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The Steering Committee of the 2nd International Society for Music Education (ISME) South Asia Regional Conference welcomes you and looks forward to your participation in Nepal from November 4-6th, 2019

The conference is organised by by the Nepal Music Center and is themed ‘Music teacher learning and life in the 21st century’.

Conference registration open on Monday September 2nd, 2019

Conference Host - Nepal Music Centre

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​Nepal Music Center is a music and culture led non-profit organization with a mission to promote formal music education, preserve the intangible heritage, promotion of talent and the promotion of music and dances of various ethnic groups of Nepal at the National and international levels.
www.nepalmusiccenter.com

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Keynotes

​Susan O’Neill is Professor and Dean of Education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. She is President of the International Society for Music Education (ISME). Susan has been awarded visiting fellowships at the University of Michigan, University of Melbourne, and Trinity College Dublin. She has published widely in the fields of music psychology and music education, including contributions to 15 books published by Oxford University Press. She has been awarded major grants for international collaborative research, and has developed intercultural programs and an award winning intergenerational arts program. Her current research examines young people’s engagement with creative technologies, creative and collaborative approaches to music learning, and the social impact of music on young people’s lives.

Bangalore based writer/historian, Dr. Vikram Sampath is the best-selling author of three acclaimed books: Splendours of Royal Mysore: the Untold Story of the Wodeyars on the Mysore royal family; "My Name Is Gauhar Jaan: The Life and Times of a Musician"- the biography of India's first recording superstar Gauhar Jaan of Calcutta and "Voice of the Veena: S Balachander - A Biography" the story of eminent veena maestro late Dr. S Balachander. Vikram was awarded the Sahitya Akademi's first Yuva Puraskar in English literature in 2012 and the ARSC International Award for Excellence in Historical research in New York in 2011 for his book on Gauhar Jaan. The book has also been translated into Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Punjabi; adapted to theatre as a play "Gauhar" by Lillette Dubey and is now slated to be adapted to a Bollywood film by Ashutosh Gowariker. Vikram was among the 4 writers and artists to be selected by the Former Honourable President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee as a Writer-in-Residence. His forthcoming project is a two-part biography of the renowned freedom fighter Veer Savarkar. 

Conference Steering Committee

The Conference steering committee is being led by Santosh Sharma the conference host from the Nepal Music Centre.
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Committee members are:
Iman Bikram Shah (Nepal Music Centre program co-chair and ISME member)
Balkrishna Ranjit (Nepal Music Centre)
Shiva Lal Bhusal (Tribhuvan University)
Danielle Treacy (University of the Arts Helsinki, program co-chair)
Heidi Westerlund (ISME Board member)
Margaret Barrett (ISME and SEMPRE)
Graham Welch (SEMPRE and ISME)
Vikram Sampath (ISME India)

​Scientific Committee

​Chair: Danielle Treacy
Members: Iman Bikram Shah, Vikram Sampath, Sandra Oberoi, Suvarnalata Rao, Graham Welch, Margaret Barrett, Heidi Westerlund

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