U of M School of Music Faculty Cohost Music Education Forum on Jamaica's National Curriculum of Music

The University of Minnesota School of Music and Winona State University hosted a forum on music education to establish a collaborative strategy for the review and implementation of Jamaica's National Curriculum of Music. Seven delegates from Jamaica attended the conference in October 2017, organized in collaboration with the Organization for Strategy Development in Jamaica (OSDJ), a registered 501(c)(3) organization in Minnesota. U of M School of Music collaborators were Paul Shaw (piano), Professor Emeritus Alan Kagan (ethnomusicology), Akosua Obuo Addo (music education), Scott Currie (creative studies and media), as well as Dr. Catherine Schmidt (Winona State University, Winona, MN), Marlon Williams (Ministry of Education, Youth and Information), and Wayland Richards (executive director, Organization for Strategic Development). The final concert featured Paul Shaw, Dan Musselman (PhD, 2015, composition) and the U of M School of Music World Music Ensemble under the direction of Scott Currie.