The Joy Yelin Studio

About Joy Yelin

Professor Yelin has provided music instruction to educators from all areas of the performing arts at the Manhattan School of Music, New York City, Temple University, Philadelphia, and other universities and conservatories throughout the United States and Canada. Her credentials include a Dalcroze International License; Bachelor of Professional Studies, State University New York; Certified Teacher of Music, New York and Florida; MTNA Nationally Certified Master Teacher of Eurhythmics; and forty years as a professional music instructor.

As Artist-in-Residence with the Sarasota County Council of the Arts, and previously with the Westchester County Arts Council in New York, Yelin created a program of "Music/Movement and Curriculum Development." She has also developed a workshop series for non-musicians: "Music and Movement: Pathway to Vitality." Ms. Yelin is the published author of six books, has written numerous articles for music journals and created dozens of music education audio-visual programs. Ms. Yelin continues to write, compose, and conduct undergraduate and graduate workshops nationwide and in her studio.

What Others Have Said About Joy's Teaching

"Joy Yelin, Dalcroze Assistant to me at the Manhattan School of Music and presenter of graduate worksops nationwide, is a master teacher and expert pianist." 
Robert M. Abramson, Professor of Dalcroze, Juilliard School of Music

"Thank you for your wonderful workshop on improvisation for my Advanced Teaching Techniques classes. The students and I learned a great deal and thoroughly enjoyed the sessions. Your excellent book, 'Recipes for Improvisation,' is the sort of information all piano teachers."
Vera Wills, Piano Pedagogy Institute, Manhattan School of Music, New York City

"Thank you for the very fine workshop. . . Your style of working with people is very comfortable and pleasant. . .If we could only convince teachers how absolutely essential movement is to the young child!. . .It is nice to have you in the state."
Dr. Joyce Jordan, Chair, Music Education and Music Therapy, University of Miami, Florida

"Joy Yelin brings Dalcroze to life in a fun, natural way, using eurhythmics and improvisation techniques for today's music and movement education."
Dr. Jeanne Knorr, Music Education Faculty, Towson State University, Maryland



"Thank you, Joy, for a wonderful workshop at the Suzuki Association of America National Convention in San Francisco. Your creative games are musical, fun, and easy to use."
Susan Grilli, former Early Childhood Chair, Suzuki Association of America

"Joy Yelin is a musical pioneer, breaking new ground with a fascinating and eminently applicable approach to the teaching of musicians through movement."
Dr. Jacques Voois, Chair, Music Department, West Chester University, Pennsylvania

“We have worked together on many projects:  Workshops for teachers, Classes in Music and Movement/Pathway to Vitality, and as accompanist. Her instruction gave me so many ideas for my own classes, (She) is inspiring, fun and an expert in her field:  her training is from the top Dalcroze educators in the United States.”
Jane Hoffman, D.M.A. freelance musician and teacher, former director of the Hecht School of Music, Sarasota

"Learning some strategies from Joy has helped me in my own teaching studio.  Children of all ages (including adults) love to be able to “play” with  music and make it their own. . . Sometimes this is more important to them than gaining superb technique and mastering the classics!”
Donna Bath: Oberlin Conservatory; M.M. Butler University; Adjunct Prof Flute & Piano Taylor University

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