The panel consists of:

Professor John Wallace CBE is Principal of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He is also Chair of Conservatoires UK and a member of the Association of European Conservatoires Council. John Wallace was born in Scotland, attended Buckhaven High School in Fife and Kings College Cambridge. In professional life he became a member of the London Symphony Orchestra trumpet section and later, from 1976 to 1995, Principal Trumpet of the Philharmonia. He formed his own brass ensemble, the Wallace Collection, in 1986. Diverse composers including James Macmillan and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies wrote him concertos. He co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments (CUP) with Trevor Herbert. Earlier this year a new book, The Trumpet, co-written with Alexander McGrattan, was published by Yale University Press.

 

Dr. David J. Elliott is Professor of Music and Music Education at New York University. Before joining NYU in 2002, he was Professor of Music Education at the University of Toronto for twenty-five years. He has also served as a Visiting Professor of Music Education at Northwestern University, the University of North Texas, Indiana University, the University of Cape Town, and the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music. He is the author of Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education; editor of Praxial Music Education: Reflections and Dialogues; author of numerous journal articles and book chapters; founder/editor of the International Journal of Community Music; and editor of Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education.

 

Anya Peterson Royce is a Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and of Comparative Literature at Indiana University and holds adjunct appointments in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Comparative Literature, Philanthropic Studies, Folklore and Ethnomusicology. She writes and teaches in the areas of US ethnic diversity, the anthropology of dance and the performing arts, ethnicity and the ethnography of Mexico, particularly its indigenous peoples. In addition to holding several administrative appointments, she has published numerous books and scholarly articles. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Delmas Fellow, a Bogliasco Foundation Fellow, a member of the Commission of Scholars for Louisville’s Classic in Context and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. In her pursuit of the many possibilities offered in understanding people’s lives and their values, she has become widely acknowledged as one of the anthropological pioneers in the study of performing arts.

 

In the summer of 1967, Professor Peterson Royce began what would become many decades of commitment to understanding the culture of the Zapotec of the Isthmus of Juchitan, Mexico. By studying the transition of dance from village to theatre, she formed a deep understanding of the power of the celebration of music and dance as an insight into the identity and culture of the Zapotec. With the publication of her first book exploring the themes of ethnic and class identity among the Zapotec, she continued her field research in the areas of dance, ethnicity, nationalism, music and the role of the intellectual. These works, spanning forty years of ethnographic research, have been published worldwide in both Spanish and English. In 2004, Anya Peterson Royce published her seminal publication, Anthropology of the Performing Arts. This publication is a landmark text in situating performance, music, dance and drama within a global context. It questions approaches to performance that have been predicated exclusively on Western traditions and understandings. She was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Limerick in 2011.

 

Gustav Djpsjöbacka is Rector of the Sibelius Academy of Music. He studied at the Sibelius Academy (Maija Helasvuo), Prague (Jan Panenka) and Vienna (Hilde Langer-Rühl0, completing his piano diploma at the Sibelius Academy in 1977 and performing his piano debut in Helsinki in 1978. He played keyboards in the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1977 - 88. He studied Lied interpretation with Pentti Koskimies, Erik Werba and Irwin Gage and since 1988 has lectured in vocal interpretation at the Sibelius Academy. In 2005 he was awarded a Doctor of Music at the Sibelius Academy, creating and performing a critical edition on Toivo Kuula´s songs. He has collaborated with Finnish top singers in concerts in Finland, round Europe and in the Americas and made CD recordings of Schubert (with Tom Krause), Sibelius (Auvinen), Madetoja and Kilpinen songs for Finlandia, Ondine and Naxos. He was Head of the jury in the Maj Lind International Piano Competition in 2007 and member of several other international juries. He has written a guide on Finnish art songs “Istumme ilokivelle” and has edited several Finnish art song collections. In the 1990s, he was artistic director of the Joroinen Music Days and the Joensuu Festival. He is President of the Madetoja Foundation since 1997 and Vice president of the Finnish Yrjö Kilpinen Society since 1992. He has served as a member of several committees including the Finnish State Music Board (1992 - 97) and the Nordic Music Comittee (1997 - 2002) the Sibelius Society (2004 - present) the Board of the Finland Institute in Germany (2002- 04) and Japan (2005-2012). He is also a member of accreditation panels in several European conservatories. Martin Prchal is vice-principal at the Royal Conservatoire in the Hague, the Netherlands, with responsibilities for curriculum development, quality assurance, communication and international relations. Trained as a musician of Czech origin, he holds teaching and performance diplomas (violoncello) and a MA in musicology. In his previous position as Chief Executive of the European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), Martin Prchal developed a substantial expertise in EU project management through his involvement in several music projects in various EU programmes. His expertise on issues related to higher music education in Europe is internationally acknowledged.