6th International Conference
co-organized by G.S.M.E., and the Athens Concert Hall Organisation and the Music Library of Greece "Lilian Voudouri"

"Music: educates, trains, heals"

Athens, Greece
Athens Concert Hall, 30 - 31 October and 1 November 2009

You can download the program here

Keynote Speakers: Graham Welch, Lenia Serghi,
Athanasios Dritsas

For pictures from the GSME 6th conference press here

The 6th International Conference of the Greek Society for Music Education, entitled "Music: educates, trains, heals" aims to bring together people actively involved in music education, in all its forms and every grade and level.

The primary goal of the 6th International Conference is to serve as a forum for the presentation of theories, research projects and practical applications concerning the issues of music education, music training and music therapy.

Proposals may follow one or more of the following thematic axes:

1. Music Education
2. Music Psychology
3. Values of Music training
4. Music and special education
5. Music and medicine
6. Music and the brain

The analytic axes of the 6th Conference are presented on pages 3-4 of the call for papers.

Interested parties are invited to submit proposals for presentations at this Conference. Proposals selected for presentation must be original works and relevant to the thematic axes of the Conference. Acceptable formats include oral presentations (lectures, announcements), posters, proposals for the organisation of round table discussions, and proposals for workshops and performance events.

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Information: www.eeme.gr/en/index.htm

Conference Scientific Committee

Curriculum Vitae

Pamela Burnard (BMus, MMus, MEd, PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, UK where she manages Higher Degree courses in Arts, Culture and Education and Educational Research. She is Co-Editor of the British Journal of Music Education, Associate Editor of Psychology of Music and serves on numerous editorial Boards, including Thinking Skills and Creativity, Journal of Artistic and Creative Education, The Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education, Research Studies in Music, Research Studies in Education, amongst others. She was section editor of the Creativity Section in the International Handbook of Research in Arts Education (Springer, 2007), and co-editor of several books including Reflective Practices in Arts Education (Springer, 2006), Creative Learning 3-11 (Trentham, 2007) and Music Education with Digital Technology (Continuum, 2007). She has participated in numerous international collaborative research teams, with colleagues from Europe, USA, Oceania, South East Asia and the Middle East investigating "Artist-teacher partnerships", "Creative learning", "Children's creativity", and "Inclusive pedagogies in music education", "Arts-based knowledge and creativity" amongst others. She is convenor of British Education Research Association Special-Interest-Group Creativity in Education, Treasurer of the Society for Research in the Psychology of Music and Music Education (SEMPRE) and has served as elected member on ISME's Board of Directors (2004-2008) and as Chair of the Website Management Committee (2005-2008).

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Arvydas Girdzijauskas was born on the 1st January 1957 in Vilnius, Lithuania. He studied at Lithuanian Conservatory as choir conductor, where he graduated in 1979. From 1979 till 1992 he worked as Artistic Director and Main Conductor in Children's choir of Lithuanian TV and Radio. Between 1989 - 1991 he was President of Lithuanian Choirs Union. Since 1992 he is Principal of Klaipeda Vyduno secondarty school, which combines secondary education with stressed music and art programs. Herewith Arvydas Gidzijauskas is a conductor of Vyduno school children's choir and music teacher of the mentioned school. Between 2004 and 2008 he was a doctoral student of Klaipeda University. In 2008 he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled "Development of Moral Culture of Higher Grade Students Through Musical Activity". Arvydas Girdzijauskas is active participant of methodical and scientific conferences in Lithuania and aboard. He published numerous scientific and methodological articles. In 2008 he participated in the World Conference of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) in Bologna. As choir conductor he takes part in numerous festivals and competitions in Lithuania and aboard. A big amount of his awards is won in state and international choir competitions. He is often an invited conductor in State Song Festivals. His main scientific interests centre around the development of personality of students through musical activity.

