David G. Hebert

David G. Hebert (Professor, Sibelius Academy) is an instrumental music educator and ethnomusicologist who has taught for Seattle Public Schools as well as colleges and universities in Russia, Japan, New Zealand, Finland, and the USA. Based at the Sibelius Academy in Northern Europe, he is Academic Coordinator of the Master of Global Music degree program, between higher education music academies in Finland, Denmark, and Sweden. With cross-cultural scholarly interests that include musical creativity, transculturation/hybridity, online learning, popular music, competition, and musical identity, he serves in editorial roles for refereed journals such as International Journal of Education and the Arts, Research and Issues in Music Education, Finnish Journal of Music Education, Journal of Music and Meaning, Musical Perspectives, and Research in New Zealand Performing Arts. Dr. Hebert is author of Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools (forthcoming, Springer), and co-editor/contributing author of a book manuscript entitled Patriotism and Nationalism in Music Education. Other recent projects include research studies on Maori brass bands, New Zealand Tongan bands, and management of online music education programs. He has received grants from Simpson Humanities Center, National Band Association, Japan Ministry of Education, Arts Council of New Zealand, Japan National Institutes for the Humanities, and the United States Department of Education.

Professor Hebert is probably the most widely published and cited music researcher under age 40, with writings in more than 15 different scholarly journals and 10 books. His music research is published in the following refereed journals: -Journal of Research in Music Education -International Journal of Music Education -Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education -Journal of Band Research -Research in New Zealand Performing Arts -International Journal of Education and the Arts -Contributions to Music Education -Japanese Journal of Music Education Research -Japanese Band Directors Association Journal -Journal of the Indian Musicological Society -Research and Issues in Music Education -International Journal of Community Music -International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music -Parlando -Visions of Research in Music Education -Finnish Journal of Music Education (forthcoming). 

Dr. Hebert developed lesson plans in Silver Burdett's bestselling American school textbook series Making Music (2002) and has chapters in the following books and symposium proceedings: -Oxford Handbook of Music Education (forthcoming) -Sociology and Music Education (in press, 2010) -Music Education for a Changing Society: Guiding Visions for Practice (2009) -De-Canonizing Music History (2009) -Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, Vol. 1 (2010) -Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, Vol. 2 (2010) -Cultural Diversity in Music Education IX (2008) -Music of Japan Today (2008) -Alta Musica (2008) -Proceedings of the Fifth Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research (2005) -Music Education in the Asia-Pacific Region (2004) -The Ethnomusicologist's Cookbook (2006).

Professor Hebert's research is cited in over 60 publications by other scholars. In 2009, lectures and professional activities took him to more than 10 countries, and he mentored 5 students to completion of their Doctoral degres in music (at Sibelius Academy and Boston University). In addition to being an instrumental conductor, he is active as a jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and songwriter, and recently presented brass workshops with ethnomusicologist Charles Keil, conducted the All-State Honor Band of Connecticut Independent Schools, and recorded a jazz CD at Tokyo JVC Studios with vocalist Midori Takamura and jazz pianist Johnny Todd.

Dr Hebert previously worked in New Zealand as Head of Music for Te Wananga O Aotearoa while it was the nation's largest tertiary institution. A trumpeter, he is also a founding member of Auckland's Wonderbrass, and served as conductor for the Auckland Wind Orchestra. Prior to his current position in Europe at Sibelius Academy, Professor Hebert worked in the USA for Boston University, where he directed Doctoral dissertations and taught graduate courses in research methods, psychology/sociology of music education, and an ethnomusicology seminar. He continues to direct Doctoral dissertations for Boston University as an online Master Lecturer. He will be returning to New Zealand soon for various music projects. His research interests in New Zealand include: (1) Music curriculum, (2) Brass bands, (3) Maori and Pacific Islander songwriters, and (4) Music education policy.

Please see the following websites for further information:

http://sociomusicology.blogspot.com

www.bu.edu/tanglewoodtwo/committee/herbert/index.html

www.linkedin.com/in/davidhebertphd

http://bostonhybridmusics.blogspot.com/