Karen Medley
Karen Medley is an elementary music specialist in the Pentucket Regional School District in northeastern Massachusetts. Formerly a teacher in the Clark County Schools, Las Vegas,Nevada and a teacher in the Memphis City Schools for over twenty years, she received a Bachelor of Music Education from the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester). She also studied at the University of Memphis where she earned a Master of Music with a Concentration in Orff Studies and completed her Orff Teacher Training Levels I-III and Master Class.

Presenter at eleven AOSA National Conferences, Karen has taught many workshops, in-services and teacher education courses across the United States, including workshops in Oahu andMaui. Currently, Karen also teaches in summer teacher education programs through the University of Alaska (Anchorage), Bridgewater State University (Bridgewater, MA) and the EastmanSchool of Music (Rochester, NY). Karen has taught many courses and workshops introducing classroom and preschool teachers to Orff Schulwerk. In 1993 and again in 1995 she was a guest lecturer in New Zealand, presenting courses and workshops through the Teacher's College of Auckland University and throughout the country.

Karen has directed several children's choruses whose performances include singing Mahler's Eighth Symphony, opening the National Blues Awards, performing at the 1989 AOSA National Conference in Atlanta as well as singing Carmina Burana and The Nutcracker with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. A recipient of the Rotary Award for Teacher Excellence in Memphis City Schools (1984), a contributing writer for Music and You (Macmillan/McGraw-Hill), Karen's arrangements have been featured in The World Sings: International Folk Songs (Memphis Musicraft Publications) and Las Vegas Writes III.