About Prairie Winds Orff
The Prairie Winds Orff Chapter was founded in 1979 by Sister Millicent Hinds, Sister Jeanette Hinds, and Teri Fay. We are dedicated Orff Schulwerk teachers in North Dakota. Our goal is to explore ways to create, sing, move, and play our way into the hearts of children through the use of Orff Schulwerk!
Aimee Pfitzner
March 20, 2021
- Upcoming Events
Chapter Share - Member Presentations
February 20, 2021
9am - 12pm
Virtual via Zoom
Aimee Pfitzner Workshop
"Kinetic Kaleidoscope: The Ever Changing Music of Our Times "
***March 20, 2021***
Note Date Change
9am - 12pm
Virtual via Zoom
Non-Prairie Winds Orff Participant Fee $25.00
College Students Free
REGISTRATION LINK
In this hands-on workshop, participants will experience a plethora of playful, engaging, and active music making activities. Diverse and inclusive children’s literature, modified dances and movement activities, and ways to modify clapping and singing games will be used as we sing, say, create, listen, play and move together. We will explore the many ways we can continue to make music activities joyful and playful whether virtual or face to face in the ever shifting, ever changing music education of our times. Come and turn the kaleidoscope!
Aimee Curtis Pfitzner has been the Lower School Music Director at Cannon School in Concord for 23 years and has taught music for 27 years. She holds a Masters of Music degree from UNC-Greensboro and completed Level I Orff-Schulwerk Training at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, Levels II and III at UNLV, and Master's Level at the University of Memphis. Aimee is a frequent presenter at music workshops and conferences in the US and Canada. Her books, Hands to Hands, Hands to Hands Too, Painted Music, Sing a Song, Play a Game, and Playful Possibilities are available from Beatin’ Path Publications. She is passionate about music making, gardening, adoption, and anything and everything creative; painting, zendoodling, digital scrapbooking, making jewelry, writing music, crafting, and sewing. When not teaching or writing music, singing, or creating, she can be found musically musing on her blog, www.ofortunaorff.com
Chapter Share - Member Presentations
April 17, 2021
9am - 12pm
Location: Liberty Elementary, Bismarck, ND & Virtual via Zoom
Chapter Social
May 8, 2021
9am - 12pm
Location: TBD in Minot, ND
Looking to 2021 - 2022
Fall Workshop - Amy Fenton
September 25, 2021
Location: TBA Bismarck, ND
Chapter Share - Member Presentations
February 20, 2021
9am - 12pm
Virtual via Zoom
Aimee Pfitzner Workshop
"Kinetic Kaleidoscope: The Ever Changing Music of Our Times "
***March 20, 2021***
Note Date Change
9am - 12pm
Virtual via Zoom
Non-Prairie Winds Orff Participant Fee $25.00
College Students Free
REGISTRATION LINK
In this hands-on workshop, participants will experience a plethora of playful, engaging, and active music making activities. Diverse and inclusive children’s literature, modified dances and movement activities, and ways to modify clapping and singing games will be used as we sing, say, create, listen, play and move together. We will explore the many ways we can continue to make music activities joyful and playful whether virtual or face to face in the ever shifting, ever changing music education of our times. Come and turn the kaleidoscope!
Aimee Curtis Pfitzner has been the Lower School Music Director at Cannon School in Concord for 23 years and has taught music for 27 years. She holds a Masters of Music degree from UNC-Greensboro and completed Level I Orff-Schulwerk Training at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, Levels II and III at UNLV, and Master's Level at the University of Memphis. Aimee is a frequent presenter at music workshops and conferences in the US and Canada. Her books, Hands to Hands, Hands to Hands Too, Painted Music, Sing a Song, Play a Game, and Playful Possibilities are available from Beatin’ Path Publications. She is passionate about music making, gardening, adoption, and anything and everything creative; painting, zendoodling, digital scrapbooking, making jewelry, writing music, crafting, and sewing. When not teaching or writing music, singing, or creating, she can be found musically musing on her blog, www.ofortunaorff.com
Chapter Share - Member Presentations
April 17, 2021
9am - 12pm
Location: Liberty Elementary, Bismarck, ND & Virtual via Zoom
Chapter Social
May 8, 2021
9am - 12pm
Location: TBD in Minot, ND
Looking to 2021 - 2022
Fall Workshop - Amy Fenton
September 25, 2021
Location: TBA Bismarck, ND
Chapter News!
Congratulations to PWO Member, Angie Dasovick on receiving our chapter's scholarship to attend Level II.
Congratulations to PWO Member Lacey Roberts on receiving the Shields-Gillespie Fund Scholarship for Level II.
Congratulations to PWO Member Caitlin Nicks on receiving Gunild Keetman Assistance Scholarship for Level II.
Prairie Winds Orff is proud to be recognized, for the first time in 2017, as a "Chapter of Distinction," the highest level of chapter recognition from the American Orff-Schulwerk Association.
Prairie Winds Orff is proud to be recognized, for the second time, in 2018, as a "Chapter of Distinction," the highest level of chapter recognition from the American Orff-Schulwerk Association.
Prairie Winds Orff is proud to be recognized, for the third time, in 2019, as a "Chapter of Distinction," the highest level of chapter recognition from the American Orff-Schulwerk Association.
