Dr. Penny Dimmick, Professor and coordinator of music
education
Penny Dimmick is a Professor in the School of Music at Butler
University where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate
courses in music education. Dr. Dimmick holds a bachelor's degree
in music education from Taylor University and a master of music and
doctor of arts degree in music education and percussion performance
from Ball State University. She is a specialist in the Orff and
Kodály methods in music education and holds three levels of
certification from the American Orff-Schulwerk
Association. Her twenty five years of teaching experience
include seven years at Southern Wells Elementary School in Wells
County, Indiana, teaching K-6 general music and choir, teaching
percussion with several middle- and high-school band programs in
central Indiana, and teaching applied percussion and music
education at Taylor University, Ball State University, and Marian
College prior to her appointment at Butler University in 1991. At
Butler she has received from the Jordan College of Fine Arts the
Mortar Board Outstanding Faculty Member Award as well as a "3 in 3"
teaching award. Additionally, she was named the Outstanding Alumnus
at the school of music at Ball State University in 2001.
Dr. Dimmick is a frequent presenter at both state and national
music conferences, focusing on the areas of teacher preparation,
arts integration and arts technology integration in the K-12
classroom. She has served as collegiate chair for the Indiana Music Educators
Association (IMEA) for the past ten years, and has seen CMENC
in Indiana grow from 400 members to over 600 members. Dr. Dimmick
has also served as collegiate chair of the North Central division
of MENC (the
National Association for Music Education) and is continuing to
serve on the National Collegiate Advisory Board of MENC.
Dr. Dimmick is an assistant director of the Indianapolis Children's
Choir where she teaches and directs the third grade preparatory
choirs, a part of the early childhood division of ICC. She is also
active in the musical life of her church.
(317) 940-6422
pdimmick@butler.edu