Memphis Orff Summer Institute

Orff Masterclass with Karen Medley, AOSA's Distinguished Service Award 2026 Winner! Read on...

Adventure awaits! Play! Explore! Celebrate! Connect!
Give yourself the gift of investing in yourself and experience the magic and joy of moving, creating, and making music. Open to all who have completed Orff Level III.

This course includes over 100 kid-developed lessons to
actively engage children in singing, playing, moving, speaking, and creating.

You will have opportunities to explore your own creativity through the lens of children. Rejoice in early music experiences, explore the breadth and depth of the Schulwerk, and find time for questions that have arisen since you completed Level III!

This masterclass focuses on classroom applications
of the 3 levels of work you have completed.

Where: University of Memphis, Orff Summer Institute
When: July 13-17th, 8:15am-4:30pm (last day ends at 3pm)
Cost: $450
On-Campus Dorms available
Register today at the link below!
https://www.memphis.edu/music/community/orff_summer_institute/
Questions? Email [email protected]

April = Orff extravaganza month! 🎶
From the Memphis All-City Concert (bravo to the students, residents, teachers, and Bethany Mayahi!), to inspiring guest work with Doug Goodkin and Tiffany Barry at UofM, to TMEA in Nashville led by Elementary Chair (and future president!) Linzie Mullins—it’s been a joyful season of music and movement.

Missed out? Join us this July at UofM in historic, musical Memphis for Orff Schulwerk Levels I–III and a masterclass on creativity and improvisation with Karen Medley (July 6–17).

✨ 58-year partnership with local schools
✨ Concurrent Orff children’s camp
✨ Online M.M. in Orff Schulwerk (transfer in prior levels + flexible coursework)

Make music in Memphis this July—in the home of BBQ, the blues, and Orff Schulwerk!

The Special Course in Salzburg application deadline is extended to April 24th!

Join us for a week-long masterclass on creativity and improvisation with Karen Medley, in the beautiful Scheidt Family Performing Arts Center at the University of Memphis, July 13-17.

The one and only Sofía Lopez-Ibor is giving a free Orff workshop just up the road in Clarksville. Mark your calendars and don’t miss this one!

Free workshop alert! anyone! Meet a friend in the comments and make it happen.

University of Memphis students/grads, and future Orff teachers showed up and represented today at the local MC-AOSA chapter workshop on STEAM integration with Michelle Sampson. 🎶

Join us in joyful music making this summer in Memphis and revitalize your teaching practice! Offering all 3 levels and a masterclass with Karen Medley.

Join us in Memphis in July for for Orff Levels, a Masterclass with Karen Medley, or start your journey toward an online music master's degree in Orff Schulwerk! Registration is live on our website! https://www.memphis.edu/music/community/orff_summer_institute/index.php

Check out the remarkable transformation in these before-and-after pics of our newly refurbished instrumentarium, thanks to the wizardry of Will Blanchard! We appreciate you so much, Will! You gave our instruments new life. Thank you also to Bethany Mayahi and MSCS for your support of our program!

A huge THANK YOU to Will Blanchard and Bethany Mayahi for your time and support in refurbishing our Orff Instruments! They are like new -- looking and sounding great, and ready for Orff Levels and Masterclass this summer (7/6-7/17). Registration will be open later this week! Stay tuned.

Get ready for another amazing local chapter workshop!

Welcome back! 2026 MCAOSA workshop series kicks off with . We can’t wait to see you back in the city.