Music Education
Faculty
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John Coggiola
Associate Professor/Program Chair
Music Education
315-443-5896
jccoggio@syr.edu
Chair, Associate Professor in Music Education, Teaching and Leadership Programs and Teaching and Curriculum Programs
Ph D., Florida State University, 1997.
Music education (Instrumental emphasis); jazz studies; music technology; effective respond to music.
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Elisa Macedo Dekaney
Assistant Professor
Music Education
315-443-4854
emdekane@syr.edu
Ph.D. Florida State University
Dr. Elisa Macedo Dekaney is an assistant professor of music education in the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of choral music, research in music, world music, and co-directs the SU Brazilian Music Ensemble. In the fall of 2001, Dr. Dekaney was appointed the music director of the Syracuse University Oratorio Society, the choir that performs regularly with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dr. Dekaney earned a bachelor’s degree in piano performance at the Seminário Teológico Batista do Sul do Brasil and a bachelor’s degree in communication from Universidade Federal Fluminense. She continued her studies in the United States, earning a master’s degree in choral conducting from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a Ph.D. in choral music education from the Florida State University. She has been an active researcher, clinician, and choral conductor in the United States, Greece, Spain, and Brazil. Dr. Dekaney is currently the repertoire and standards chair for Ethnic and Multicultural Music for the New York State American Choral Directors Association and a member of honorary music society Pi Kappa Lambda.
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Emma Rodriguez Suarez
Assistant Professor
Music Education
315-443-5897
erodri05@syr.edu
Ph.D. University of Toronto
Emma Rodriguez Suarez was born and raised in the Canary Islands, Spain. Suarez holds a Level III Orff Schulwerk Teacher Training certificate and a Kodaly Certificate from the Kodaly Musical Training Institute. She has published numerous articles and contributed to Strategies for Teaching: K - 4 General Music (Rowman & Littlefield), Performance Standards for Music: Grades PreK - 12 (Music Educators National Conference) and Strategies for Teaching Elementary and Middle-Level Chorus (Rowman & Littlefield). She earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees in music education from the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, Connecticut. Her Ph.D. degree in music education is from the University of Toronto.