Cynthia Lilley is past president of the Los Angeles Orff Chapter and of the New York Chapter of the Dalcroze Society of America where she served as communications director. She recently served on the Board of the Dalcroze Society of America and is active on several of its committees.
Cynthia Lilley earned a Dalcroze certification and license at the Longy School. She also holds an Orff Certificate from UCLA.
She recently retired from a longtime job teaching Eurhythmics and Music Theory at the Special Music School, a public school in Manhattan for musically gifted children. She continues to teach adult classes in the Dalcroze School at the Lucy Moses School where she joins Michael Joviala and Leslie Upchurch teaching the summer intensive workshop. She also teaches a graduate credit course on the Dalcroze core subjects in the Dalcroze Program at The Diller-Quaile School. Privately, she teaches keyboard harmony.
Cynthia has been a presenter at many Dalcroze and Orff workshops and national conferences, and she has taught summer courses in the Dalcroze approach for music teachers at the Longy School in Cambridge, MA, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, the University of Kentucky Lexington, and Hunter College in New York City.
Cynthia is a composer of piano music and art songs.