Tamara Albrecht

Lecturer

Music at Emory
Emory University
Burlington Rd Bldg, Room 303
Atlanta, GA 30322

404-727-5208
404-727-0074 FAX

talbr01@emory.edu

Children's Music Development Center of Emory

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Tamara Makdad Albrecht is Instructor in Music History and Cannon Chapel Organist and Choirmaster at Emory University, where she also teaches organ and harpsichord. Her Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Music Education degrees are from Wittenberg University, her Master of Music degree from Northwestern University.

Ms. Albrecht is certified in Level I Orff, Level III Early Childhood Music and Movement Association, and Musikgarten®. She performs as continuo player in chamber music ensembles and leads workshops for children’s church music and classroom music. She is the author of a children's choir resource book, Singing Through the Church Year, published by Morningstar Music. This 150-page volume includes many original compositions for the liturgical year as well as ideas for children and youth choir development. In 2005 Ms. Albrecht won first prize at the Unfinished Works Contest in Los Angeles for the music she composed for a play/cantata entitled The Grief and the Promise which deals with children with AIDS. She is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Institute of Worship Studies in Jacksonville, Florida.