PAMS SUMMIT 2017

6–8 April 2017

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

“Is the Conservatory Dead?”

 

Delegates and Institutions Australia University of Melbourne Barry Conyngham, Dean, Faculty of VCA & MCM

Sydney Conservatorium of Music Anna Reid, Dean Canada University of British Columbia Richard Kurth, Director, School of Music China Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts Shane Levesque, Senior Lecturer Shanghai Conservatory of Music Wang Rui, Vice President Zhu Dandan, Program Manager, International Exchange Centre Japan Tokyo University of the Arts Isao Matsushita, Vice President, Performing Arts Center Korea Seoul National University Shinuh Lee, Associate Dean, College of Music Jong Hwa Park, Head, Piano Department, College of Music New Zealand University of Auckland Martin Rummel, Head of School, School of Music Singapore Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Bernard Lanskey, Director Taiwan Taipei National University of the Arts Jinny Liu, Dean, School of Music Thailand Mahidol University Darin Pantoomkomol, Associate Dean, College of Music United States University of Southern California Robert Cutietta, Dean, Thornton School of Music Mist Thorkelsdottir, Senior Advisor for International Relations  

Programme Thursday 6 April 2017 09:00 Foyer, School of Music, 6 Symonds Street Opening Event Whakatau Ceremony

Dr Te Oti Rakena Associate Dean (Māori & Pacific), Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries

Words of welcome from

Professor Jenny Dixon Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Strategic Engagement), University of Auckland

Morning tea 09:30 Walk to Department of Dance Studies.

Morning session: room 421W-518, 26 Symonds Street 10:00 Delegates will give a short overview of their institution, with a focus on

programme pathways and graduate profiles 10:30 “Fine tuning – Life after Tertiary Music Studies. A Case Study” (Martin Rummel, School of Music, University of Auckland) Discussion 12:30 Lunch at Old Government House 14:00 Afternoon session: room 423-340, 22 Symonds Street to 16:30 “The balancing act between employability, specialisation and education

value – or: how to prepare today’s students to be a portfolio musician” 19:00 Dinner Vivace Restaurant, 50 High Street, CBD Friday 7 April 2017 10:00 Morning session: room 421W-518, 26 Symonds Street

(Guest speaker: Anastasia Belina-Johnson, Assistant Head of Undergraduate Programmes, Royal College of Music)

11:00 Morning tea 11:30 Discussion to 12:30 Conjoint (dual) degrees: University Music Education of the Future? 13:00 Music Theatre, 6 Symonds Street

Lunchtime Concert 14:00 Lunch at Old Government House Afternoon Free for individual sightseeing 19:30 Music Theatre, 6 Symonds Street Gala Concert: Launch of the School of Music’s newly acquired fortepiano

Saturday 8 April 2017 09:15 Meet at Ferry Terminal, 99 Quay Street 09:30 Ferry Departure to Waiheke Island Transfer to Cable Bay Vineyard, arrive at approximately 10.30 10:30 Morning session to 12:15 Topics: Potential for joint degrees between two institutions Staff and student exchanges 12:15 Lunch 13:30 Final Session Topics: 2018 Summit in Los Angeles Future of the Organization 14:15 Wine Tasting 15:00 Transfer to Waiheke Ferry Terminal 15:15 Ferry Departure 19:30 Farewell Dinner at Fish Restaurant, 147 Quay Street (Level 1, Hilton

Auckland, Princes Wharf) Sunday 9 April 2017 Taxi vouchers will be provided Information The University of Auckland’s School of Music has its main building on 6 Symonds Street, Auckland 1010. The Music Office is open on weekdays from 8am to 4pm. Contact details:

Associate Professor Martin Rummel MRSNZ, Head of School DDI: +64(9)9232071, M: +64221020574, E: m.rummel@auckland.ac.nz

Grace Jung, Executive Assistant DDI: +64(9)9233319, M: +64211451054, E: g.jung@auckland,ac.nz

Pamela Kam, Music Office DDI: +64(9)9234660, E: p.kam@auckland.ac.nz

Please come to the Music Office on 6 April before the official welcome event to collect your personal folder with a campus map and further useful information.  

