Orff-Keetman Summer Course

Mon, Jun 15 - Fri, Jun 26 2026, All day

$500, 1 week Curriculum Development Option

$800, 2 week Level 1 or Level 2 Options

Housing Options Available

University Credit Available

Unfortunately the 2026 Orff-Keetman class has been cancelled due to low enrollment. Please check back next year, we hope you'll be able to join us in the future!

Every summer the Music Education division hosts multiple programs for professionals, students, and community members to grow and improve their skills.

The Orff-Keetman approach, or Orff Schulwerk, is “Music for Children”, a way to teach and learn music using poems, rhymes, games, songs, and dances as basic materials. This approach was created by composers Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman in Europe. The emphasis is on students as improvisers and performers. This year marks 40 years of Orff-Keetman training at the University of Kentucky! If taken for credits, Orff-Keetman training be used to count toward a Graduate Certificate in Orff Schulwerk and a MM degree concentrating in Orff Schulwerk.

View from a high vantage point of a brightly lit dance studio full of people sectioned off in group of two to three moving to music. The mirrors along the back wall reflect the dancing students as well as the scenery outside large windows on the opposite side.