The NYU Steinhardt Kodály Summer Institute is open to students as a noncredit summer course. Students may also take the course for 3 graduate credits (different application process. Email mpap.summer@nyu.edu for more info). Students who enroll in the summer master's degree program may take all three levels of the NYU Steinhardt Kodály Summer Institute toward fulfillment of degree requirements, ending with both a master's degree in Music Education and Kodály certification (contact Dr. Jason Thompson, Director of Music Education, jdt9583@nyu.edu).
The Kodály Summer Institute is endorsed by the Organization of American Kodály Educators.
Program Dates
July 3 – July 21, 2023
- Required Student Orientation: Sunday, July 2, 2023.
- First day of classes: Monday, July 3, 2023. Weekday classes: 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m
- Holiday: Tuesday, July 4, 2023, The Fourth of July. No classes.
- Students should plan to stay through the NYU Kodály 2023 Concert and Banquet, July 21, 3:00–5:30 p.m., Banquet: 6:00–9:00 p.m..
- Three Levels (1, 2, and 3). One Level for each of three summers (hopefully consecutive).
Application Deadline
April 11, 2023
Rolling admissions for commuting students (no housing) from April 12 to the opening day of the program, Monday, July 3, 2023.
Costs and Fees
$55 (Non-Refundable Application Fee)
$1,873 (Non-Credit Workshop Tuition)
$6,200 Estimated Graduate Tuition (3 Graduate Credits) for Each Level.
$1,821 (On-Campus Housing $1,266, Required Meal Plan $555)
Scholarships Competition for Members of the Organization of American Kodály Educators (see oake.org).
Intended For
Post-College and Graduate Students
Undergraduate Seniors in Music Education with Permission of Their Advisers
Continuing Professionals
The Kodály Summer Institute serves both graduate musicians-educators and those who have worked in the field—all who would like to enrich their skills in creating curriculum and delivering pedagogy in a Kodály-inspired music classroom. Participants experience and collect traditional (folk) materials that can be sequenced with the intention of leading their young music makers toward the goals of music literacy and musical understanding. Course work includes:
- Levels 1, 2, and 3; one level each for three summers
- Noncredit or 3 graduate credits available for each level
- Preschool through secondary school methodology
- Ear training using movable tonic solfege
- Vocal skills for children, adolescents, and adults
- Choral ensemble
- Choral conducting
- Materials and skills for starting a chorus at elementary and middle school levels
- Traditional (folk) materials and research
- Movement through singing games
- Extending Kodály to the recorder
Special One-Week Offering - TBD
Kodály Musicianship Workshop
with Dr. László Nemes
Director, Kodály Institute
of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary
The Kodály Musicianship Workshop is part of the course work of the three-week program. Outside students are allowed to register for this workshop only.
One of Kodály’s composition students, Pál Kadosa, who was one of the most remarkable piano professors of the Liszt Academy of Music in the second half of the last century, once mentioned how Kodály lacked any methodical approach to teaching: “Someone once asked Kodály what was his preferred method of teaching? Kodály answered: ‘my method is that I do not have a method.’ ‘This was typical of Kodály,’ said Kadosa. ‘Music and the student was always his point of departure.’”
This interactive and practice-based seminar aims at investigating how current music educational practices, generally associated with the term "Kodály method”, correspond with Kodály’s original ideas as expressed in his various speeches, writings, and interviews collected in the three-volume book In Retrospect, edited by the late Ferenc Bónis.
Active participation is expected from each attendee. The music material of the seminar, included in the lectures, will cover many different genres and style periods of traditional and Western art music. Students completing the Workshop will receive a Certificate of Attendance.
Audition Requirements
The Kodály Summer Institute does not have any audition requirements, however, there are program-specific questions that you will need to complete within the online application.
For Kodaly graduate credit-bearing application instructions, write to Josh Bailey.
Institute Director
Dr. Jerry Kerlin, Founder and Director (jerry.kerlin@nyu.edu)
Dr. Jason Thompson, Music Education Program Director (jdt9583@nyu.edu)
Kodály Summer Institute 2022 Faculty
Kodály and Music Education
Following his folk song collecting with Béla Bartók in Hungary in the early 1900s, Zoltán Kodály had a vision—a monumental idea that music, like language, could be taught artistically using the authentic traditional (folk) materials of any given culture.
Course Descriptions
New York University remains the only campus in metropolitan New York offering Kodály certification on a noncredit and graduate credit basis.
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement & Safety Measures
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NYU has in place ongoing public health measures and requirements to ensure the safety of all University community members.
Costs and Fees
Costs, payment procedures, scholarships, cancellation/refund policy, and financial aid details for our summer programs.
Housing Information
All you need to know about NYU summer program housing including rates, meal plans, services, and check-in/out.
International Student Information
An application checklist and information on English proficiency testing, visas, and health insurance for students from outside the United States.
Contact Us
Program Administration
Summer Programs
212 998 5438
mpap.summer@nyu.edu
Academic Content
Dr. Jerry Kerlin
Kodály Summer Institute, Director
212 998 5774
jerry.kerlin@nyu.edu
Dr. Jason Thompson
Music Education Program, Director
212 998 5778
jdthompson@nyu.edu