Professor Gary McPherson
The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong SAR
Professor Gary McPherson completed his undergraduate training in music education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before gaining a Licentiate (L.T.C.L) and Fellowship (F.T.C.L.) in trumpet performance from Trinity College, London, a Master of Music Education at Indiana University and a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. Gary is a former National President of the Australian Society for Music Education and in August 2002 he became President Elect of the International Society for Music Education.
Gary is currently the editor of Research Studies in Music Education, and is on the editorial advisory boards for most journals in the discipline, including the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Psychology of Music, Music Education Research, the British Journal of Music Education, the Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education, the Journal of Research in Music Education. He has published numerous articles in journals such as Psychology of Music, The Quarterly, Council for Research in Music Education, Canadian Music Educator, Journal of Research in Music Education, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Fanfare, Arts Education Policy Review, Music Education Research, Forum of Education and the Australian Journal of Music Education, and a number of book chapters. His 2002 publications include a co-authored chapter on self-regulation for the Colwell/Richardson's New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning and a book for Oxford University Press which he co-edited entitled The Science and Psychology of Music Performance: Creative Strategies for Teaching and Learning.
Gary receives numerous invitations to give guest lectures on various aspects of music education throughout the world and over the past five years he has taught in Germany, England, Sweden, Korea, Japan, Italy, Canada, Spain and the United States. He has also been a visiting professor in music at universities in Sweden, the United States and England and delivered 14 keynote addresses at national and international conferences. In 1996 he received the first ever Large Australian Research Council grant for a study in music education to undertake a three-year longitudinal study with children learning instruments in primary school instrumental programs, and this was followed in 2000 by a second Large ARC grant to study children's motivation to study music.