Brydie-Leigh Bartleet,
editor
Brydie-Leigh Bartleet is a professor and director of the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre and deputy director (Research) at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Australia. She has worked on a range of national and international projects in community music, arts-based service learning with Australian First Peoples, intercultural community arts, and arts programmes in prison. Many of these projects have been realized in partnership with a wide range of NGOs, arts and community organizations, and colleagues across Australia and the Asia Pacific. She has worked on four successive ARC Linkage projects, led a major OLT Innovation and Development project, secured over a millions dollars in research funding, and produced well over a 100 research outputs. In 2014 she was awarded the Australian University Teacher of the Year. She served as co-chair of the International Society for Music Education’s Community Music Activities Commission, co-founder of the Asia Pacific Community Music Network, and serves on the Board of Australia’s peak music advocacy body, Music Australia. She also serves on range of international and national boards including the International Journal of Music Education—Practice, and the International Journal of Community Music to mention a few. As a community music facilitator she has conducted bands, orchestras, choirs, and jazz ensembles from Australia, Thailand, Singapore, and Taiwan.
Lee Higgins,
editor
Lee Higgins is Professor and Director of the International Centre of Community Music based at York St John University, UK. He previously has held positions at Boston University, USA; Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, UK; and the University of Limerick, Ireland. Lee has been a visiting professor at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany, and Westminster Choir College, Princeton, USA. He received his PhD from the Irish Academy of Music and Dance, Ireland, and was the President of the International Society of Music Education (2016–2018). As a community musician he has worked across the education sector as well as within health settings, prison and probation service, youth and community, adult education, and arts organizations such as orchestras and dance. As a presenter and guest speaker, Lee has worked on four continents in university, school, and NGO settings. He is the senior editor for the International Journal of Community Music and was author of Community Music: In ↵Theory and in Practice (Oxford University Press, 2012) and co-author of Engagement in Community Music (Routledge, 2017).
