About the Director
David Myers
Director of the School
of Music
- 200 Ferguson Hall
- 612/626-1882
- E-mail: musicdir@umn.edu
David Myers, Professor and Director of the School of Music, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, is an internationally regarded proponent of innovation in higher music education. His interests in lifelong learning, community engagement, and social conscience among aspiring musicians led him to found the Center for Educational Partnerships and its groundbreaking Sound Learning partnership among Georgia State University, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, community musicians, and inner-city schools. A former public school teacher and accomplished organist, he is the American consultant for a joint Master of Music degree among five European conservatories. He has served as panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and keynoted numerous meetings, including the League of American Orchestras national convention and the International Research in Music Education Conference at the University of Exeter (UK). He has published, presented, and consulted widely, including work with the National Association of Schools of Music, the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, Opera America, the Music Educators National Conference, the College Music Society, and the International Society for Music Education. He currently serves on the editorial committees of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and the International Journal of Community Music. His 1996 research for NEA, Beyond Tradition: Partnerships Among Orchestras, Schools, and Communities, remains a seminal publication in the field. Dr. Myers’s work has been recognized by the Atlanta Partners in Education and in Harvard Project Zero’s study, Qualities of Quality. He received both the junior and senior outstanding faculty awards from the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University, as well as the 2008 Distinguished Career Award from the Georgia Music Educators Association. As an evaluator, he has conducted research for the League of American Orchestras on the Orchestra Leadership Academy, the Institutional Vision Program, the Ford Made in America program, and the American Conducting Fellows Program. In addition to NEA, he has been funded by the Texaco Foundation, the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, and the Cousins Foundation.
Dr. Myers has been a professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and in 1993 was a visiting professor in the Sydney (AUS) Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. He holds degrees from Lebanon Valley College, the Eastman School of Music, and The University of Michigan.
Last modified on July 2, 2007