Suzuki violin and viola. DME with high distinction Liberty University, MME Old Dominion University, BM with teacher licensure Liberty University. Dr. Heather Hannock completed an additional 9 semester credit hours at James Madison University receiving a Kodaly Music certification (a singing-based approach to Music Education that combines best practices such as Curwen hand signs, body-solfa, solfege, singing, experiencing music through movement and play, music literacy, audiating, improvising, and composing). She is a violist and a certified Suzuki violin instructor, volumes 1-7, who teaches private and group violin/viola lessons at the Academy of Music. She is the Virginia Children’s Chorus Training Choir Director in Norfolk, Virginia. She serves as an adjunct remote faculty member for Liberty University School of Music, mentoring music education Master and Doctoral graduate students as thesis/dissertation chair. Dr. Heather Howard-Hannock holds a Postgraduate Professional License from the Commonwealth of Virginia in Instrumental, Vocal, and Choral Music PREK-12. She has taught middle and high school orchestra and general music in the Public Schools. She is a member of the Organization of American Kodaly Educators and the Suzuki Association of Americas. She is a military spouse and is passionate about teaching military children who face the unique challenges of parent deployment and multiple military relocations which she and her family have personally experienced. Her current research includes investigating the Suzuki Triangle as an intervention for at-risk military children and their service member parent. Follow the URL to read the results of her study:
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/5660/