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Jere T. Humphreys is Professor of Music (Education) at Arizona State University, USA. The author of more than one hundred publications, he is a Senior Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the prestigious MENC Senior Researcher Award from MENC: The National Association for Music Education. A versatile researcher and teacher who applies historical, sociological, philosophical, and quantitative-empirical research methods to music education and arts business, he has served as an Academic Specialist for the U.S. Department of State and on research teams sponsored by the European Union and U.S. National Endowment for the Arts. He has consulted, lectured, and given keynote and other presentations at numerous conferences, universities, and government institutes in twenty-five countries on six continents, and has been a reviewer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities. He has advised twenty-nine doctoral dissertations, several of which received national awards, and currently serves as a thesis advisor and reviewer in Australia, Eastern and Western Europe, and North and South America. Humphreys is the contributing editor for music education for the upcoming second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of American Music (Oxford University Press). He has served on a dozen journal editorial committees and as editor of the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education. He has held boards of director memberships and other leadership positions in numerous state, national, and international professional and humanitarian organizations, including service as a Scientific Advisor for the Greek Society for Music Education.

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Bo Nilsson is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Kristianstad University, Sweden. He received his doctorate in Music Education at University of Lund in 2002. In his doctoral study Bo describes and analyses children's creative music making with digital tools. His research interests are mainly: children's musical creativity and learning; popular culture in the classroom; use of ICT in music education. Bo also takes interest in the field of music and special education. Bo teaches at the programmes for Teacher Education and Health Promotion and Education and takes a special interest in music education for generalist teachers.

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John O'Flynn began his music studies at St Patrick's College and at the Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama. He continued with postgraduate studies at the Kodaly Institute in Hungary and at the University of London. John has many years' teaching experience at primary, conservatoire and university levels, has worked extensively for teachers' in-career music development, and has been centrally involved in advocacy for music education in Ireland. Between 1999-2008 he was a lecturer in music at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick where he also directed a masters in music education. Currently he is Senior Lecturer and Head of Music at St Patrick's College, at Dublin City University. His research interests include the sociology of music, music education practice, and contemporary genres/practices of music in Ireland. John has contributed to international publications in the areas of national identity and music, popular music, and intercultural music education. He recently completed a book entitled The Irishness of Irish music (Ashgate, 2009) and is currently co-editing a volume of essays on music and identity in Ireland. He has presented papers and keynote addresses at conferences in Ireland, UK, Australia, China, Canada, Italy and Greece. In July 2004 John convened the biennial conference of the UK and Ireland branch of IASPM (International Association for the Study of Popular Music), and in July 2009 will chair the 6th International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education in Limerick. Performance interests include singing/songwriting, choral direction and the production of opera for children.

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Sezen Ozeke is an asistant proffesor at music education department at Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey. She received her Master of Music degree (1997) and Doctoral of Musical Arts degree (2003) in music education at Arizona State University, USA. She worked as an Editorial Assistant (2000-2002) for the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, a scholarly refereed journal published twice a year. She also worked as an academic reviewer for Making Music series published by Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Scott Foresman. Her research interests include learning theories in music education especially in early childhood period, Orff and Kodaly pedagogy, music teacher training, and multicultural music education. She has presented papers and workshops at the conferences in Turkey, Norway, Greece, Bulgaria, and in the USA. She is invited as a guest lecturer in Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois working with music and non-music majors as well as master's students in music education. She has taught Turkish children's music at the teacher training institutions in the Netherlands and Denmark as exchange lecturer. She is the coordinator of pre-service teachers' student practices in schools and serving as Faculty ECTS Coordinator at Uludag University. She is also a member of Board of Directors of the Bursa Philharmonic Association and serving as regional coordinator of the European Association for Music in Schools (EAS). She currently involves in EU project (Comenius 2.1), Face-It (Focus on Awareness of Culture and Education for International Teachers), and serves as an academic adviser for the national curriculum development project working towards the development of high school music curriculum (grades 9-12) in Turkey.

