The Planning Committee—Members of the Symposium

Dr. David G. Hebert is an Assistant Professor with the Boston University School of Music. An instrumental music educator and ethnomusicologist, he has taught music for Seattle Public Schools, as well as internationally for Moscow State University, Tokyo Gakugei University, and Te Wananga O Aotearoa.

Dr. Hebert’s cross-cultural research interests include creativity, transculturation, competition, and policy in music education. He has been awarded grants from the Simpson Humanities Center, National Band Association, Japan Ministry of Education, Arts Council of New Zealand, and United States Department of Education.

Dr. Hebert contributed lesson plans to the Silver Burdett Making Music school textbook series and has published music research in ten different peer-reviewed scholarly journals. His PhD dissertation, under Patricia Shehan Campbell at University of Washington, was the first study to identify the world’s largest music competition and to describe the experience of its contestants: adolescent musicians in Japanese wind bands. It provided material for forthcoming books in Japanese and English. Other recent projects include the first studies of Maori brass bands (in press) and New Zealand Tongan brass bands (in revision), and the first international conference panel on patriotism in music education. Dr. Hebert serves on the Editorial Board of Research and Issues in Music Education and is Associate Editor of both International Journal of Education and the Arts and Research in New Zealand Performing Arts.

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