MUSSE

Professor McPherson

After an international recruitment process, internationally renowned music educator, Professor Gary McPherson, has been appointed to the Ormond Chair of Music in the University of Melbourne, starting on 1 July 2009.

Professor McPherson will also be Head of the University’s School of Music within the University’s new Faculty of the VCA and Music.

Beginning his professional music career as a trumpeter, Professor McPherson now holds the Marilyn Plederer Zimmerman endowed Chair in the School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a position he took up in 2005. He was previously Professor and Head of the Department of Creative Arts at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, after 15 years in the School of Music and Music Education at the University of New South Wales.

Professor McPherson has been President of the International Society for Music Education and has provided advice as a consultant to the Australian Music Examinations Board.

On 6 April 2009, the University’s two music teaching and research arms – the Faculty of Music and the Victorian College of the Arts School of Music – will come together in a single School of Music within the new Faculty of the VCA and Music. The new School will have a strong identity and a clear vision for international excellence in music training, education, scholarship and research.