Sandy Knudson teaches music at Adams Elementary School in Norman. In November of 2003, she received National Board Certification in Early and Middle Childhood Music. She holds a M.M.E. and Kodály certification from the University of Oklahoma. She has been guest conductor for honor choirs in Louisiana and Missouri and has served as conductor of Circle the State with Song festivals throughout Oklahoma.

Sandy is currently the Artistic Director of Norman Children’s Chorus, which has made five appearances as the Children’s Honor Choir in Tulsa at the Oklahoma Music Educators Association (OMEA) conference. They will make their sixth appearance January of 2012. She has completed two summers of study with Doreen Rao in the Choral Music Experience Institute.

Master teaching is a priority for Sandy; she often has student teachers, field experience students and methods’ classes coming to work with or observe her elementary students. Since 1990, she has taught Solfege and Conducting in the University of Oklahoma Kodály summer certification program in Norman and Tulsa.

Lynn Manning teaches music at Winding Creek Elementary in Moore. She holds a Bachelors of Music Education degree from Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts. While there, she participated in Chorale, directed the annual Spring Sing, helped direct the Homecoming musical “The Secret Garden”, and spent a semester abroad in Vienna, Austria.

Lynn has performed in Carnegie Hall with her high school choir as a participant and with Highland East Junior High choir where she was the assistant director/accompanist and has also performed in the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Lynn has traveled as an English teacher, serving a year in Chemnitz, Germany, and two summers in St. Petersburg, Russia.

She serves as the music director at The Seeker Church of Norman. Lynn has received her Kodály 1 and II certification and is working towards her Master’s Degree at OU.