
COMMITTEES
Scientific Committee
Chair: Dr John Habron-James
Head of Music, Health and Wellbeing
Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK
Vice-Chair: Professor Liesl van der Merwe
Professor, School of Music and the Faculty of Humanities
North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Professor Louise Mathieu (retired)
Retired Professor, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
Director of Studies, Dalcroze Canada;
Co-Director of the Dalcroze Eurhythmics International
Examination Board (DEIEB)
Dr Ruth Alperson
Dean Emerita, Hoff-Barthelson Music School, New York, USA
Professor Karin Greenhead
Professor of Music (Dalcroze Eurhythmics); Teacher of Dalcroze Eurhythmics; research supervisor, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK;
Director of Studies, Dalcroze UK;
Co-Director of the Dalcroze Eurhythmics International Examination Board (DEIEB)
Professor Marja-Leena Juntunen
Professor in Music Education, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland; Dalcroze Pedagogue.
Dr Luc Nijs
Associate Professor in Early Childhood Music Education and Head of the Bachelor in Music Education at the University of Luxembourg.
Visiting Professor at Ghent University, affiliated with IPEM and the JONET Chair on Social Action and Music Making.
Rosalind Ridout
PhD student, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK
Professor Dr Andrea Sangiorgio
Professor of Elemental Music Education (EMP Elementare Musikpädagogik) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, Germany
Dr Stephen Neely
Milton and Cynthia Friedman Assistant Professor of Music, Director of the Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center, Director of Graduate Studies, Carnegie Mellon University School of Music, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Dr Eric Barnhill
Senior Research Engineer at iRhythm Technologies, Inc. Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Agata Trzepierczyńska
Media and Communications Officer
ICDS6 Organizing Committee
Dr Stephen Neely
Milton and Cynthia Friedman Assistant Professor of Music, Director of the Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center, Director of Graduate Studies, Carnegie Mellon University School of Music, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Lenny Young
Artist Lecturer in Solfege, Carnegie Mellon School of Music
Matthew Reeder
Master’s student in Flute Performance, Carnegie Mellon School of Music

The organisers of ICDS in 2013 (John Habron), 2015 (Angelika Hauser-Dellefant), 2017 (Louise Mathieu & Josée Vaillancourt) and 2019 (Anetta Pasternak).