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Equity Diversity Inclusion and Decolonization Committee and the Canadian Music Centre’s Accountability for Change and Indigenous Advisory Councils. In 2019 he was awarded the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for his research on Indigenous culture which encompasses aspects of Cree storytelling, ceremony and song as inspiration for a new creative work. J. Alex Young feels to reflect a musical unity between his Indigenous Cree and Western heritage that a unity of self, community, land and spirit must be maintained. His compositions are combinatory sonic and narrative explorations of his personal connection to home, family, story and spirituality.
MUSIC EDUCATION AND THE NEXT GENERATION OF COMPOSERS AND PERFORMERS By Dr. Eric Favaro Dr. Eric Favaro is a passionate education advocate who has devoted his entire career to helping teachers gain a better understanding of the importance of an education in and through the arts. Trained as a music educator, he is respected nationally and internationally as an innovator for effective programs in Arts Education and is considered to be a leader in his field. In this article he writes about the future of music education and creation. When we reflect on the positive and negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on public school music programs, we realize that the recovery from limitations placed on group music-making will be challenging. After two years of uncertainty that included the “backand-forth” between in-person and virtual learning, restrictions on singing and playing wind instruments, and no large ensemble performances, finding the silver lining will be difficult for music educators as they attempt to recover some semblance of their pre-COVID programs. As someone who has just marked fifty years in music education, I tend to promote an optimistic view of the possibilities for reimagining and innovating