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Maria Elena Riano Galan is a Music Education Teacher in the University of Cantabria (Spain). Her researches are linked to questions related to the Musical Management, the Creativity and the Nonformal Education. She has published articles in magazines specialized in musical education and she has edited the book "Creativity in Music Education" in 2007. Nowadays, she takes part in a research suportted by the Foundation Marcelino Botin. It is a program of educational innovation that links the musical contents of the school curriculum with the development of universal values. Since 2006, she is a chairwoman of the Society for the Musical Education of the Spanish State (SEM-EE), across which she has organized different conferences and meetings. It is remarkable to mention the last Conference in Education and Musical Research celebrated in Madrid (Spain) in February of 2008. She has been invited to participate in the Scientific Committee of the Pre-seminar of the International Society for Music Education (ISME), celebrated in the University of Bilbao (Spain) in 2008. Likewise, she has coordinated a symposium in the Conference XXVIII World of the ISME, celebrated in Bologna (Italy).

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Jose A. Rodriguez-Quiles y Garcia was born in Santa Fe, near Granada (Spain). He studied Mathematics, Musicology and Music Education. As the first "Doctor europeus" in this last field he got a fellowship by the Foundation Alexander von Humboldt in order to lead a research in Germany during two years (2003-2005). He is a Professor for Music Education at the University of Granada and National Coordinator for Spain in the European Association for Music in Schools (EAS). Lectures at the University of Arts in Berlin and at the University of Potsdam. His research focuses on curriculum, comparative music education and intercultural music education. Currently he participates as a researcher at the multinational project of the European Commission «meNet» (Network for Communication and Knowledge Management in the field of Music Education).

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Nikolina Ognenska-Stoyanova is a Professor at the South-West University "Neofit Rilsky" in Bulgaria and has a Ph.D in Music Education. She also delivered lectures as a part-time professor at Bourgas Free University in Methodology of Music Education, Music Theory and Solfegge, also at Republic Macedonia -Pedagogic Department town Bitolya. Prof. N. Ognenska is a member of ISME since 1998. She participated with papers and workshops in the conferences held in 2000 in Lincoln (Nebraska); 2002 in Malmo (Sweden); 2002 Bergen (Norway), 2002 in Volos Greece), 2005 in Lamia (Greece), 2006 in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) 2007 in Thessaloniki (Greece), 2007 in Bangkok (Thailand), 2008 in Bologna. The main field of her research work is educating music teachers in kindergarten through high school and Bulgarian folk music, focusing especially on irregular meters. The theme of her Ph.D.(1984) is "Developing a sense of meter through improvisation in Bulgarian folk dances in the first grade". She is the author of the MELOPEIA method for developing musical skills, which is part of music system in Bulgarian schools. Prof. Nikolina Ognenska is a Head of the Department of Music and Vice President of the General Meeting in South-West University "Neofit Rilski"-Blagoevgrad. She is a Head of the Union of Scientists in Bulgaria- brunch Blagoevgrad town and member of the Managing Committee of Union of Scientists in Bulgaria. The author speaks Bulgarian, Russian and English.

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Professor Graham Welch holds the Institute of Education, University of London Established Chair of Music Education and is Head of the Institute's Department of Arts and Humanities. He is elected Chair of the internationally based Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) and a recent past Commissioner and Co-Chair of the Research Commission of the International Society for Music Education (ISME). He holds Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Sydney (Australia), Limerick (Eire), Helsinki (Finland) and Roehampton (UK) and has recently been appointed as a member of the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) review college for music. He has acted as a special consultant to (i) the USA National Center for Voice and Speech (NCVS) in Denver, the Swedish Voice Research Centre in Stockholm and UK Government agencies on aspects of children’s singing and vocal development; (ii) the British Council in the Ukraine and Ministry for Education and Youth in the United Arab Emirates on education and teacher development; and (iii) the National Research Foundation of South Africa and British Council in Argentina on the development of national research cultures in music. Publications number over two 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. Publications are primarily in English, but also in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish and Chinese. He is on the Editorial Boards of the world’s leading journals in music education, including IJME, JRME, RSME, BJME and MER.

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Dr Susan Young is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of Exeter, England and specialises in early childhood studies and music education. She is also a senior research fellow at the Centre for International Research in Learning and Creativity in Education (CIRCLE) at the University of Roehampton, London. She has worked extensively in music and arts education across secondary, primary and early childhood sectors - earlier as a practitioner and for many years now in research, evaluation and consultancy. She is frequently invited to present at both national and international occasions and has published numerous articles in practitioner and academic journals. Her books include Music in the Early Years (with Jo Glover), Music with the Under Fours and a new book, Music 3-5 published this year.

