Bo Wah Leung, Hong Kong, Chair

Department of Creative Arts & Physical Education
Hong Kong Institute of Education
10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, N.T.
Hong Kong, China

Dr Bo Wah Leung is Assistant Professor in Music Education at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia. His areas of research interest include creativity in music teaching and learning, music curriculum development and teacher education. Dr. Leung is currently one of the founding Co-Editors of the Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education and on the editorial boards of the Complutense Electronic Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Education Research International, and Journal of Music Learning and Teaching. His most recent publications include a Chinese book titled Creative Music Making: New Trends in the New Century and a series of secondary music textbooks.

In serving the profession, Dr. Leung is currently the founding President of the Hong Kong Association for Music Educators and was a director of the Hong Kong Treble Choirs Association. Dr. Leung had also served for music curriculum development of Hong Kong in different committees of Education Department and the Hong Kong Examination and Assessment Authority. Since 2002, Dr. Leung has served as a Commissioner in the Music in School and Teacher Education Commission (MISTEC) of the ISME. He was a Board Member of the ISME in 2004-06.

Gunnar Heiling, Sweden

Malmo Academy of Music
Box 8203
Malmo SE 200 41 Malmo
Sweden
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Dr Gunnar Heiling is Associate Professor in music education at the Malmö Academy of Music. He has worked with teacher education as teacher, researcher and administrator since 1967, at the Malmö Academy of Music since 1980. Has made tours in Europe, USA, Australia and China as brass-player and educator. He has published books and papers on many topics within the field of /music/ education, such as assessment and evaluation in schools, in music and in teacher education, social processes and musical development in bands, conflict-solution in bands, postmodernism and music in the Swedish national curriculum and research training in music teacher education. Has recently worked with an educational training program for teachers at university level in music, theatre and visual arts and published a report on the National assessment of music in the Swedish compulsory school. Ongoing research project: Evaluation of Music Teacher Education Programs in Europe (the EU) and Latin America. He is an ISME-member since 1990, organizer of different national and international research seminars in Music education, and a co-organizer of the MISTEC-seminar in Malmö 2002.

José Luis Arostegui, Spain

Faculty of Education
University of Granada
Campus de Cartuja, s/n
18071 Granada
Spain
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José Luis Aróstegui is a faculty member in the Department of Music Education at the University of Granada, Spain. His formal training is in Western classical music, education and qualitative research. During 2001-2003, he held a postdoctoral fellowship sponsored by the Ministry of Education of Spain at CIRCE, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. He has presented papers at a number of international conferences (AERA, ISME, AEA) and published articles in such journals as Revista de Educación, Aula de Innovación Educativa (in Spanish), International Journal of Music Education, Education Policy Analysis Archives (in English) and Em Pauta (in Portuguese). His most recent publication is an edited book, The social context of music education, published by CIRCE. José Luis Aróstegui has recently been appointed by the Europe Aid Co-operation Office of the European Commission to co-ordinate, on behalf of the University of Granada, a major evaluation of Music Teacher Education Programmes. He was also recently appointed to serve as a member of the Editorial Committees of The Quality of Higher Education journal, issued by the Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, and the International Journal of Music Education, by ISME.

Veronika Cohen, Israel

Dean, Faculty of Music Education
Theory, Composition, Conducting
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
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Dr Veronika Cohen is Chairman of Department of Music Education at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. She has a master's degree from Yale University in composition and received her Ph.D. in music education from the University of Illinois in 1980. Her research interests have focused on the development of musical cognitive processes, with special emphasis on development of musical creativity. She has developed an approach for intuitive reflection through the use of kinaesthetic analogues or "musical mirrors" for musical cognitive processes. Her work has been presented at many international conferences and published in various journals.

Before moving to Israel in 1979, Dr. Cohen taught in the United States and Canada. In Israel, in addition to her teaching activity, for the past fifteen years she has been involved in a project of prepared concerts for pupils of K-12. She currently serves on a committee for developing a national curriculum as well as a committee for closing social gaps. Her project relates to social integration through the medium of Arab music.

She also serves as Advisor to the Ministry of Education. Her publications include contribution to Music Education Entering the 21st Century, ISME, edited by Patricia Shand, 2004, "Musical Creativity: A Teacher Training Perspective", chapter in: Creativity & Music Education, edited by Timothy Sullivan & Lee Willingham, published by Canadian Music Educators Association, Edmonton, 2002, and "What if Kids Could Choose" in Canadian Music Educator, Spring 2002.

Jody Kerchner, USA

Oberlin College Conservatory of Music
77 W. College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
USA
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Dr Jody L. Kerchner is Associate Professor and Director of Music Education at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she is the secondary school music and choral music education specialist.  Prior to teaching at the collegiate level, Dr. Kerchner taught K-8 general and choral music.  She received degrees in music education and vocal performance from West Chester University and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.  She has presented workshops and research papers in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Dr. Kerchner is co-author of Prelude to Music Education (2003) and author of several chapters in edited books.  She is on the editorial boards of Contributions to Research in Music Education and the Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education. Dr. Kerchner's research interests include children's responses during music listening, choral music education, and teacher education.  She has designed, implemented, and written about portfolio assessment, music listening pedagogy, and reflective thinking tools that pre-service music teachers experience in her music education and choral methods courses.

Deirdre Russell-Bowie, Australia

School of Education
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith South DC NSW 1797
Australia
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Deirdre Russell-Bowie is currently an Associate Professor in Creative Arts Education at the University of Western Sydney where she has been lecturing, practising and researching in Music and Creative Arts education for the past twenty-five years. She has also taught music education students and teachers in Australia, Canada and South Africa. Deirdre has published prolifically in the area of music and creative arts education, and, as well as being in demand as a practitioner-researcher, Deirdre has written over thirty Creative Arts resource books since 1981, that have sold both nationally and internationally. Her latest book, MMADD about the Arts: An Introduction to Primary Arts Education is used as a set text in many universities across Australia. Her research interests relate to pre-service teacher education in the creative arts, the arts and at-risk children and creative arts education in the primary school. In recognition of her teaching she was the winner of the prestigious 2001 Australian Award for University Teaching (Social Sciences). Deirdre has been attending ASME and ISME conferences as a member and been a member since 1988, and has also presented at seven ISME conferences, seven ASME conferences and four MISTEC seminars over the past 14 years.