Australia University of Melbourne Barry Conyngham, Dean, Faculty of VCA & MCM

Australian composer Barry Conyngham MA (Hons) Syd, DMUS Melb. studied with Peter Sculthorpe and with Toru Takemitsu. He is Emeritus Professor from both the University of Wollongong and Southern Cross University, the later where he was Foundation  Vice –Chancellor (1994-2000). He is also the first musician to hold the Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University (2000-2001). He has been a Churchill, Harkness and Fulbright Fellowship holder. In 1997 he became a Member of the Order of Australia. With premieres and performances of his works in Japan, North and South America, Europe, the UK and Australia, Conyngham is one of Australia’s international composers. He has over seventy

published works and over thirty recordings including those by the London, New Zealand, Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras. Recent premieres include the orchestral work Cala Tuent (2008) in Spain, Australia and Hong Kong, and the double bass concerto Kangaroo Island (2009) in the United States. 2011 will see premieres of Fallingwater for two bassoons and orchestra, Showboat Kalang for the Australia Ensemble and Gardener of Time a new work for the Melbourne Symphony. He has been involved with a number of arts organisations including, the Australia Council (Chair of Music Board), Opera Australia (Deputy Chair), the World Music Council, NORPA (treasurer) and the Australian Music Centre (Chair) and more recently the Australian Music Examinations Board and Australian National Academy of Music. In early February 2011 he commenced his appointment as Dean of the Faculty of Victorian College of the Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne. In 2016 he was awarded the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne.  

Australia Sydney Conservatorium of Music Anna Reid, Dean

Professor Reid has established an international reputation for her research and collegial approach to learning and teaching development. Her practical and research interests in social equity and professional preparation have led to the creation of internship programs, ‘buddy’ relationships with regional conservatoria, freeing up the music curriculum to deliver greater student choice, enhancing student engagement with musical  studies, and fostering equity programs for the University’s music faculty.

 

Canada University of British Columbia Richard Kurth, Director, School of Music

After undergraduate studies in mathematics (B.Sc., University of Toronto) and graduate studies in Oboe performance with Bert Lucarelli (M.Mus., Hartt School of Music) and then with Robert Bloom and Sara Lambert Bloom (Artist Diploma programme, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music), Richard Kurth earned his Ph.D. in Music  Theory at Harvard University, under the supervision of David Lewin. His research interests include theory and analysis of 19th- and 20th-century repertoires, connections between music and poetry in vocal music, and relations between performance and analysis. His numerous publications on diverse aspects of Arnold Schoenberg's music have appeared as chapters in

the Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg and in three other edited volumes, and as articles in Music Theory Spectrum and the Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center. Additional articles on theoretical and analytical dimensions of twelve-tone music have appeared in the Journal of Music Theory and Theory and Practice, and essays on Schubert's vocal and instrumental music have appeared in 19th-Century Music. Richard was co-recipient of the 1993 Society for Music Theory Young Scholar Award, and has served on the Review Board of Music Theory Spectrum, and on numerous conference program committees. His research has received grant funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His doctoral supervisees and co-supervisees hold full-time positions at numerous universities in Canada and the U.S. Richard has been a faculty member at McGill University (1992-93), the University of Western Ontario (1993-94), and at the University of British Columbia since 1994. At UBC he has served as Director of the School of Music since July 2007, with his second term extending to July 2018. As Director, he has supervised renovation of the Opera Theatre (535 seats) and Recital Hall (255 seats), evolution of the curriculum, and renewal of almost half of the full-time faculty positions. Current development projects include strategic planning for a new rehearsal facility and a capital campaign to renew the School’s fleet of pianos.  

China Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts Shane Levesque, Senior Lecturer

Canadian keyboardist Shane Levesque completed his DMA in historical performance practice and MA in musicology at Cornell University, his MMus in both piano performance and pedagogy at the Peabody Conservatory, and his BMus with a double major in piano and organ performance at Brandon University. He has performed concerts, lecture recitals, and improvised continuo on original and replica fortepianos, harpsichords, clavichords, and organs in Canada, the United States, Hong Kong, England, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Hungary. Recent collaborations include as continuoist for a Le French May programme of Rameau with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and for Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with Helmut Rilling, and as soloist in Bach’s Fifth Brandenburg Concerto

with Sir James Galway and The Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra at City Hall, broadcast on RTHK Radio 4. Shane’s first place performance at the Canadian National Music Festival for the former Governor General of Canada was broadcast on CBC Radio 2. He is an international working group member of the Polifonia-Erasmus Network for music education, and a participant in the Association Européenne des Conservatoires (AEC) European Platform for Artistic Research in Music, as well as its Early Music Platform. His article on the art of the improvised nineteenth-century piano prelude was published in the Dutch Tijdschrift voor Musiektheorie, and he is a contributor to the Polifonia Working Group on Mobility: Recognition, Monitoring, and Joint Degrees Report.  

