Eric Rasmussen is chair of the Early Childhood Music department at the Peabody Preparatory of Johns Hopkins University where he has been teaching his own music curriculum to babies through 9-year-olds since 2000. While pursuing his masters degree in Music Education, he studied personally with Dr. Edwin E. Gordon from 1986-1989 at Temple University. He later returned to Temple and, in 2004, he completed his PhD in Music Education. Dr. Rasmussen has been privileged to be able to teach almost exclusively incorporating the principles of Dr. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory for over 30 years in early childhood, choral, instrumental, and general music education settings.
Dr. Rasmussen composes early childhood music repertoire and has performed several research studies investigating music aptitude and music achievement including one study involving children with cochlear implants. He has developed a measure of harmonic music aptitude for children ages 3-7 and will soon publish his specialized music learning curriculum. His “Harmonic Learning Sequence” is a breakthrough method to help very young musicians (as well as older ones) understand harmonic functions by ear. Dr. Eric has presented at several regional and national early childhood and music education conferences including the Early Childhood Music and Movement Association, the Gordon Institute for Music Learning, Maryland State Department of Education Research Forum, Music Teacher National Association, and at the 2016 Zero to Three Early Childhood conference as a keynote speaker.
For fifteen years, Dr. Rasmussen mentored scores of music teachers in the Baltimore City Public School System. He also leads professional training sessions for early childhood music teachers. Dr. Eric plays trumpet primarily in traditional jazz bands, but also enjoys sitting in with rock, indie, and blues bands. For more information, visit his website at http://www.teachmusictokids.com. http://teachmusictokids.com
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