Dr Andrea Creech is Professor of Instrumentale Didactique at the Faculty of Music, Université Laval, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in music in community Following an international orchestral and teaching career Andrea was awarded a PhD in Psychology in Education from the Institute of Education, University of London.  Until 2016 Andrea was Reader in Education at University College London, Institute of Education, where she led several funded research projects relating to musical development and engagement in the arts across the lifespan, including the Music for Life Project, funded by the UK Research Councils and winner of the Royal Society for Public Health’s award for research in Arts and Health, 2014. Andrea has carried out funded evaluations for several arts organisations, including Glyndebourne Education, LSO Discovery, Voices Foundation, Sistema Global, EMI Music Sound Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Musical Futures, Youth Music and the National Youth Jazz Collective.

 

Andrea has presented at international conferences and published widely on topics concerned with musical development and lifelong learning and participation in the arts. She is a past Executive Board member of the International Society for Music Education, External Examiner for the Royal Academy of Dance, Visiting Lecturer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and Graduate Member of the British Psychological Association.  Andrea is author of Active Ageing with Music and co-editor of Music Education in the 21st Century in the UK.