China Shanghai Conservatory of Music Wang Rui, Vice President Zhu Dandan, Program Manager, International Exchange Centre

Wang Rui, Ph.D., Researcher, Vice President of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Director of the Music Research Institute of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Doctor Wang’s main academic fields include composition theory of Chinese contemporary music, music analysis, Chinese music history, art criticism, etc.

Zhu Dandan, Bachelor of Piano Performing Arts, Master of Music, was awarded the Outstanding Graduates Awards of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music as well as of Shanghai City in 2007. Since 2007, she has been working as a Project Manager in the International Exchange Center of Shanghai Conservatory. She has published the Chinese translation of Joseph Kerman's Contemplating  Music: Challenges to Musicology, collaborating with Dr. Tang Yating.  

Japan Tokyo University of the Arts Isao Matsushita, Vice President, Performing Arts Center

Isao Matsushita obtained both his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Tokyo University of the Arts and the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. Matsushita has participated in several music festivals, such as the “World Music Days of the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM)” in Graz in 1982, the "Horizonte Festival” in Berlin 1985, the European Music Days in Copenhagen 1985 or the “Invention Festival” in Berlin 1986, to name a few. His composition TOKI-NO-ITO (Threads of Time) for String Quartet won first prize in the Mönchengladbach International Composition Competition in Germany in 1985. In 1986, Matsushita was awarded the seventh annual Irino

Prize for TOKI-NO-IT for piano and orchestra. In 2000, his Japanese Drum Concerto HI-TEN-YU was performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. His opera Shinano-no-Kuni･Zenkoji-Story was premiered as cultural program of the Winter Olympic Games 1998 in Nagano. He was a jury member of the “Gaudeamus Music Festival” in 2005 and of the inaugural Isan Yun Composition Competition in 2007. He is now Vice-President of and Professor at the Tokyo University of the Arts, President of the Japan Federation of Composers (JFC) and Chairman of the Asian Composers League (ACL). www.isao-matsushita.jp  

Korea Seoul National University Shinuh Lee, Associate Dean, College of Music Jong Hwa Park, Head, Piano Department, College of Music

Shinuh Lee’s career as a composer started when her trio Space was selected at the ISCM World Music Days 1991 in Zurich. Lee studied composition with Sukhi Kang at Seoul National University and later with Michael Finnissy at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Analogy for Oboe and Ensemble written in her first year at the R.A.M. won the Royal Philharmonic Society Prize for Composers 1992, and her other works were also selected in Musical Times Composers’ Competition, Cornelius Cardew Composition Prize and Gaudeamus International Composers’ Competition consecutively and became known to Britain and Europe. In 1997, her orchestral piece Psalm 20 , based on researches on ancient Hebrew music and the book Psalms, was selected in Leonard Bernstein International Jerusalem Composing Competition and premiered by Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and its revised version was premiered by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the ISCM World Music Days 1998 in Manchester.

Shinuh Lee’s work is being performed by many soloists, ensembles, and symphony orchestras. Her clarinet concerto commissioned by Seoul International Music Festival was premiered by Michel Lethiec and Korean Chamber Ensemble conducted by Grzegorz Nowak. Lament for clarinet and string quartet was also premiered by Michel Lethiec and Ensemble Opus at Casals Festival in France. In 2014-2016, Lee was also invited for a composition faculty of the Young Artists Summer Program of the Curtis Institute of Music, and she was also commissioned a piece for semifinalists of Seoul International Music Competition in 2011 & 2015. She obtained a Dip. RAM from Royal Academy of Music, and her M.Mus and D.Phil from the University of London and Sussex University respectively. She was appointed as a Professor in composition at College of Music, Seoul National University and has taught composition and music analysis. She has worked as an artistic director to Studio 2021 since 2003.

