Theory & Composition, History and Education Faculty

Theory & Composition, Music History and

Music Education Faculty

Theory & Composition and Music History
Dr. Theodore Hansen

(903) 886-5286
Theodore_Hansen@tamu-commerce.edu

Dr. Theodore Hansen
Compositions published by See-Saw Music Corporations, New York, and by Dorn Publications, Medfield, MA. Premiere performances in Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, by the Phoenix Symphony and the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra, and on National Educational Television. Textbook on 20th Century Aural Perception published by University of Press of America. Member, ASCAP. Former faculty member, Arizona State University, University of Tulsa, and former Director, School of Music, University of Tulsa, and former Dean, St. Louis Conservatory of Music. Professor of music, DMA, University of Arizona; M.M. Arizona State University; BM, University of Colorado. Studied composition with Cecil Effinger, Robert McBride, George Crumb, Ronald LoPresti, and Grant Fletcher. Recipient of ten consecutive ASCAP Standard Panel awards, and cited for “excellence in Music” by the Texas House of Representatives in resolution #131 dated September 24, 2003. Recent album in jazz piano released, 2002.

Music Education
Darla Meek

(903) 886-5296
Darla_Meek@tamu-commerce.edu

Darla Meek serves as Lecturer in Music Education at Texas A & M University-Commerce, teaching undergraduate and graduate music classes and supervising student teachers. Prior to this position, she was the music and movement specialist at Rugel Elementary School in Mesquite, Texas. In 2007, her entire fifth grade class was selected to perform an original music and movement production for the Orff Teachers reception at the annual Texas Music Educators Conference in San Antonio.
She earned a Bachelor’s of Music Education from Dallas Baptist University, and a Master’s of Music at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She earned her Orff certification and Master Class at SMU, and apprenticed in Basic Pedagogy at University of Saint Thomas in Minnesota. Darla teaches both pedagogy and movement for Orff Levels courses.
Darla has taught music in elementary schools for fifteen years. She has served the Mesquite Children’s Chorus and the Children’s Chorus of Collin County as assistant conductor and choreographer, and has served as Children’s Choir Coordinator for three area churches.