Innovating Music Education

INTRO video


TMEA Video

This keynote speech, delivered to the Texas Music Educators Association on February 15, 2019, is a companion to the NAFME article below. I illustrate the profusion of innovations that are reshaping music education and use the example of jazz to demonstrate the power of music to illuminate 21st century skills like creativity and empathy.


NAFME Article

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“Music, one of civil society’s most important cultural treasures, is undergoing radical, inevitable transformation...we live in a time in which the urgent need and the opportunity to innovate music teaching and to support young musicians have never been greater.

Read the full article here.

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