Gary E. McPherson is Ormond Chair and Director of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne. He is editor of The Science and Psychology of Music Performance (OUP, 2002, with Richard Parncutt) and The Child as Musician: A Handbook of Musical Development (2006) and co-author of Music in our lives: Rethinking musical ability, development and identity. A past President of the International Society for Music Education, he has published well over 100 publications across a range of music education and music psychology topics.

Graham Welch is Chair of Music Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. He is elected Chair of the internationally based Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) and Immediate Past President of the International Society for Music Education (ISME). His publications number over three hundred and embrace musical development and music education, teacher education, the psychology of music, singing and voice science and music in special education and disability.

Mayumi Adachi, Hokkaido University

Randall Everett Allsup, Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City

Janet R. Barrett, Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University

Margaret S. Barrett, School of Music, The University of Queensland, Australia.

Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, Queensland Conservatorium

Alfredo Bautista, University of Victoria

Robert Burke, Monash University

James L. Byo, Louisiana State University

Jean Callaghan

Lily Chen-Hafteck, Kean University

Don D. Coffman, University of Iowa

Richard Colwell

Andrea Creech, Institute of Education, London; Open University

Jane Davidson, University of Western Australia

Sharon G. Davis, Loudoun County Public Schools, Leesburg, Virginia

George M. DeGraffenreid, California State University, Los Angeles.

Robert A. Duke, The University of Texas at Austin

David J. Elliott, New York University

Steven M. Demorest, University of Washington

Steve C. Dillon, Queensland University of Technology

Robert Edwin

Shirlee Emmons

Magne I. Espeland, Stord/Haugesund University College

Sam Evans, Melbourne Tabla School; Monash University

Martin Fautley, Birmingham City University

Sergio L. F. Figueiredo, State University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Helena Gaunt, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London

Wilfried Gruhn, University of Music Freiburg, Germany

Susan Hallam, Institute of Education, London

David Hargreaves, Roehampton University

Eve Harwood, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Lee Higgins, Boston University

Donald A. Hodges, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Jere T. Humphreys, Arizona State University

Beatriz Ilari, University of Southern California

Neryl Jeanneret, Melbourne Graduate School of Education

Harald Jers, Cologne University of Music

Harald Jørgensen, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo

Margaret Kartomi, Monash University

Reinhard Kopiez, Hanover University of Music and Drama, Germany

William R. Lee, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Andreas C. Lehmann, Hochschule für Musik Würzburg

Chee-Hoo Lum, National Institute of Education, Singapore

Raymond MacDonald, Glasgow Caledonian University

Stephen Malloch, MARCS Auditory Laboratories at UWS

Esther Mang, Hong Kong Baptist University

Kathryn Marsh, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney

Marie McCarthy, University of Michigan

Gary E. McPherson, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music

Dorothy Miell, BSc., PhD., CPsychol., University of Edinburgh

Steven J. Morrison, University of Washington

Graça Mota, Polytechnic Institute, Porto; CIPEM (Research Center in Psychology of Music and Music Education).

Bruno Nettl, University of Illinois

John Nix, University of Texas-San Antonio

Oscar Odena, University of Hertfordshire

Susan A. O'Neill, Simon Fraser University,

Ioulia Papageorgi, Institute of Education, University of London

Kenneth H. Phillips, Gordon College; The University of Iowa

Chris Philpott, University of Greenwich

Lisa Popeil

Johnmarshall Reeve, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea

James Renwick, Sydney Conservatorium of Music (SCM), University of Sydney

John W. Richmond, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Carlos Xavier Rodriguez, University of Michigan

Nelson Roy, The University of Utah

S. Alex Ruthmann, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Robert T. Sataloff, Drexel University College of Medicine

Huib Schippers, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University

Frederick A. Seddon, University of Northampton

Patricia Shehan Campbell, University of Washington

Eric Shieh, Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School, "School for a Sustainable City", New York City

Gary Spruce, The Open University

Johannella Tafuri, Conservatoire of Bologna

Sten Ternström, KTH, Stockholm

Sandra E. Trehub, University of Toronto

Colwyn Trevarthen, University of Edinburgh

Kari K. Veblen, University of Western Ontario

Michael Webb, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney

Graham Welch, Institute of Education, University of London

Heidi Westerlund, Sibelius Academy

Ruth M Wright, University of Western Ontario

Jackie Wiggins, Oakland University

Jenevora Williams, National Youth Choirs of Great Britain.

Michael D. Worthy, University of Mississippi, Oxford

Susan Young, Exeter University

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