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Neryl Jeanneret, Chair
Schalk Fredericks
Scott Goble
Tadahiko Imada
Rita Lai Chi Yip
Jiaxing Xie
 Neryl Jeanneret , Chair
Neryl Jeanneret is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Music in the Faculty of
Education at the University
of Melbourne. She has
lectured to pre-service teachers in Australia,
Canada and the United States
and her publications include national and international journal articles as
well as books and teacher support materials for the Australian Music Centre,
Musica Viva, Opera Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the NSW Board of
Studies and the NSW Department of School Education. She was the National
President of the Australian Society for Music Education (2003-05), and has been
a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Music Education
since 1996. Her current research includes the role of arts organisations and
community artists in education and the development of educational software for
the music classroom.
 Schalk Fredericks
Schalk Fredericks obtained a B.Mus and
Performer’s Diploma at the University
of Cape Town in 1974 and
plays the violin and piano. He has Masters degrees in Education and Public and
Development Management. He lectured at the Rand College of Education from 1976
to 1989 for Junior and Senior Primary teacher training and appointed as music
subject advisor in 1990. He is a music examiner for the Gauteng Department of
Education and served as external examiner at the Johannesburg College of
Education for a number of years. He is presently a member of the Academic
Support Services Unit at the North West
University in Potchefstroom, South Africa.
 J. Scott Goble
J. Scott Goble (Ph.D., Michigan)
is Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University
of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
He began his music education career teaching in public school districts near Seattle, Washington,
later serving on the music faculties of Haverford and Bryn
Mawr Colleges,
Boston University,
and San Francisco
State University.
A specialist in vocal and choral music, he has conducted choirs and
orchestras in professional, community, and educational contexts throughout North America. His research focuses on topics in history
and philosophy of music education, music cognition and semiotics, and music and
social issues.
 Tadahiko Imada
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Tadahiko Imada is an Associate Professor at
Hirosaki University
in Japan,
teaching music education based on philosophy, body movements and the concept of
soundscape. He holds a B.Mus. from
Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo; an MA from Simon Fraser
University where he studied as a
recipient of a Government of Canada Award; and his Ph.D. is from the University of British
Columbia in Canada.
His publications appeared on many
academic journals in the U.S.,
Canada, Australia, Sweden,
Korea, Hong
Kong, India and Japan. He is co-author of A Little Sound Education
(together with R. Murray Schafer, 1996). Prior to joining the faculty at Hirosaki University,
he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Roehampton Institutes London in UK. He was Visiting Distinguished Professor at the
University of Tennessee
at Martin in the US
in 2002. He has been appointed as Vice-director
of the International Music Centre at Hirosaki
University since 2005.
 Jia-xing Xie
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Jia-xing Xie is the Professor and the
Director of the Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory, the
specially hired professor of the Art Institute of Henan University and a member
of the External Examination Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
He holds a Masters Degree in Composition and Theory (1988) and a Ph.D. in Music Aesthetics (2004). He is the President of the
Music Education Commission of Chinese Musicians Association, the Director of
the Music Aesthetic Committee of CMA, the Director of the Music Psychology
Society, the adviser of Asia Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research, and
Commissioner of Commission on Music in Cultural, Educational, and Mass Media
Policies of the International Society of Music Education. Xie’s recent major
publications include: Music Education and Pedagogy (High Education Press, 2006), Contexts of Musics —A
Vision of the Music Hermeneutic (Shanghai Conservatory Press, 2005) etc., and he has had over
80 major academic papers published on academic journals such as People’s Music,
China Music and Music Research since 1994.
 Lai Chi Rita Yip
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Lai Chi Rita Yip (BA,
LRSM, PGDE, MA, PhD) is Assistant Professor of the Department of Creative Arts
& Physical Education, and the Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of
Education (Honours) (Secondary) Four-year Full-time Programme of the Hong Kong
Institute of Education. She has served on the Curriculum Development Council Ad
Hoc Committee on Music Curriculum Development for Primary 1 to Secondary 3; the Committee on Music (Senior
Secondary) of the Curriculum Development Council and the Hong Kong Examinations
and Assessment Authority. In addition to being editors of books, guest editor
and reviewer of journal papers, she has numerous papers presented in
international music education conferences and published locally or overseas. Her
research interests are in music curriculum development, assessment and
learning, education policy, music creativity and technology pedagogy, and
interdisciplinary education. Currently, she is working on a research
commissioned by the Hong Kong Composers’ Guild to develop an assessment
framework for music compositions of primary to junior secondary students.
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