Himelick, Andrew
Andrew M. Himelick has taught elementary music for thirty-three years in Carmel, Indiana, and has been an assistant director with the Indianapolis Children’s Choir for twenty-seven years. He is a graduate of Butler University and is a specialist in both Kodály and Orff Schulwerk pedagogies. He has been a presenter at state and national music education workshops and conventions as well as a guest clinician at choral festivals. He is an endorsed Teacher Trainer with the Feierabend Association for Music Education (FAME) in both First Steps in Music and Conversational Solfege. He is also currently the president-elect of FAME. He is the author of Leading Large Group Singing, and is a contributing author to Feierabend Fundamentals and Conversational Solfege with Orff Schulwerk. He also taught sample lessons on the DVD First Steps in Music for Kindergarten and First Grade: In Action and was an arranger for Sing in Parts, Volume 1. In 2006 he received the Armstrong Teacher Educator Award from the Indiana University School of Education, and in 2021 he was named Outstanding Elementary Educator by the Indiana Music Education Association.