David J. Elliott is Professor of Music and Music Education at New York University. Prior to joining NYU in 2002, he was Professor of Music Education at the University of Toronto for twenty-eight years. He has also held visiting professorships at Northwestern University, the University of North Texas, Indiana University, the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (University of Limerick). He is the author of Music Matters: A New Philosophy of Music Education, editor of Praxial Music Education, co-editor of Community Music Today, and author of numerous journal articles and invited book chapters, including recent chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Music Education, The Oxford Handbook of Music Education, Music Education, and Music, Health, and Wellbeing. He has given more than 300 keynote papers and university lectures in 40 countries and 239 cities. He is the editor of Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, and an award-winning composer/arranger with several works published by Boosey & Hawkes/Hal Leonard.