Jong Hwa Park is a concert pianist and a professor. Born in Korea, he began playing the piano at age four. Park established his international credentials at an early age. There followed a string of engagements across Europe, the United States and Asia where he performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras. Park’s diverse career in music reflects his passion for both performance and education. Since becoming a faculty member at the prominent Seoul National University in 2007 at age 33, he has designed and organized innovative lectures and international festivals. Park is a passionate advocate of modern music and is a frequent guest at major festivals worldwide. In his youth, he studied at the Preparatory School of Tokyo Music College in Japan and the Preparatory School of New England Conservatory in the United States. In 1992, Park was offered a full scholarship at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where  he followed the great artistry of legendary pianist Russell Sherman. Park completed his

Bachelor and Master degrees with Honors. Upon completing his Master’s program, Park moved to Europe where he was invited to study at a number of prestigious institutions. In 1998, he studied at the Il Fondazione per Il Pianoforte in Como, Italy where studied with Dmitri Bashikrov, Joaquin Soriano, and Elisso Wirssaladze. Concurrently, Park received musical guidance from Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Leon Fleisher and Martha Argerich. In 1999, Park followed Bashkirov to Spain, where he obtained the prestigious Artist Diploma – a highly selective degree reserved only to a handful of candidates each year—from Escuela de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid. In 2003, Park moved to Germany, where he enrolled in the distinguished Meister Podium program at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Munich.  

New Zealand University of Auckland Martin Rummel, Head of School, School of Music

“[…] a tempting concept to present Rummel as the latest candidate for ‘most distinguished Viennese cellist of today’. And perhaps he is.” wrote David W Moore in the American Record Guide about Martin Rummel’s album of Merk’s Fleurs d’Italie” (Naxos) in 2013. Born in 1974, Martin Rummel is not only the last pupil of the legendary William Pleeth, but also with over 40 CD albums on labels such as Naxos, Capriccio and Musicaphon one of the most distinguished cellists of his generation. As a soloist and chamber musician he regularly performs with orchestras and at festivals and venues throughout Europe, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. Recent

seasons saw concerts at venues such as the Vienna Musikverein as well as at "alternative" venues (eg Klärchens Ballhaus in Berlin) alongside concerto engagements with orchestras such as the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the the Orquestra Sinfónica de Chile, the Orquestra Filarmónica de Santiago and the Kölner Akademie. Chamber music concerts led to collaborations with artists such as Dimitri and Vovka Ashkenazy, Walter Auer, Alfred Brendel, Nicolas Deautricourt, Mei Yi Foo, Homero Francesch, Lena Neudauer, Menahem Pressler, Norman Shetler, Hugo Ticciati and many other renowned musicians of all generations. Not only because of his editions of all major cello etudes for Bärenreiter-Verlag he is a well-respected pedagogue and is regularly invited to give masterclasses all over the world at institutions such as the New England Conservatory and the Longy School in Boston, the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen, the Orchesterzentrum in Dortmund, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the Universidad de Chile, the University of Andrews or the Internationale Sommerakademie Lenk, to name only a few. Furthermore, he is a passionate ambassador for classical music – as such he has curated numerous festivals, hosted his own radio show in Austria and is the owner and mastermind of paladino media, with four CD labels (KAIROS, paladino music, Orlando Records and Austrian Gramophone), a publishing house and a distribution company being one of Europe's most diversified business in the classical music industry. Since the mid-1990s, he owned or had various famous instruments on loan, by makers such as Matteo Goffriller ("Sabatier", 1690), Tommaso Balestrieri (1778), Georges Chanot (1840), Giacomo Zanoli (1737) and the "Ex Tolbecque" by Gustave Bernadel (1898). He increasingly enjoys playing a cello by Martin Horvat, Cremona 2010. For all his instruments, he uses hand-made strings by Thomastik-Infeld, Vienna. www.martinrummel.com  

Singapore Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music Bernard Lanskey, Director

Bernard Lanskey is currently Dean of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore, an institution he has now led for 10 years. From 1994-2006, he was Assistant Director of Music at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama London overseeing the ensemble and postgraduate programmes. Since 2005, he has also been an Artist-in-Residence at La Loingtaine, near Fontainebleau, France. Currently President of the South East Asia Directors of Music Association (SEADOM) and a co-opted Council member of the European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), he is active as an administrator, pianist, scholar, recording producer, festival director and on international competition juries, including in 2012 as President of the jury of the Geneva International Piano Competition. Born in Cairns in northern Australia, Bernard Lanskey originally studied music alongside philosophy and mathematics, at the

