Matilda Giampietro has been teaching music and movement at Washington Montessori School for 27 years. She has given the teacher training program in Montessori Music at the Center for Montessori Teacher Education for 18 years. Matilda has presented many workshops on Music and Movement for Montessori Schools (New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida), Early Childhood Conferences, Montessori teacher training programs (New York, Arizona, New Jersey), and Orff Schulwerk workshops. In 1996 she was a music presenter at the International Montessori Conference in Rome. She is a soprano, performing Medieval and Renaissance music and dance with The Everyman Guild. Matilda has served on the Board of the Connecticut Orff Schulwerk Association for 10 years. She is a past board member of CMEA, assisting with the Connecticut Elementary General Music Conference.

She is a sought-after clinician, and greatly enjoys teaching Montessori Music materials, songs, singing games and dances. Her work involves helping people find, explore, develop and enjoy their own musical abilities through singing and dancing together, which build and sustain the human community.

On May 8, 2009 Matilda received her Doctorate in Sacred Music on May 8, 2009 at The Graduate Theological Foundation in South Bend Indiana. She received the Presidential Merit Scholarship. Her degree was based on her work at WMS developing community through non-religious ceremonies involving singing and dance, and her work as soprano and director with The Everyman Guild (an eight-member performance group specializing in the music and dance of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance). The title of her doctoral dissertation is "Building the Human Community and the Development of Spiritual Awareness Through Communal Singing and Dancing. "    

Workshops by Matilda Giampietro in 2008 and 2009 have included:

• February 13, 2009 at Hands-On Montessori, 12 Creeden Street, Mansfield MA 02048
• November 14 and 15, 2008 Carrollton School, Miami, Florida
• September 19, 2008 Resurrection Episcopal Day School, New York, NY
• August 26, 2008 Madison Public Schools Elementary Music Teachers, Madison CT
• July 28 through August 1, 2008 Week-long Music and Movement Workshop, Washington Montessori, New Preston CT
• February 9, 2008 The Children's School, Stamford CT
• February 8, 2008 MSC (Montessori Schools of CT) Workshop, Washington Montessori School, New Preston CT

• December 1 and 2, 2007 CMTE Music Teacher Training at Warwick, New York
• October 13, 2007 Boulder Knoll Montessori, Cheshire, CT
• September 2007-June 2008 Music Consultant to Sherman CT Public Elementary School on development of music program
• September 21, 2007 The Montessori School, Clemmons, North Carolina
• September 14 and 15, 2007 Rainbow Montessori School, Hollywood, Florida
• August 24, 2007 Woodland Hills Montessori School, North Greenbush, New York
• July 9 through 13, 2007 Week-long Music and Movement Workshop, Washington Montessori, New Preston CT
• May 19 and 20, 2007 CMTE Music Teacher Training, San Juan, Puerto Rico

• CMTE (Center for Montessori Teacher Education) at Warwick,NY, December 1 and 2, 2006
• Montessori Schools of Connecticut, at Washington Montessori School, November 10, 2006
• Great Beginnings Montessori, Fairfield, CT September 1, 2006
• Lexington Montessori, Lexington, MA, May 20, 2006
• CMTE Warwick, New York, Spring Closure, May 6, 2006
• West Conn State University International Folk Dance with Judith Cook Tucker, Spring Semester 2006
• Young Elementary Music Symposium Ellenville, New York February 25, 2006

• CMTE, Warwick, New York, Dec. 3, Dec.4, 2005
• CTAOSA Recorder Session, CCSU November 19, 2005
• Elementary General Music Conference, New Britain CT October 15, 2005
• Chrismont Montessori, Summit, New Jersey, July 21, 2005
• CMTE Warwick, New York, Spring Closure, May 7, 2005
• Connecticut Recorder Festival Coach and Conductor, South Britain, CT
• Oak Meadow Montessori, Littleton, MA, March 2, 2005 March 30, 2005
• Summit Montessori in Framingham, MA February 11, 2005