Prof. Dr. MUSTAFA HİLMİ BULUT

(SEMPOZYUM BAŞKANI)

Mustafa Hilmi BULUT is a Professor at Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey. He authored thirteen books titled “Sivas Folk Dances in Violin Education”, “Song Box I” (Children Songs), “The Ethnography of the Music from Zara Region”, “Scientific Research Articles on Music”, “Special Teaching Methods in Music”, 12 Original Compositions in Eight Maqams With Detailed Maqams Definitions” and “Song Box II” (Children Songs), “Mustafa Sağyaşar’s Biography”, Microtonal Musics with Piano Accompany for Violin”, “Instrument teaching methods and techniques specific to the violin”, “Fascinating Fun facts of Music” (Author: Nick Patterson, Translater: Mustafa Hilmi Bulut), “Arife Tülay Canik Biography, TRT Documentary, Music Education and Style She Got at Istanbul Municipality Conservatory” .

He has given numerous concerts at the national and international level, on Traditional Forms of Turkish Music and Western music. He also presented numerous papers at various conventions and symposiums in Turkey, Poland, America, Ukrain and Hong Kong.

Prof. Bulut took part in workshops on “Using the Violin in Turkish Music” at the University of South Florida in the US, and at Castello Branco, Portugal. His oud recitals at the University of South Florida, Universitas Indonesia and  the University of Mississippi in the US received great acclaim. He also provided insights into the field at workshops on Traditional Turkish Music with Oud, in Estonia.

He made numerous presentations and published many works on music education and musicology. He is the composer of a significant number of works in school music as well as Turkish Classical Music. He has coordinated numerous SRP Projects so far.

Personal website: https://www.mustafahilmibulut.com/

Prof. Dr. C. VICTOR FUNG

C. Victor Fung is Professor of Music Education and Director of Center for Music Education Research at the University of South Florida (USF). He advises doctoral students and teaches graduate courses in social psychology of music, music in higher education, measurement and evaluation in music, and other music education research courses. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award at USF (2017). He was a Fulbright researcher in Japan (2018). His research emphasizes social psychological aspects, multicultural issues, and international perspectives of music education. His recent projects include Asian philosophies in music education, music participation and senior citizens’ quality of life, and world music preferences. He has given over a hundred presentations at professional conferences and has given open lectures and seminars at over thirty institutions across five continents. He was a featured keynote presenter at meetings in China, Japan, and Mexico.

His books A Way of Music Education: Classic Chinese Wisdoms (2018) and Music for Life: Music Participation and Quality of Life of Senior Citizens (co-authored with Lisa Lehmberg, 2016) are published by Oxford University Press. He has also published articles in numerous refereed journals, including Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, College Music Symposium, Contributions to Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, Journal of Research in Music Education, Journal of Technology in Music Learning, Philosophy of Music Education Review, Psychology of Music, Research Studies in Music Education, and Update: Applications of Research to Music Education. He was the editor of Research Perspectives in Music Education, Music Education Research International, and the Research and Scholarship Component of the College Music Symposium. In addition, he has reviewed for a dozen other professional journals. Some of his works have been translated into Chinese and Japanese.

He has served as a Board Member for the International Society for Music Education, the College Music Society, and Florida Music Education Association. Furthermore, he is affiliated with professional organizations such as the American Educational Research Association, the National Association for Music Education, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. His Ph.D. in music education, with minor areas in ethnomusicology and conducting, comes from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Prof. Dr. IAN FILLIS

I am a leading entrepreneurial small business researcher, with other research interests in creativity, arts marketing and consumer research. I have built an extensive international research network, extending to Europe, North America and Australia where I am currently engaged in a number of funded research projects on arts and entrepreneurial marketing. My research output includes over one hundred single and jointly authored refereed papers. I was Principal Investigator of an AHRC funded Cultural Value project. My record of securing external research funding also includes awards from the ESRC, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Arts Council and the Arts Council England. I have been Visiting Distinguished Thought Leader at the University of South Australia, University of Tasmania Distinguished Visitor and the Bowater Visiting Research Fellow, Deacon University. I am also the Editor of the forthcoming

Edward Elgar Handbook on Marketing and Entrepreneurship.

