Featured Guest:
Bonnie Goodliffe
(Keynote Speaker, Making the Most of Your Practice Time, Organ Q & A, Efective Hymn Playing, Backstage at the Tabernacle: 30 Years of Stories from the Bench)
Bonnie Lauper Goodliffe studied piano and organ at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Brigham Young University, and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music theory from Brigham Young University. Since 1979 she has been an organist on Temple Square in Salt Lake City where she performs organ recitals and accompanies Temple Square Chorale and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. She is an instructor in the Tabernacle Choir School which provides training for prospective choir members. She is a Fellow in the American Guild of Organists and serves as a member of the Certification Board. She and her husband Glade P. Goodliffe have seven children and fifteen grandchildren.
Additional Instructors
Nancy Bair | Channing Dance
Denise Erskine | Dana Garrett | Joseph Hoffman
Eric McKirdy | Beth O’Brien | Kristine Parker
Anni Scott | David Thomas
Nancy Bair
(Music Therapy)
Nancy graduated from Willamette University with a Bachelor of Music: Music Therapy. She is a board certified music therapist (MT-BC) and works primarily with Alzheimer and stroke patients. She is also a certified Kindermusik instructor and State of Oregon certified Behavioral Specialist. In addition to music therapy, Nancy also teaches private violin as well as middle school orchestra. She has played with many orchestras and small chamber ensembles throughout her life. Nancy has had many music callings including Primary chorister, Ward choir director, and she is currently serving as the Relief Society chorister in the Springville Ward where she resides with her husband and two daughters.
Channing Dance
(Nursery Music)
Channing Dance is in the Raleigh Hills ward. She has 3 children (ages 5, 2, and 8 months). Her husband is finishing his medical residency in Ophthalmology this summer. Channing is the ward primary song leader for Junior Primary, the Nursery music leader, and the Stake Primary song leader. She has taught Gymboree music classes for about 5 years and now teaches toddler music classes in her home once a week.
Denise Erskine
(Basic Choral Conducting, Choral Reading)
Denise Erskine has been involved with church music since the age of 15, and played clarinet in the Cupertino Symphonic Band for the past 20 years. Sister Erskine has served as the director of the Saratoga Stake Balcony Chorus for the Oakland Temple Pageant and conductor of the South Bay Institute Choir in Cupertino, CA. She attends the BYU Choral Academy each summer and currently serves as ward choir director.
Dana Garrett
(Primary Music)
Dana Garrett has been married 25 years and has three wonderful children. She has a Masters in Teaching with an emphasis in K-12 music. She enjoys all outdoor activities, the arts, and really good food. See her website at www.danagarrettmusic.com/
Joseph Hoffman
(Getting More from Your Choir)
Joseph Hoffman holds a Masters degree in Music from Brigham Young University, where he also served on the music faculty for 2 years, teaching music theory, sight singing and conducting theUniversity Chorale. He has several published titles to his name. Joseph is the founder of Hoffman Academy where he teaches piano and voice.
Eric McKirdy
(Music Chair Boot Camp, Organ Q & A, The Hymns, in Theory)
Eric McKirdy began playing the organ at an early age, and pursued it as a major in college, studying at the University of Oregon with Dr. Barbara Baird. Since that time, he has been honored to perform throughout the United States and Europe, both as a soloist and as organist for several choirs. He has written a number of arrangements for choir and organ, and for the last four years has taught extensively at the Portland Regional LDS Music Workshop. Eric serves on his chapter’s board of directors of the American Guild of Organists. He and his family live in Albany, where he recently completed his twentieth year as ward organist.
Beth O’Brien
(Empowering Kids Through Music)
Beth O’Brien is the mother of four and a preschool teacher. She enjoyed choir experiences in her youth and participates in ward choir, and she is currently loving teaching music to the primary children in Raleigh Hills Ward.
Kristine Parker
(Music & Kids)
Kristine Parker is president and director of Allegro Music Academy LLC in Beaverton, Oregon. She has a DMA in Flute Performance and has taught as a visiting professor of flute at BYU. She has been specially certified by the Gordon Institute of Music Learning to teach young children and is a nationally certified teacher through the Music Teachers National Association. Her program offers early childhood music, children’s choir, music classes for home school children, flute, piano and violin instruction.
Anni Scott
(Music & The Restoration)
Anni Scott’s musical studies have included the piano, violin and vocal performance. She has served as a primary pianist, ward primary music leader and stake primary music leader. She is currently serving as a stake relief society president, in the Salem, Oregon stake. Anni has loved and been involved in music, her entire life. She finds her study of music history and composers to be an ongoing passion.
David M. Thomas
(Conducting Master Class)
David Thomas received a Doctor of musical arts degree in choral conducting from Rimksy-Korsakov Conservatoire in St. Petersburg, Russia. Master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Brigham Young University. A baritone, he holds a high commitment to healthy vocal production in the choir. He is the music director and conductor of Portland Mormon Choir and Orchestra, and co-director of Hoffman Academy of Music. He enjoys singing with his wife Emily (Soprano) and spending time with their 4 children.