophones for community musical theater groups. She still gigs occasionally, playing clarinet with Blaskapelle MKE and the Manitowoc Symphony, and continues to sing and play instruments at her church. Corynn and her husband Tyler are proud band parents of daughter Robin, orchestra parents for daughter Annalise, and choir and theater parents for both!