Dr. Jill Trinka
Dr. Jill Trinka is director of graduate and undergraduate studies in Music Education at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She holds degrees in music education from the University of Illinois (B.S.) and the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.) and Kodály Certification from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, as a Ford Foundation Ringer Fellow. Dr. Trinka has taught in Kodály teacher education programs throughout the United States, and is a frequent lecturer, clinician, and performer at national, regional, and local conferences and workshops. Her specialties include music literacy, pedagogy, and folk music performance, analysis, and research. She plays guitar, dulcimer, autoharp, and banjo, and has recorded and written four volumes of folksongs, singing games, and play parties for kids of all ages: My Little Rooster (1987), Bought Me a Cat (1988), John, the Rabbit (1989), and The Little Black Bull (1996). She has recently released three recordings with Dr. John Fierabend, "Had a Little Rooster," "There's a Hole in the Bucket,” and " Old Joe Clark." Dr. Trinka is an author and recording artist for the Silver Burdett and Ginn music series textbooks.