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Polyvios Androutsos (Ph.D.) is a music education specialist and researcher. He has published over 75 articles in Greek and international music education journals, a book and he is also co-author of the music textbooks for 8th and 9th grade general public schools. He has given lectures and held seminars and workshops in Greece and abroad. He has taught music in special schools, primary and secondary schools, as well as music education courses at the Department of Music Science and Arts at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki and at the Faculty of Training Teachers for Nursery Schools at the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki. He has also taught in music teachers further education seminars and was appointed by the Pedagogical Institute to serve in critique committees for textbooks and supplementary teaching materials. He is a founding member of the Greek Society for Music Education (G.S.M.E. ), where he served as president (1997-2003, 2006-2007), and as vice-president (2003-2006). In June 2007 he was elected Honorary President of G.S.M.E. He is also a member of the Board of Directors (2006-2010) of the International Society for Music Education (ISME ) and member of the Scientific Committees of the GSME journal Musical Pedagogics, the International Journal of Music Education: Practice, published by ISME and the mus-e-journal.

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Zoe Dionyssiou is Lecturer in Music Education at the Music Department, Ionian University. She studied education and music. She holds an MA and PhD in Music Education from the Institute of Education, University of London. Her research interests are related to the teaching of Greek traditional music, the secondary Music Schools, globalisation and its effect on Greek music, historical issues of Greek music education, the teaching and learning of music in school and community, inter-disciplinarity, the music teacher, etc.

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Eleni Lapidaki is currently employed as an Assistant Professor of Music Education at the Department of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has a law degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an M.A. in music education and music psychology from the School of Music, Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. from the School of Music, Northwestern University. Her dissertation has been given the “Outstanding Dissertation in Music Education Award” by the Council for Research in Music Education (CRME). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journals Music Education Research and International Journal of Music Education: Research. Her publications concern a closer interaction between the artistic, scientific, and pedagogical aspects of temporal experience in music, on the one hand, and creativity, imagination and society, on the other. As the founder and coordinator of the interdisciplinary research project C.A.L.M. (acronym for Community Action in Learning Music) that is funded by the Aristotle University Research Committee and aims for a music education that breaks down the social, artistic, and pedagogical gap between university music students and students of hospital schools and "neglected" schools who are excluded from the public sphere of music education, expression, and creativity. During her sabbaticals in 2001 and 2004 she taught as an invited scholar at the University of Cyprus (School of Education) and the Universiteit van Amsterdam (Musicology Department), respectively.

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Dr Ioulia Papageorgi is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Psychology and Human Development at the Institute of Education, University of London. She teaches in the areas of Psychology of Music, Music Education, Musicians' Health and Well-being, Psychology of Education, Research Methodology, and Statistics. She has a BA in Music from the University of Leeds, an MA in Music Education and a PhD in Music Psychology and Psychology of Education from the Institute of Education, University of London. She also holds Piano and Harmony Diplomas from the National Conservatoire. Her research interests focus on the psychological factors that affect performing musicians, such as performance anxiety, self-beliefs, the strategies that musicians employ to cope with the demands of performance, as well as how expertise develops. She has presented her work at international conferences and seminars and has published papers in international peer-reviewed journals. She was the coordinating research officer for the ESRC TLRP funded research project "Investigating Musical Performance: Comparative Studies in Advanced Musical Learning" (2006-2008). She is currently a coordinating research officer for the "National Singing Programme in England" (2007-2011) evaluation (Youth Music). She has also worked in research teams for the "National Survey of Music Services 2007" (DfES), "Evaluation of the Impact of Additional Teacher Training in the Delivery of Music at Key Stage 1" (EMI Music Sound Foundation) and several other funded research projects in the fields of music, psychology and education. She is an invited reviewer for the journal "Psychology of Music" and is a member of the scientific committee of GSME’s journal "Musical Pedagogics".

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