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Contact Information:
Office: TJ Majors 105
Office Phone: (402) 872-2210
Email: DDeFrain@peru.edu
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10 Fall Course Offerings:
Musc 112 (section 000A) - Beginning Class Piano
Musc 251 (section 000A) - Elementary Music Methods
Musc 211 (section 049X, 1st 8 week session - Online) - Music Appreciation
Bio:
Debra Wehrmann-DeFrain has been a music teacher since the 1970s, working with pre-K through retirement age musicians in her private studio and in volunteer church work, and pre-K–college graduate students in the public and private schools. Debbie has taught all levels of keyboard, instrumental, orchestral and vocal music, and is a judge and clinician for those same genres on the district and state levels for Nebraska Music Teachers Association, Nebraska School Activity Association, and various Nebraska music contests. Debbie teaches Piano, Music Appreciation, World Music, Arranging, Jazz History and Class Piano. She enjoys her work as guest conductor for community orchestras and bands, and is a performing member of Lincoln Community Concert Band, Great Plains Music Society, Lancaster Brass, and formerly with Lincoln Civic Orchestra and Nebraska Wind Symphony. Debbie earned her Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Education from the University of Nebraska, with majors in piano and low brass and a minor in vocal music. She studied with Tom Fritz, Larry Lusk, Harvey Hinshaw, Vernon Forbes and Judy Cole, and counts Jack Snider, Professor, Emeritus, as her mentor.
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