COMMITTEES

Scientific Committee 

Chair: Dr John Habron-James
Head of Music, Health and Wellbeing
Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK

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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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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 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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Professor Marja-Leena Juntunen

Professor in Music Education, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland; Dalcroze Pedagogue.

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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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Rosalind Ridout

PhD student, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK

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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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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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Dr Eric Barnhill

Senior Research Engineer at iRhythm Technologies, Inc. Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

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Agata Trzepierczyńska

Media and Communications Officer

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ICDS6 Organizing Committee

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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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Lenny Young

Artist Lecturer in Solfege, Carnegie Mellon School of Music

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Matthew Reeder

Master’s student in Flute Performance, Carnegie Mellon School of Music

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