James Harding

James Harding teaches music to children ages 3 to 13 at the San Francisco School. Working with long-time colleagues Sofia López-Ibor and Doug Goodkin, James has helped to develop an Orff Schulwerk program that has received international recognition. James is a graduate of Yale University and also studied music at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
He has presented workshops throughout the United States and internationally in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Taiwan, China, Korea, Thailand, Scandinavia, Spain, and South America, and has been a guest teacher at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria. James studied and performed Balinese music with Gamelan Sekar Jaya for 15 years, and took part in two performance and study tours in Bali with that group. James is the author of "From Wibbleton to Wobbleton," (Pentatonic Press, 2013) a collection of music and movement lesson ideas focusing on creative play.