Prof. Dr. KARI K. VEBLEN

Kari K. Veblen is Professor Emeritus of Music Education at Western University in London, Ontario. Thus far her career spans four decades of work as: an elementary music teacher, community musician, faculty member at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, curriculum consultant to orchestras and schools, visiting scholar at University of Toronto, research associate at University of Limerick, and research associate at University of Waterloo. Veblen has served in numerous professional capacities, including the International Society for Music Education board, and as co-founder/co-editor of the International Journal of Community Music.  Her research interests include community music networks, formal/ informal/nonformal contexts for learning, music through the lifespan, traditional transmission, vernacular genres, interdisciplinary curriculum, musical play, and social media. She is working on her sixth book Learning Music Through Play in Diverse Contexts with co-editors Stephen J. Messenger, Francis Dube, Jean-Philippe Després and 33 co-authors as part of the ISME/Routledge International perspective series.

Prof. Dr. LISA J. LEHMBERG

She specializes in general music education, music education for students with special needs, world music education, and music education technology. Her research interests include urban music education and senior citizens’ participation in music.

Dr. Lehmberg has given research and practice-based presentations at International Society for Music Education world conferences, National Association for Music Education national conferences, College Music Society/Association for Technology in Music Instruction national conferences, and National Multicultural Music Symposia, as well as music educator association conferences and professional development days in Florida, New England, and throughout the Midwest.

She is author of the book The Challenges and Rewards of Urban Teaching: Six Elementary Music Teachers’ Perceptions of Effective Teaching and Pre-Service Preparation for Urban Classrooms; articles in Music Education International, Music Education Research International, and various state music educator journals; two encyclopedia chapters in Springer's Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning; and book chapters in the NAfME publication, Kaleidoscope of Cultures - A Celebration of Multicultural Research and Practice and the Rowman-Littlefield publication Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Elementary General Music.

In 2016, Prof. Lehmberg's book Music for Life: Music Participation and Quality of Life of Senior Citizens, co-authored with C. Victor Fung, was published by Oxford University Press. It presents a fresh, new exploration of the impact of musical experiences on the quality of life of senior citizens, and charts a new direction in the facilitation of the musical lives of people of all ages. 

Prof. Dr. MEHMET EFE

He was born in Bilecik. He started his first music education by taking baglama lessons from his father İbrahim and brother Erkan EFE, both of whom were very valuable educators. In 1990, he entered Ankara Anatolian Fine of Arts High School. Here he started his violin education with Prof. Sadettin ÜNAL and piano education with Dr. Mansur ÖZEN and graduated as the first in the department. In 1994, he enrolled in Gazi University Music Department. During his high school and undergraduate education, he gave many solo concerts and also gave concerts as a soloist and orchestra member with Gazi Youth Chamber Orchestra. In April 1999, he won the research assistant exam at G.Ü.G.E.F Music Education Department. In January 2000, he was appointed to this position. In 2001, he completed his master's programme at Gazi Institute of Educational Sciences and in 2007 he completed his doctorate education. During a period of his doctoral education, he studied conducting with Prof. Erol ERDİNÇ, a faculty member of Hacettepe University State Conservatory. Efe gave many concerts as a soloist and orchestra member with Gazi Academic Orchestra during his undergraduate and doctoral education. In addition to violin studies, he has been working on flute, Albert system G Clarinet, Turkish Clarinet, Ney by developing his ability to play different instruments. In 2011, Efe was appointed as a assistant professor. Prof. Efe, who was appointed as Dr. Lecturer in 2011, received the title of Associate Professor in the field of violin interpretation in January 2014 and Prof. in 2020. In 2012, he is the permanent conductor of Gazi Youth Chamber Orchestra, which he started as the founder. In addition to his academic studies, he continues his experiments and stage works on different music genres.

