Susan Brumfield is associate professor of music education at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, and holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Oklahoma. She is known throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom as a clinician, consultant, author, composer, arranger, and conductor of children's choirs, and is an internationally recognized Kodály educator. Dr. Brumfield is a program author for the national series music texts, Silver Burdett Ginn Making Music. Her choral music is available through Colla Voce Music and Hal Leonard Publications. Susan was invited by the International Kodály Society to represent the United States with a new choral composition commissioned for the internationally released IKS publication Music: A Universal Language.

Dr. Brumfield specializes in the study of performance style in traditional music, and has done extensive field research in England and Scotland, tracing the roots of American folk music in traditional British music.Susan is currently completing Over the Garden Wall and Hot Peas and Barley-O, two new collections of children's songs and games from England and Scotland for use in the music classroom, published by Hal Leonard. She has begun research for a new book on the life and work of English children's folksong collector Father Damian Webb, and spent a 2005 sabbatical conducting research and teaching in England, Hungary, and Italy.