Assistant Professor of Music: Music Education and Campus Band
144 Performing Arts Center
(320) 308-2295
Beth Hayes conducts the Campus Band and teaches courses for music education, elementary education, and other majors. She earned an undergraduate degree in music education from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY in 1992, a Master of Music Education from Indiana University in 2000 and has completed coursework for a PhD in music education.
She taught in the public schools for nine years in both urban and rural communities. Her teaching experience includes concert, jazz, and marching bands, general music, string and full orchestra, music theory, and orchestration. She taught private French Horn lessons for ten years in New York where she was also a brass adjudicator, conducted a community women’s chorale, and earned two grants to commission new music for jazz band.
She has been published in the Kodály Envoy and is co-author of an article to be printed by the Bulletin of the Council of Research in Music Education.
