Rose (PhD (Maseno); MMus (Kenyatta), BA (Pretoria) is Associate Professor of Music and head of the Department of Music and Theatre Studies at Maseno University in Kenya. She has presented papers at Research Commission and the ISME World conferences since joining ISME in 2003. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in musicology, performance, music education and ethnomusicology for over 20 years. Her research focuses on, recontextualisation of indigenous music for contemporary classroom practices. She has published 18 articles in referred journals. She is an editor of the IJME Research, Problems in Music Pedagogy (Lavia), African Musicology. She is the president of African Musicology On-line, immediate former Vice President of PASMAE. Member: Kenya Association of Musical Arts Education (KAMAE) and Executive committee member -African Musics Study Group, an affiliate of International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM); International steering committee member of International Symposium on Assessment in Music Education (ISAME 5).