Penny Dimmick
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

DIRECTING BUTLER PREPARATORY CHOIR

Professor of Music, Butler University School of Music

Dr. Penny Dimmick, Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Music Education Program joined the faculty at Butler University in 1991. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in music education and also serves as the Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in the School of Music. Prior to her appointment at Butler, she taught public school general music and percussion in Northeast Indiana and was an adjunct faculty member in music education and percussion at Taylor University, Ball State University, and Marian University. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Taylor University, and a Master of Music and Doctor of Arts degrees in Music Education and Percussion Performance from Ball State University. She is certified in Orff, Kodály, First Steps in Music, Conversational Solfege (F.A.M.E.) and Level I of the Teaching Guitar Workshops sponsored by GAMA and NAfME.

In 2024, Dr. Dimmick was awarded the University Music Educator of Excellence award from the Indiana Music Education Association. She is also the recipient of several teaching awards at Butler University and received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the School of Music at Ball State University. She is a frequent clinician at state, national, and international music conferences and has recently served as conductor for the Nebraska All-State Honor Children’s Choir and the Indiana All-State Honor Children’s Choir. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Indiana Music Education Association (IMEA) for over 25 years and has served on the National Collegiate Advisory Board of NAfME, the National Association for Music Education. She is also an evaluator and team chair of accreditation visits for the National Association of Schools of Music.

Dr. Dimmick has been an Assistant Director with the Indianapolis Children’s Choir for 27 years, where she directs the Preparatory Choir, a program that she helped to develop. When she is not teaching, she enjoys traveling, hiking, time at the beach, and attending professional baseball games with her husband John, and her two grown sons and their families.