Prof. Dr. MINE DOĞANTAN-DACK

Mine Doğantan-Dack is a musicologist and a concert pianist whose playing has been described as “an oasis” and “heaven on earth”.  She is internationally regarded as a leading figure in Music Performance Studies and has published many articles on music performance, and several edited books including Recorded Music: Philosophical and Critical Reflections (2008), Artistic Practice as Research in Music (2015), Music and Sonic Art (2018), Rethinking the Musical Instrument (2022) and The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century (2022). Mine was born in Istanbul, and studied at the Juilliard School (BM, MM) with the eminent Russian pianist Oxana Yablonskaya on a scholarship from the Turkish Ministry of Education for Young Artists. While at Juilliard she won the prestigious William Petschek award. Mine also holds an BA in Philosophy, and a PhD from Columbia University in Music Theory. She performs as a soloist and chamber musician, and has given concerts in USA, UK, Germany, France and Turkey. She performed most of the major piano concerti with various orchestras, participated in the Mozart Bicentennial Festival in New York, and recorded the music of JS Bach and Scriabin for WNCN. She also recorded various programs for the Turkish radio and television. Mine is the founder of the Marmara Piano Trio and received an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for her work on chamber music performance. Mine is also the artistic director of the London-based orchestra Ensemble Vita Nova. She is a member of the Honorary Board of the Anselmo Academy of Music and the Arts in New York, dedicated to bringing music and arts education to children from all backgrounds. Mine regularly gives lecture-recitals and conference presentations. She taught performance and performance studies at Middlesex University, the University of Oxford, and currently teaches at the University of Cambridge.  Her recent projects include two edited volumes for Routledge on The Music Performer’s Lived Experiences.

Prof. Dr. ÖZLEM ÖZALTUNOĞLU

Özlem Özaltunoğlu is a Professor of Solfege and Music Theory Education at the Sivas Cumhuriyet University. She authored three books titled "555 Melodic Dictation", "Solfege with Canons I", "Dictation with Four-Part Chord Progressions". She was born in Köln in 1978. She completed her undergraduate (1999) and graduate (2003) education in the Music Education Department of Dokuz Eylül University. She took her doctoral degree in 2011, at İnönü University.  She received the title of Associate Professor in 2018 and Professor in 2024 in the field of Music Theory.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. CLINT RANDLES

Clint Randles is Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of South Florida School of Music and recipient of the 2015 Michael L. Mark Music Research Award for outstanding research by an early career scholar/researcher, issued by the University of Michigan.

Randles teaches “Progressive Music Education Methods” at the undergraduate level, and “Philosophical and Historical Perspectives in Music Education” and “Creativity in Music Teaching and Learning” at the graduate level for students in the College of the Arts and the College of Education. He also teaches classes for students with disabilities in a community music outreach sponsored by Arts4All Florida. He has recently served as Chair of the Creativity Special Research Interest Group of the National Association for Music Education.

His research interests include the intersection of motivation theory and creativity, and exploration of the construct “creative identity.” Randles has presented papers at state, national, and international conferences in the US, Canada, Brazil, Egypt, England, Ireland, Finland, China, Australia, and New Zealand. He has articles (24) published in the Michigan Music Educator, Music Education Research International, the Journal of Music Teacher Education, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, General Music Today, Research Studies in Music Education, the Journal of Aesthetic Education, Arts Education Policy Review, the British Journal of Music Education, the International Journal of Music Education, the Journal of Music, Technology, and Education, the International Journal of Community Music, the Journal of Genius and Eminence, the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Music Educator’s Journal, and Music Education Research. Contributions to the Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, and the Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (1st and 2nd editions), both published by Springer. Randles has published 14 book chapters in numerous handbooks for Oxford, Routledge, CMEA, GIA, R&L Education and others. He has two co-edited books: Musicianship: Composing in Band and Orchestra (GIA Publications), and Music Education: Navigating the Future (Routledge). Randles has formed two book series, Musicianship through GIA Publishing (Chicago) and the New Directions in Music Education series with Routledge (New York) to assist the music profession in realizing expanded curricular possibilities on a large scale. Two monographs are forthcoming in 2020: (1) To Create: Imagining the Good Life Through Music (GIA Publications: Chicago, IL), and (2) Music Teacher as Music Producer: How to Turn Your Classroom into a Center for Musical Creativity (Oxford University Press: New York).