University of Queensland, graduating in 1981 with 1st Class Honours. He subsequently moved for more specialised pianistic studies first to Paris and then to the Royal College of Music in London to complete a master’s degree with Peter Wallfisch. In 2001, he was awarded a Fellowship (FGSM) by the Guildhall School and a full professorship at the National University of Singapore in 2008. As a collaborative pianist, he has performed throughout Australia, Great Britain, China and South-East Asia and in most European countries, working principally with string players and singers in chamber music, mixed recital and lecture recital combinations with his regular partners, violinists Aki Sauliere and Qian Zhou, the German soprano Felicitas Fuchs and British television journalist John Suchet. Since moving to Singapore, he has also performed with violinists Renaud Capucon, Joshua Bell, Kam Ning and Zuo Jun, soprano Katherine Broderick, cellists Qin Li Wei and Pierre Doumenge and pianists Stephen Emmerson and Daniel Tong. CD releases have included Intimate Correspondences, featuring music by Brahms and Schumann inspired by Clara Schumann (with Aki Sauliere and Felicitas Fuchs); The Inner Line, four-hand piano music by Brahms, Schubert and Andrew Schultz (with Stephen Emmerson); and Clarinet: North South East West with Marcel Luxen and Qin Li Wei. He has also organised a range of festivals and concert series in Australia, the UK, France, Greece, China, Japan, Switzerland and Singapore. His research interests build out from his longstanding activity as a collaborative pianist and chamber music coach focusing particularly on chamber music interactions and on exploring the vital role played by metaphor and gesture in the pedagogical process. Over the past decade, he has also become active as a recording producer, working with a range of artists on recordings released to critical acclaim on Decca and Centaur amongst others.  

Taiwan Taipei National University of the Arts Jinny Liu, Dean, School of Music

One of the active musicians in Taiwan, Professor Jinny Liu received her music training at the National Taiwan Academy of Arts, the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts and at the Manhattan School of Music. Prof. Liu was principle flutist of the Taipei City Symphony Orchestra and currently is principle flutist of the Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra and the “Wings of the Angel” Symphonic Band. Besides performances of recitals and chamber concerts, Liu has played concertos of Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Mercadante, Reinecke, Ibert, Griffes, Jolivet and Gordon Chin. Liu has performed concerts in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, USA, Canada, Austria,

France, Belgium, Germany, Russia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and China. Now devoting most of her effort into higher education, Prof. Liu is a senior professor at the Taipei National University of the Arts. She was the Chairman of Music Department from 2001 to 2007 and Director of the International Exchange Center from 2009 to 2011. Liu was elected to serve as Dean of the School of Music of Taipei National University of the Arts from 2008 to 2014. Seeking globalization for its music students’ vision, Liu enthusiastically enabled large student groups to perform abroad regularly and arranged international master classes. Recent activities of Liu to participate in the international events include serving as a jury member of the 8th Kobe International Flute Competition, hosting the 5th congress of the Asia Flutists Federation, and serving as the music coordinator of the opening ceremony of the 8th World Games in Kaohsiung. Prof. Liu is currently Acting Dean of the School of Music.  

Thailand Mahidol University Darin Pantoomkomol, Associate Dean, College of Music

A Jazz educator and performer, Darin Pantoomkomol was born in 1971 and started his classical piano lesson from the age of seven. He graduated with a Bachelor and Master of Business Administration from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, and the University of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, respectively. Since his primary school days, Darin has had a strong interest in music, especially in the style of jazz. Accordingly, Darin started his first professional gig as a pianist at the age of 14, while studying in grade nine.

As a Jazz performer, Darin has performed extensively with various internationally renowned

Jazz artists, including Pat Harbison, Jakob Dinesen, Randy Johnston, Hugo Rasmussen, Terumasa Hino, Tiger Okoshi, Peter King, Alexander Beets, and Eugene Pao, among others. Additionally, his various other musical interests have kept Darin active in Bangkok’s mainstream music scene. Currently, he also enjoys his career on mainstream music composing/arranging, film music production, and studio musician.

Darin Pantoomkomol has performed both as a leader and with Thailand’s leading jazz group, “Pomelo Town”, in many international music festival and concerts, e.g. Copenhagen Jazz Festival (Copenhagen, Denmark), World Saxophone Congress 2012 (Saint Andrews, Scotland), East Meets West Concert: Corfu Festıval, (Corfu, Greece), a Pomelo Town’s Concert at Weimar School of Music (Weimar, Germany), Ufa Jazz Master (Ufa, Russia), and many more. Apart from performing at major national and international jazz events, Darin also recorded four albums with the “Pomelo Town” including Chasin’ Saengrawee, Highway Bebop, Passage to the Origin, and A Tale from Pomelo Town.

