Posts from — June 2010

Dr Sheila Woodward from the University of Southern California is visiting Christchurch and is giving a multimedia presentation on Musical Interactions and Interventions with the Foetus, Neonate and Premature Infant.
This is an amazing opportunity to listen to an expert in the field. There will be time for questions.

CMPA members are all invited to the presentation which is on Thursday 22 July at 3pm at the Champion Centre. A $5 donation to the Champion Centre (on which you can claim tax back) is payable on the door.

Attendance will count towards CMPA Qualified Member 2011 status - of which more later…

About Dr Sheila C. Woodward:

 Dr. Sheila C. Woodward is Chair of Music Education at the University of Southern California, USA. She is a native of South Africa and earned her Ph. D. in Music Education from the University of Cape Town in 1993 and a Performer’s Licentiate in Organ from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (London). She previously taught at the University of South Florida, USA, and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Dr. Woodward has served on numerous professional boards in South Africa, in the USA and internationally; among them being two terms on the Board of Directors of ISME (2004 – 2008), three terms on the ISME Early Childhood Music Education Commission (1992 – 1998, two of those as Chair), and two terms on the Executive Board of the Society for General Music (MENC, USA). Dr. Woodward’s research focus is Music and Wellbeing. She explores this from before birth to adulthood, with studies on the fetus and neonate, the premature infant, the young child, the at-risk youth, the juvenile offender and the adult musician. She has published numerous articles, in addition to chapters in Elliott’s Praxial Music Education: Reflections and Dialogues (Oxford, 2005) and in Malloch and Trevarthen’s Communicative musicality: Narratives of expressive gesture and being human (Oxford, 2009). She has been awarded generous grants to promote international exchange programs in which South African musicians visit the USA to work and perform alongside American students and professors, and she has directed numerous outreach programs in both countries 

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