Prior to his appointment at USF, Dr. Randles taught general music and band in the public schools of Michigan for nine years. He has written arrangements and original compositions that have been performed by both marching bands and children’s choruses. He currently enjoys playing guitar, mandolin, accordion, and Maschine every opportunity that arises.

A Michigan native, Randles received his bachelor of music education degree from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan, and both his Master of Music and Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education degrees from Michigan State University.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. SELİN ÖZDEMİR

Born in 1990 in Giresun, Turkey. She started her violin education at Hacettepe University State Conservatory in 2001. She completed Gazi University Educational Sciences Institute Music Education Master's Program in 2015 and her Ph.D. in 2021. Özdemir gave many solo and chamber music concerts during her high school, undergraduate and graduate education. She gave many concerts in Turkey as a member of the “Helios Ensemble” they founded between 2014-2016. Özdemir took part in many concerts in Turkey and abroad as a Konzertmeister in the Gazi Youth Chamber Orchestra, which was established in 2013. On the other hand, she has been continuing her chamber music studies with Efe's Quartet since 2018. Özdemir, who started to work as a Research Assistant at Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Education Faculty, Fine Arts Education Department, Music Education Department in 2016, continues to work as an Assoc. Prof. in the same institution.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. SHARON LIERSE

Dr Sharon Lierse is an academic, researcher and a performer with a specialty in music education. She has worked as a university lecturer in Australia and Asia, a management consultant and as an international curriculum specialist for UNESCO. Her academic roles have included Associate Professor in the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts in Malaysia where she was founder and Managing Editor of the Malaysian Music Journal, lecturer in curriculum at the University of Tasmania and Manager of Professional Learning at the Australian Council for Educational Research. She has published widely and has given conference presentations around the world including keynote presentations in Europe and Asia. Her primary research interest is in intercultural pedagogy with a focus on comparing excellence in education. Other research areas are arts pedagogies, the performing arts, lecturing in the online environment, curriculum and assessment.

Assist. Prof. Dr. ABIGAIL VAN KLOMPENBERG

Abigail Van Klompenberg is Assistant Professor of Music Education at Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota), where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music education. Dr. Van Klompenberg also supervises student teachers in Minnesota and North Dakota, including placements in elementary general music classrooms and secondary performing ensembles. Before teaching at the collegiate level, she taught K-12 general music and choir throughout the United States over the course of 13 years. She is a National Board Certified Teacher in Early-Middle Childhood (Vocal Music) and is fully certified in Orff Schulwerk by the American Orff Schulwerk Association (AOSA). Dr. Van Klompenberg’s research focuses on trauma-informed education, teacher mental health, and preservice music teacher education.

Assist. Prof. Dr. DAVID DOCKAN

David Dockan is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at Louisiana State University (LSU), where he teaches elementary music methods, teaching music in diverse settings, and champions the integration of popular music in the curriculum. His research focuses on democratic music education, popular music pedagogies, music teacher professional agency and fostering inclusive music classrooms. Committed to empowering future music teachers, David envisions classrooms where students create music that reflects their diverse experiences and cultural backgrounds.

Assist. Prof. Dr. DERYA KAÇMAZ

Derya Kaçmaz has been an Assistant Professor at Sivas Cumhuriyet University since 2003, serving in the Faculty of Education, Fine Arts Education Department. She specializes in music education, with a focus on choir conducting and holds a Ph. D. in music psychology. Her research centers on choral music, conducting polyphonic choirs, and exploring topics related to the social psychology of music. Kaçmaz teaches courses in vocal training, polyphonic choir, music psychology, and choral conducting.

