Member, Commission on Accreditation
Reelected November 2022, term ends November 2025
Micheál Houlahan is Chair of the Tell School of Music and Professor of Music Theory and Aural Skills at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from St. Patrick’s College (Dublin City University) Ireland, he was awarded an Irish Arts Council Scholarship for graduate studies in Hungary and a Fulbright Scholarship for doctoral studies in the United States. An International Research Exchange Grant awarded through the National Endowment for the Humanities has also supported his research.
Professor Houlahan has lectured extensively on music theory and music education in Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Estonia, Netherlands, and England. His publications include “Kodály in the Kindergarten Classroom: Developing the Creative Brain in the 21st Century” (Oxford University Press, 2015) and “From Sound to Symbol: A New Pitch for Developing Aural Awareness” in Sound Musicianship: Understanding the Crafts of Music, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2013). Other book publications include From Sound to Symbol: Fundamentals of Music, Second Edition (2011) and Kodály Today: A Cognitive Approach to Music Education, Second Edition (2015), both published by Oxford University Press.
Professor Houlahan was first elected to the Commission on Accreditation in 2019. He has served NASM as a member and Chair of the Committee on Ethics.
Professor Houlahan holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Music Theory from The Catholic University of America, a Kodály Diploma from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music/Zoltán Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music in Hungary and the Kodály Center of America, and Fellowships in Piano Performance from Trinity College and London College of Music, London.
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Updated December 2022