This month
I have been visiting Hong Kong as Honorary Professor with the Education
University of Hong Kong. This visit was made possible through the Global
Competence Partnership project, and my main objective is to plan further
exchange between our institutions, especially at the doctoral and postgraduate
levels.
Here I have especially been collaborating with Koji Matsunobu, who now leads the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts at EdUHK, and I have participated in his postdoctoral research group meeting (with Lexuan Zhang, Luna Ning Luo and Robbie Ming Hon Ho) and the doctoral seminar (coordinated by Lexuan) as well as a doctoral qualifying examination for Kay Li Wing Ki.
This has also
been an excellent opportunity to meet with ISME President Bo-wah Leung and
other colleagues here such as composer and music technologist Michael Chi Hin
Leung and music education researchers Yang Yang and Matthew Thibeault. I also
met with prolific music education historian Prof. Wai-Chung Ho (Hong Kong
Baptist University), who has produced several interesting books across the past
decade.
During my
time here, a delegation with students from Nara
University of Education came to visit, with a joint symposium and concert, and through that event I had a chance to meet with the Japan-based Chinese ethnomusicologist
Prof. Lin-Yu Liou.
It has also
been a great pleasure to get to know two fine young classical pianists, Dr.
Suzuki Keishi (Nara University of Education, Japan) and Dr. Philbert King Yue
Li (Education University of Hong Kong). Philbert has generously met with me to
sightread through some romantic art songs and I am looking into whether it may
be possible to plan a lecture-recital series for the next time I visit Hong
Kong.
Hong Kong
is certainly an exciting place for music education and related fields, and I
look forward to seeing what develops through our collaboration.
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