Katherine Hickey

Experienced music educator Katherine Hickey earned degrees in piano performance from California State Universities, including a year at the Liszt Academy of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in music education from University of Southern California. She has presented at local, state, national, and international conferences, courses, and symposia on the topics of Kodály Approach, music literacy, choral music, and elementary music education over the last four decades. She presented at IKS Symposia in Poland, Hungary, Canada, Scotland, and Los Angeles.

Hickey's research activity is centered on Jenő Ádám and his role in the Kodály approach. A transcription of 20 hours of Ádám's oral history of 20th-century musical life in Hungary and Europe, and the development of the Kodály approach is being prepared in Hungarian and English for publication. The audio recordings were recorded in Santa Barbara, California, at the home of Ernő and Katinka Dániel, in the 1960s and 1970s.

Hickey is currently professor of music at the Conservatory of Music, School of Performing Arts, University of Redlands in California. She has served as past president (2000–2006) and treasurer (2011–2018) of the Organization of American Kodály Educators (OAKE), as well as division and local leadership positions. Hickey co-directs the biennial Los Angeles International Liszt Competition for Piano and Voice with Éva Polgár. A third-generation American-Hungarian, she grew up in the rich cultural life of the Hungarian Reformed Church and Hungarian community in Los Angeles.

• D.M.A., University of Southern California
• M.A., California State University, Long Beach
• B.A., California State University, Los Angeles

• Professor of music, University of Redlands Conservatory of Music, School of Performing Arts
• Director, The Kodály Center at the University of Redlands
• Co-director, Los Angeles International Liszt Competition for Piano and Voice

• Choral music education
• Elementary music education
• Kodály/Jenő Ádám's music education approach
• Music literacy
• Sightsinging/ear training

• National and international presentations on music and music education topics
• "The Contributions of Jenő Ádám in the Kodály Approach." International Kodály Society Symposium. Kecskemét, Hungary, August 2013
• "Dancing Down the Alley to Music Literacy." AOSA. Redlands, California, Sept. 2010
• "The Legacy of Jenő Ádám." International Kodály Society Symposium. Katowice, Poland, August 2009
• "Teaching Greek Modes: Process and Literature." Organization of American Kodály Educators. Washington, D.C., March 2009
• "Discovery Learning in the Kodály Approach." International Symposium. Beijing, China, 2005