Michael Chandler is an assistant professor of music and coordinator of music education at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in music education and supervises student teachers. Chandler taught elementary general music in Texas public schools for sixteen years where his student groups performed as invited ensembles at the Texas Music Educators Association conference. He was a collaborative pianist for the Children’s Chorus of Greater Dallas for ten years and is the current founding conductor of the Clarksville Children’s Chorus. Chandler teaches all three levels of Orff Schulwerk basic and recorder in several teacher education courses across the United States. His work has appeared in the Southwestern Musician, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, The Orff Echo, and Orff-Schulwerk International.