Rachel Lee Nardo, DMA
Beverley Taylor Sorenson Presidential Endowed Chair
Elementary Music Education
Professor, Music Education
B.A. (Music-Voice), California State University, Northridge;
M.S. (Music Education/Technology), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign;
D.M.A. (Music Education/Educational Psychology & Technology), University of Southern California.
Email: rachel.nardo@utah.edu
Phone: (801) 585-0102
Office: DGH 308
Prior to joining the faculty at Utah in 2007, Dr.
Nardo served on the music faculties at Indiana
University (IUPUI), San Francisco State University,
and Pasadena City College. She is past co-chair of the
MENC SRIG in Early Childhood Music and a former
Coordinator of the Child and Adolescent Development
Program at the Marian Wright Edelman Institute at
SFSU. Nardo also taught Pre-K through 6th grade
general and choral music for 10 years. These varied
experiences informed her interest in research related
to uses of technology in early childhood and music
teacher education. She has presented nationally and
internationally on these topics.
Recent activities include directing a National Study
of Music in Early Childhood Education for the Music
Educators National Conference (JRME, Winter 2006) and
other publications, including: From Research to
Practice:Training Preschool Music Teachers in Early
Childhood Connections; Evaluation of Cognitive and
Perceptual Processes Elicited by Interactive Music
Software Using Electroencephalograhic (EEG) Recording
Technique* SRIG, Presention. MENC; and The Assessment
of Frontal EEG Asymmetries Associated with Learning
Beat and Rhythm: Does Music Help?* CogNet at MIT.
Second author.