Assist. Prof. Dr. GÖRKEM KUMTEPE

She was born in Ankara. She started music by taking violin lessons at the age of 11. She got into Samsun İlkadım Anatolian Fine Arts High School in 2003. She started her first viola studies with Ebru YAMAN AYGÜL. She transferred to Bolu Anatolian Fine Arts High School and continued her viola studies with Müjde SARISÖZEN DOĞAN. The year she graduated from high school, she got into Gazi University, Gazi Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts Education, Department of Music Education. Here, she continued her viola studies with Dr. Lecturer Serkan ÖZAY. She was accepted to the master's program in 2011 and to the doctorate program in 2015 at the same institution. She continued her viola studies with Prof. Ayfer TANRIVERDİ and Prof. Dr. Aytekin ALBUZ during her postgraduate education. She taught viola-piano at Kırıkkale University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Music between 2011-2013, and piano between 2018-2019. Between 2013-2015, he worked as a Research Assistant at Giresun University. Between 2014-2016, he gave many concerts in Turkey as a member of the "HELIOS ENSEMBLE". He took part in many concerts in Turkey and abroad with the Gazi Youth Chamber Orchestra, which was founded in 2013. In 2015, he transferred to the Ministry of National Education and started working at Pursaklar Imam Hatip Secondary School. Later, he taught viola at Ankara Fine Arts High School. He passed the Science and Art Center teacher recruitment exam and worked at Yenimahalle Science and Art Center for 3 years. Between 2020-2021, he worked as a Music Field Specialist at the Ministry of National Education's General Directorate of Innovation and Educational Technologies and as the project coordinator in the Music in Education Project. He participated in the masterclasses of Efdal ALTUN in 2017 and Prof. Burcu YAZICI in 2019 as an active participant and worked on both playing and teaching instruments. She participated in many national and international concerts with the Capital Chamber Orchestra, the Silk Road Orchestra and the Folk Melodies Orchestra. In 2020, she represented Turkey in the “WORLD TOUR” project prepared by the London Film Orchestra, which included many different countries. She continues to take part in many important concerts and recordings with the “EFE’S QUARTET” they founded under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Mehmet EFE in 2018 and “DIYALOGLAR” they started working on in 2021. In 2021, she started working as a faculty member at the Department of Music Education in the Fine Arts Education Department of Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University. In 2022, she transferred to Kırıkkale University and continued her same duty in the String Instruments Department. She currently works as an Assistant Professor at the same institution and continues her studies in the field of viola education. Her most meaningful title is being the mother of Çınar Ege.

Dr. ANNA BERESFORD

Anna Beresford has a PhD in Social and Ecological Sustainability from the University of Waterloo. Her main research area focuses on identifying and supporting the socio-economic patterns that are present in traditional music cultures and resilient and embedded local communities and economies for the purposes of fostering societies that are more sustainable, vibrant, whole, and conducive to human flourishing. She has worked with many music communities throughout the North Atlantic, including, eastern Canada and the Shetland Islands, UK, and has presented her work at many international conferences. She has a chapter in the Routledge anthology Liberty and the Ecological Crisis, and has recently had a chapter accepted to the Oxford Handbook of Music and Aging, which is co-authored with Kari Veblen. 

GAMZE KARAHASANOĞLU

Born in 1992 in Çorum, she began her music education in 2004 at Çorum Anatolian Fine Arts High School. She graduated from the school in 2008 and was admitted to the Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts Education, Music Education Program at Sivas Cumhuriyet University. She chose voice education as her major and studied under Dr. Lecturer Derya Kaçmaz throughout her education. In 2012, she graduated as the top student in the Faculty of Education. The same year, she started working as a music teacher in Yozgat. Since 2021, she has been teaching violin, polyphonic choir, and Western music theory and practice at Yozgat Nida Tüfekçi Fine Arts High School. Karahasanoğlu is currently pursuing her graduate studies at the Faculty of Education, Department of Fine Arts Education, Music Education Program at Cumhuriyet University.

