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OMEA 2002 Conference:

Building Community Through Music
January 25-27, 2002

Clifford K. Madsen portraitClifford K. Madsen
Keynote Speaker

Clifford K. Madsen is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor in the Center for Music Research, School of Music at Florida State University. He was appointed to the FSU faculty in 1961 as a trumpet instructor and worked regularly with all of the university bands. He now teaches in the areas of music education, music therapy, research and psychology of music; since 1977 he has been Coordinator of Music Education/Music Therapy/Contemporary Media. He is the first recipient of both the Senior Researcher Award granted by MENC and the Award of Merit, the National Association for Music Therapy's highest recognition. He is past chair of the Music Education Research Council (MENC) and is a past Editorial Board member of the Journal of Music Therapy, Psychology of Music, Journal of Band Research and The Quarterly: Journal of Music Teaching and Learning. Presently he serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Research in Music Education, International Journal of Arts Medicine, and Council for Research in Music Education. He has authored or co-authored 130 research articles and 13 books. His latest edited book is Vision 20/20: The Housewright Symposium, MENC. His most recent research deals with teacher education, classroom management, and empirical measurement of ongoing responses to music.