COMMITTEES

Scientific Committee 

Chair: Dr John Habron 
Head of Music Education
Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK

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Vice-Chair: Professor Louise Mathieu (retired)
Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
Director of Studies, Dalcroze Canada; 
Co-Director of the Dalcroze Eurhythmics International Examination Board (DEIEB)

Secretary: Dr Andrew Goldman

Visiting Assistant Professor (Music Theory), Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
 

Dr Ruth Alperson
Dean Emerita, Hoff-Barthelson Music School, New York, USA

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Dr Eric Barnhill

Research Engineer, iRhythm Technologies, San Francisco, USA

Dr Karin Greenhead
Tutor in Dalcroze Eurhythmics, 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
Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland 

Dr Johanna Laakkonen 
Lecturer in Theatre Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

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Dr Stephen Neely

Assistant Professor of Dalcroze Eurhythmics and Director, Marta Sanchez Dalcroze Training Center, School of Music Pre-College Programs, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

Dr Luc Nijs
Postdoc, IPEM, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
PhD student, CORPoREAL, Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Belgium

Dr Andrea Schiavio
Principal Investigator, Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria

Dr Liesl van der Merwe 
Associate Professor, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa

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