JUAN CARLOS NAVARRO GIMENO

Juan Carlos Navarro Gimeno, has taught violin in institutes, workshops, and masterclasses in Spain, France, England, Ireland, Lithuania, Iceland, Poland, Belgium, Switzerland, Scotland, and Sweden. Trained as a Suzuki Teacher at the British Suzuki Institute. Also trained in Rolland Pedagogy, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and Music Mind Games. He is an officer on the board of the European Suzuki Association. Since 2005 has been teaching violin in the Conservatorio “Torrejón y Velasco” in Albacete (Spain). Since 2022, teacher at “Master Universitario en Pedagogía Instrumental” at  Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio (Spain).

NICK PETERSON

As a performer, composer and author of numerous books and resources in the field of music education, Nick Peterson (D.O.B. 15^th October 1957) is an inspirational music educator who draws from a wealth of knowledge gained from over forty years of experience as a dedicated musician.

Beyond being a classically trained pianist and graduate of the NSW State Conservatorium (Dip. Mus. Ed. 1975 with high distinctions in Music Education and Composition), Nick is adept in synthesizer technology and proficient both as a literate and ear-playing musician. A musical polyglot, Nick has been a keyboardist in a diverse range of ensembles including: Ethnic, Rock, Jazz, Soul, Latin American and Funk bands. Accordingly, he has toured with pop artists, played on ocean liners, accompanied innumerable club acts and gained experience with the acoustics of venues ranging from goat-sheds to the Sydney Opera House.

The breadth of musical perception gained from such extensive experiences is reflected in the broad range of styles in which Nick authentically composes. Professionally, he writes in assorted genres for radio and television advertisements and scores for live theatre productions. Educationally, Nick creates musical examples to specifically illustrate the musical devices he teaches. He composes and arranges music for classroom ensembles and creates tailored compositions for student performances. For his own pleasure Nick enjoys creating works which stretch musical boundaries, always seeking to broaden the scope of styles for which he writes.

The enhanced musical understanding acquired from such multi-faceted musicianship is at the very heart of Nick’s teaching. He delights in sharing his expertise; particularly in imparting insights that raise eyebrows and put smiles on student faces. However, embedded in the light-heated approach are ground-breaking methodologies that generate musical perceptions empowering students to reach their potential.  As an educator Nick maintains that music should be taught as a first language rather than as a second, and asserts that adequate education in a creative art form such as music should go beyond creating ‘clones’, producing instead: unique, independent and creative musicians.

Nick has taught music at all levels of schooling: infant, primary, secondary and university, and amongst former students is a string of thriving music educators and performers. An erudite and energetic clinician, Nick conducts professional development workshops for high school and private music teachers, and, has presented at state and national conferences for:

• ASME (Australian Society for Music Education)
• MTA (Music Teachers Association)
• AMUSE (Association of Music Educators)
• APPC (Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference),

and internationally for:

• ISME (International Society for Music Education)
• ANZARME (Australian and New Zealand Association for Research in Music Education)
• Musiclearninglive!Asia
• National Institute of Education (Singapore)
• ASPMER (Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research).

Nick has written numerous books and resources in the field of music education. Recent titles include:

 The Concepts of Music series;

• ‘An Introduction To The Concepts of Music’
• ‘The Concepts of Music, A Multimedia Resource For Junior Music’
• ‘The Concepts of Music, A Multimedia Resource For Elective Music’

‘Rhythm Reading and Dictation’
‘Music’s Fascinating Fun Facts’
‘Keyboard Music Lab’
‘Equipping Pianists for Superior Sight Reading

For more information visit www.insightmusic.com.au