James Harding teaches music to students ages 3 through 14 years old at the San Francisco School. He has been doing workshops for teachers since 1999 for local Orff chapters across the US and Canada, and has been a featured presenter internationally at courses in Thailand, Australia, Brazil, Spain, and at the Orff Institute in Salzburg, Austria. James is on the faculty of the Orff-Schulwerk Levels trainings in San Francisco and at Cal State Los Angeles. He is a past-president of the Northern California AOSA, and was a local co-chair for the recent National Orff Conference "The Art of Play" in San Jose, California.  James is currently at work on "From Wibbleton to Wobbleton," a book of musical lesson ideas inspired by traditional rhymes.