Dr. Beth Hayes

      Music Education

Contact Information:
    E-mail: tbhayes@uno.edu
    Office Number: (504) 280-5496

Beth Hayes earned an undergraduate degree in music education from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY in 1992, a Master of Music Education from Indiana University in 2000 and PhD in Music Education from Indiana University in 2009.
                Currently, she supervises music education majors in their field work and teaches brass class, percussion class, elementary music education, music technology, music education forum, music theory, and music appreciation.  She is the principal website administrator for the UNO Music Department.
          She taught in the public schools for nine years in both urban and rural communities. Her teaching experience includes concert, jazz, and marching bands, general music, string and full orchestra, music theory, and orchestration. She taught private French Horn lessons for ten years in New York where she was also a brass adjudicator and earned two grants to commission new music for a middle school jazz band. In Washington DC, she conducted a women’s chorale that performed Where I Live: a Breast Cancer Oratorio.
          In 2005, her article “Adapting Kodály pedagogical principles to the preverbal child” was published in the Kodály Envoy. Beth was a coauthor in “A descriptive study of public school music programs in Indiana” which was presented at the 2005 Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Music Education Conference. This study was published in Bulletin of the Council of Research in Music Education in 2006. In April, 2006, at the MENC National Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, Beth presented research pertaining to the ability of middle school flutists, clarinetists, and trumpeters to play in tune.
           Before arriving at the University of New Orleans, Beth Hayes worked at Saint Cloud State University in Minnesota as an Assistant Professor of Music Education and director of the Campus Band.  She also worked as an adjunct professor at Indiana University. At the collegiate level, she has supervised student teachers and taught secondary methods, instrumental methods, technology education for teachers, band, music appreciation, and musicianship. As a graduate student she was a substitute instructor for 4 master and doctoral level courses in music education at Indiana University.