Timothy S. Brophy
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Timothy S. Brophy is an assistant professor of music education at the University of Florida in Gainesville, and holds a Bachelor's degree in Music Education from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music degree with a concentration in Orff Schulwerk from the University of Memphis, and a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Kentucky.
As an elementary music teacher, Dr. Brophy was awarded an Ashland Teacher Achievement Award (1996), a Memphis Rotary Club Rotary Award for Teacher Excellence (1999), and was the first elementary music teacher to be honored at the Disney American Teacher Awards in Los Angeles in 1998. An active music education writer and clinician, Dr. Brophy's articles have appeared in the Music Educator's Journal, Teaching Music, the Orff Echo, and Tennessee Musician, and Tennessee Teacher. He is author of the book Assessing the Developing Child Musician: A Guide for General Music Teachers (2000, GIA Publications), and I've Got to Move! (Warner Brothers Publications, scheduled for 2002).
Dr. Brophy's research interests include musical creativity (improvisation), musical development, and assessment. He continues to present his research at numerous conferences both in the United States and abroad, and his research has been published in Contributions to Music Education, the Southeastern Journal of Music Education, and The Canadian Music Educator. He is currently serving as editor of the journal Research Perspectives in Music Education, and is a member of the editorial boards of The Music Educators Journal, the Orff Echo, and Research and Issues in Music Education.
He is 2001-02 Chair of the Research Advisory Review Panel of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (AOSA), the National Conference Co-Chair for the AOSA 2003 National Conference, and Chair of the Florida Music Assessment Task Force.