Assistant Professor of Music Education, Dr. Bonnie Jacobi, was recently selected to join the Editorial Board for Music Educators Journal. MEJ is a national, peer-review journal of the National Association for Music Educators. The journal is in its 100th year (first printed in 1914) and has the largest circulation of any music education journal in the world.
Dr. Jacobi will serve on the Editorial Board for 2014-2018. She is honored to assume this position, representing Colorado State University, and hopes to impact what is said and written about music education in the United States over the next four years.
Dr. Bonnie Schaffhauser Jacobi is assistant professor of music education at Colorado State University. For twenty-one years, she has been a music education specialist teaching students of all ages throughout Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Texas. She has directed choirs that have performed at professional venues such as the Houston Ballet, the Houston Symphony, and Miami City Ballet. In 2008, she founded the Meadows Community Youth Chorus in Dallas for elementary-aged children without music in their schools.
Dr. Jacobi holds music degrees from the University of Houston (D.M.A. in Music Education), the University of Texas at Austin (M.M. in Piano Performance), and Mount Holyoke College (B.A. in Music). Additionally, she holds a Kodaly Certification from Indiana University and McNeese State University and has completed rigorous training programs at Carnegie-Mellon University-International Dalcroze Institute, the Juilliard School-Abramson-Dalcroze Institute, the Dalcroze School of the Rockies, and the TCU/Van Cliburn Piano Institute in Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to her arrival at Colorado State, Dr. Jacobi taught on the faculties of Southern Methodist University and the University of Houston. With a strong background in classical dance, her research interests include musical gesture, musical expression, and the teaching of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze. She has published articles in Music Educators Journal, American Music Teacher, Southwestern Musician, Texas Music Teacher, the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, General Music Today and the Kodaly Envoy, and presents actively as a clinician and lecture-recitalist.
At CSU, Dr. Jacobi teaches undergraduate and graduate coursework in Music Education, oversees the Colorado Kodaly Institute, and serves as a faculty advisor for CSU-Collegiate MENC Chapter.