Madura, Patrice

Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman is professor of music education at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington. A specialist in choral music education, vocal jazz, and vocal music research, she is a former professor and music education department chair at the University of Southern California, and a former faculty member and conductor of choral ensembles at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. She also has taught choral and general music for grades K-12 and has performed extensively as a pianist. Professor Madura is the