Ithaca College

The Center for Faculty Excellence is pleased to host Ithaca College Community Artists each Friday at 5pm. In a mere 15-20 minutes, learn what our community brings to the arts, and the invariable ways art invigorates our lives. This week’s guest is Baruch Whitehead.

To gain the Zoom link, send a message to Gordon Rowland (rowland@ithaca.edu)

Dr. Baruch J. Whitehead is an associate professor of music education at Ithaca College and the founding director of the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers, which is dedicated to the preservation of the Negro Spiritual. His areas of expertise include Orff-Schulwerk, a music education that views music as a basic system like language, as well as diversity in music education; gospel music and its preservation within mainstream musical settings; African-American music; and the music of the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Whitehead has been a featured speaker/workshop presenter at many state, national and international conferences. He is author of academic papers, has directed numerous choirs, has served as a clinician, conductor, and adjudicator in five states, and has taught marching band and concert band for 15 years. Dr. Whitehead is a peace activist and has won several awards for his community service, including the 2020 President Shirley M. Collado Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Ithaca College Community.