Currently, Darin Pantoomkomol is an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Chair of the Jazz Department at the College of Music, Mahidol University and teaches Jazz piano and guitar and Jazz Improvisation.

United States University of Southern California Robert Cutietta, Dean, Thornton School of Music Mist Thorkelsdottir, Senior Advisor for International Relations  

Robert Cutietta is Dean of the Thornton School of Music and the Kaufman School of Dance at the University of Southern California. Since 2002, he has overseen an expansion in endowment, programs, and space within Thornton while building upon the traditional quality of education that is the school’s trademark. Under Dr. Cutietta’s leadership, the Thornton School has introduced innovative new degrees in music education, arts journalism, visual and performing arts studies, choral music, vocal jazz, and the groundbreaking popular music performance program. In the fall of 2014, a graduate degree  in Music Leadership was introduced further positioning the Thornton School as an innovator in music instruction. In 2011, he was asked to create the first new school at USC in 41 years; the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. Since then he has overseen the hiring of the entire faculty and staff of the new school as well as the construction of the 59,000 square foot Kaufman

International Dance Center. The Kaufman School officially opened in the fall of 2014. In 2010, USC Thornton moved into a combination of new and newly renovated spaces, constituting a 40% increase in physical size. A new practice room facility, orchestral rehearsal hall, and amplified rehearsal hall was added to totally renovated homes for jazz, studio/jazz guitar, student services, film scoring, and technology. During his tenure, the Thornton School’s endowment has seen a dramatic increase with the addition of five new endowed faculty chairs and one professorship, tens of millions of dollars in new scholarships, and funding for new endeavors such as an ensemble touring fund and a travel fund for student finalists in national and international competitions. He has been especially effective supplementing the already illustrious faculty with new world-class artist/teachers such as Midori, Bob Mintzer, Glenn Dicterow, Ralph Kirshbaum, Patrice Rushen, Peter Webster, Lamont Dozier, and Young Guru. Since 2006, he has hosted Ask the Dean, a popular weekly segment on Classical KUSC, the largest classical music station in the nation. He has also performed and composed music for television and movies. He is a founding member of Montana Public Broadcasting and currently a member of the Advisory Board of Classical KUSC Radio in Los Angeles, The Orange County School of the Arts, The Maestro Foundation, and the GRAMMY Blue Ribbon Adjudication Committee. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and was designated the 2001 Alumni of the Year from the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State University. In 2007, he received the Amicus Poloniae Award from the Government of the Republic of Poland. Cleveland State University awarded him the 2008 Alumni of the Year from the College of Arts and Letters. He has published a wide range of articles on many subjects related to Music Education. He is also author, co-author or editor of four books and has contributed chapters to several others including The Handbook of Research on the Teaching and Learning of Music. He has sat on the editorial boards of the Journal of Research in Music Education, and Contributions to Music Education. His two most recent books are Raising Musical Kids: A Parent’s Guide (2013), and Who Knew? Answers To Questions About Classical Music You Never Thought To Ask (2016) both published by Oxford University Press. Prior to his appointment as Dean, Cutietta had a successful career as a musician and researcher. He was director of the School of Music and Dance at the University of Arizona and held faculty positions at Kent State and Montana State Universities. He received his doctorate in music education and psychology from Penn State University and his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Cleveland State University.

After completing studies in the USA Mist Thorkelsdottir embraced Icelandic musical life, teaching and being active in various artistic organizations as well as composing. She has received commissions and grants from performers and organizations in America and Europe. In 2001 Mist Thorkelsdottir founded the Music Department of the Iceland Academy of the Arts and was Dean of Music until 2014. From 2014 – 2016 she was the Head of the Academy of Music and Drama of the University of Gothenburg. She has been a member of the board of the Association of Nordic Music Academies since 2002 and was a council member of the European Association of Music Conservatories (AEC) between 2006 and 2012. She is a founding of MusiQuE, European Quality Enhancement and Accreditation Agency for higher music education, and sat on its board until 2017. Since July 2016 Mist has held the position Senior Advisor to the Dean for

International relations at USC Thornton School of Music.