Keynote Speakers
Tadahiro Murao
Prof. Tadahiro Murao
My Happy Memories of APSMER
It was at ISME Research Commission Seminar held in Nagoya, Japan, in 1992, I met Gary McPherson first time. Being so young like a student though, I thought, he was a really nice guy to talk with.
The second time I met him was at the ISME World Conference 1994 in Tampa. There, I proposed to launch the Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research. He agreed with this idea but said we needed one more person from the Asian region as an organizer.
Luckily, we found the best person from Korea. That was Hong-Soo Lee.
Joining with him, we three have decided to hold the APSMER every other year. The first APSMER was held in Seoul, in 1997. Since then, the 2nd one was in Tasmania, the 3rd was in Nagoya, and this time, the 14th APSMER is held again in Seoul. I have a lot of happy memories of APSMER, which are deeply emotive.
- Master of Arts, Tokyo University of Arts (1971).
- Studying cognitive musicology as an exchange scholar at Pennsylvania University (1982-1983).
- Teaching and doing research at Aichi University Education (1971-2009) and Tezukayama University (2009-2018).
- President of Japan Society of Music Education Research (2001-2004).
- Chair of ISME Research Commission (1998-2000).
- Board member of ISME (2000-2004).
- Organizing chair of the 3rd APSMER, Nagoya, 2001.
- Email: 917murqo@gmail.com