Education

• M.M., (Music Education) Moorehead State University
• B.S. (Music Education), Moorehead State University
• Certified Orff-Schulwerk, University of Kentucky

Curriculum Vitae

Tara Clayburn is the Lower School Music Teacher at The Potomac School in McLean, VA, where she teaches Kindergarten through Grade 3 music and movement classes, as well as Third Grade Chorus. She is a teacher educator for the American Orff Schulwerk Association and she currently teaches Level 1 pedagogy at the North Florida Orff Course and at West Chester University. She is an active workshop clinician for AOSA chapters and has presented workshop sessions at the AOSA National Professional Development Conference in 2021 and 2025. She has had articles published in The Orff Echo, AOSA Reverberations, and the Kentucky Music Educators Association’s Bluegrass Music News. She received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Music Education from Morehead State University and received her Orff-Schulwerk levels certification from The University of Kentucky. She further studied the Schulwerk at the Summer Course at the Orff-Institute in Salzburg Austria, as well as many masterclasses and workshops throughout the United States. Tara is a Past-President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter of AOSA.