
COMMITTEES
Scientific Committee
Co-chair: 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
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Co-chair: Dr Eric Barnhill
Senior Research Engineer at iRhythm Technologies, Inc. Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Vice-Chair: Professor Liesl van der Merwe
Professor, School of Music and the Faculty of Humanities
North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
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Dr Ruth Alperson
Dean Emerita, Hoff-Barthelson Music School, New York, USA
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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)
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Dr John Habron-James
Head of Music, Health and WellbeingRoyal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK
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Professor Marja-Leena Juntunen
Professor in Music Education, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland; Dalcroze Pedagogue.
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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)
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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.
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Professor Dr Andrea Sangiorgio
Professor of Elemental Music Education (EMP Elementare Musikpädagogik) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, Germany
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Agata Trzepierczyńska
Media and Communications Officer
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The organisers of ICDS in 2013 (John Habron), 2015 (Angelika Hauser-Dellefant), 2017 (Louise Mathieu & Josée Vaillancourt) and 2019 (Anetta Pasternak).