Brenda Brenner was assistant professor of music (violin) at Indiana University from 1993 to 2006, when she was named associate professor of music (music education). She specializes in string music education, teaching applied violin, as well as courses in violin and string pedagogy.   Biography >>

Brent Gault has taught elementary and early childhood music courses in Texas, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.   Biography >>

As a teacher of graduate courses in the foundations of music education, Estelle Jorgensen also serves as editor for Philosophy of Music Education Review, and is the founding chair of Philosophy SRIG of MENC. She is the author of In Search of Music Education (University of Illinois Press, 1997), Transforming Music Education (Indiana University Press, 2003), and frequent contributor to leading research journals in music education internationally.   Biography >>

Lissa Fleming May teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music education, and places and supervises music student-teachers.   Biography >>

Michael Schwartzkopf is a member of the Alliance of Distinguished Rank Professors and has a joint appointment in the choral conducting and music education departments in the School of Music; he also serves as director and conductor for the IU Singing Hoosiers.   Biography >>

A faculty member of the summer Virginia Governor's School for the Humanities and Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Richmond, Katherine Strand taught for many years in public schools in Virginia and Chicago before teaching at the collegiate level.   Biography >>

As a specialist in choral music education and vocal jazz, Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman is a former faculty member and music education department chair at the University of Southern California, and a former faculty member and conductor of choral ensembles at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne.   Biography >>