Alan J. Gumm

Alan Gumm (b. 1960), a native of Iowa, has had a music teaching career spanning K-12 music in Kansas to higher education positions in Utah, New York, Kansas, and, since 2000, at Central Michigan University. His research has helped expand and systematize the music education field's pedagogy through theories of music teaching style and conducting functions, a "speechless rehearsal" method, and extensive multisensory techniques for voice and choir. His own choir contributed a track recording on the NAXOS album Romantic American Choral Music (available on Amazon), on which he served as producer, and was recognized in the Saginaw News for its "clear sound, excellent vocal technique and magnificent tuning...musical lines [that] were beautifully shaped...expressive singing at its finest." Gumm has been awarded numerous teaching excellence awards, contributed as a team writer to the National Core Arts Standards for music ensembles, and as an American Choral Directors Association Research and Publications Standing Committee member developed an ACDA publications series through Hinshaw Music.