ISME 2010 Beijing

ISME 2010 welcomed around 4,000 delegates who represented 63 countries.

There were over 800 presentations by 773 presenters (including Symposia, Papers, Workshops, Posters and Class Lesson Demonstrations)

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Welcome to the ISME President , Graham Welch, UK who took office from August 2010.

Welcome to the ISME newly elected President Elect, Margaret Barrett, Australia.

Thanks to Håkan Lundström, Sweden for his leadership and work as President. He continues on the ISME Board as Immediate Past President.

Those elected to serve are as follows:

Emily Akuno, Kenya

Lee Higgins, UK/USA

Hiromichi Mito, Japan

Theodora Stathopoulos, Greece/Canada

Gudrun Schmidt-Kärner, Germany

Ramona Tahir, Malaysia

Jiaxing Xie, China

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At the Plenary Session on Thursday 5th August two recipients received the ISME-Gibson 2010 Awards.

Professor Jiaxing Xie received one of the Awards for the project Teaching children to sing songs of the home area  which is aimed at minority children in Guangxi in the western part of China where the loss of traditional music is very serious. The aim is to restore the local musical traditions by training and promoting local folk singing of music teachers in the area so that more children will be able to learn their musical heritage.

The second Award went to Mr Bin Wu, Vice chair of the Chinese Society for Music Education (CSME), for the project Music education in Chinese schools with special focus on the Western regions, which deals with the situation of music education in the Western part of China where there are certain minority groups. The aim is to provide the music teachers and children there with information, teacher training and teaching materials. Thousands of children are estimated to benefit from this project.