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Professor Tim Brimmer is an Apple Distinguished Educator teaching core curricula at Butler University in the School of Music with the Jordan College of the Arts and serving on the Come to Believe team to launch Butler’s two-year Founder’s College.

MUSIC FOR HEALTHY AGING 
Dr. Brimmer serves on a collaborative team of interdisciplinary colleagues; bridging the traditionally disparate fields of music, psychology, pharmacy, communication science disorders, and physics to work alongside physicians, nurses and caregivers generating research that advances quality of life for the elderly and their caregivers. Current research projects include prescribing music for rousing and calming, increasing physical, mental and social health, reducing harmful noise levels and advancing hearing recovery. 

APPLE DISTINGUISHED EDUCATOR  
As an Apple Distinguished Educator, Dr. Brimmer advances teaching, learning, research, and creativity through digital arts solutions in schools, health care facilities, corporate and community organizations in the USA, Brazil, Japan, and Hong Kong. His current focus is on designing artful technology solutions that advance quality of life for the elderly and their caregivers. 

MUSIC EDUCATION   
Tim’s work in music education is internationally acclaimed and far-reaching; conducting and teaching in Brazil, Cuba, Finland, Hong Kong and Japan. For 15 years, Dr. Brimmer directed Butler’s Vocal Jazz Activities and Jordan Jazz, hosting Butler’s annual Vocal Jazz Fest, inviting selected high school and collegiate musicianst to with Bobby McFerrin, Manhattan Transfer, New York Voices, The Real Group (Stockholm, Sweden), Todd Rundgren, Rockapella, Take 6, John Pizzarelli, Elvis Costello, Jonny Dankworth, Cleo Lane, Marvin Hamlisch, The Swingle Singers (London) and The Four Freshmen (Butler alums). He also served as a Visiting Scholar and Overseas Consultant for the Hong Kong University of Education. Professor Brimmer’s areas of expertise include music pedagogy, music psychology, clinical supervision, acoustics of music and speech, choral-orchestral conducting, and vocal jazz. For fourty  years, Dr. Brimmer as been designing technology-rich solutions that advance teaching and creating  visual arts, arts administration, dance, theater and music. 

Professor Brimmer holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Central Michigan University, a Master of Music Education from Northwestern Michigan University, and a Doctor of Arts from Ball State University. 

For more information, visit http://blue.butler.edu/~tbrimmer or email tbrimmer@butler.edu