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YUKIKO TSUBONOU
Professor
Kaichi International University

Dept. of Education
Kaichi International University
E-mail:tsubonou@fc.jwu.ac.jp
1225-6 Kashiwa Kashiwa-City
277-0005 Chiba, Japan

 

Education

Tokyo University of Arts, Department of Musicology, 1971

 

Employment

Professor, Kaichi International University, 2017 – present
Professor, Japan Women’s University, 2003 – 2017
Professor, Kochi University, 1997 – 2003
Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of Arts, 1990 – 2016
Visiting Professor, Kyoto University of Arts, 2002 – 2014
Visiting Professor, Senzoku-Gakuen Music Collage, 2004 – 2014
Visiting Professor, Tokyo University, 2019 –

 

Selected Social Activities

Director, Institute of Creativity in Music Education, 1990 – present
Chief Editor, The International Journal of Creativity in Music Education,2013 – present
Chief Editor, The Journal of Music Lesson Study, 2017
Chairperson, Committee of International Exchange in Japan Music Education Society(JMES), 2018 – 2019
Executive Board Member, JMES, 2015 – present
Member and Judge, Committee for the Best Research Award, JMES,2008 – 2016
President, JMES,2005 – 2008
Member, Special Section Committee of Art Education in the Section of Curriculum, the Central Education Council in Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology in Japan(MEXT), 2005 – 2007
Member, Editorial Committee for Japanese Government Curriculum Guidelines in MEXT, 2006 – 2008
Senior Specialist, Audiovisual Support, in MEXT,2007 – present
Designated administrator, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 2007 – 2009

 

Conferences, Festivals and Workshops organized

Organizer, the Summer Workshop Series of Creating Music, Institute of Creativity in Music Education, Tokyo, Japan, 2005 – present
Chief Organizer, 15thSummer Seminar ofJMES, at University of the Sacred Heart, 4th&5thAugust 2018
Project Research Organizer, General Conference of JMES, 2017–present, Research title:Music Education as a Bridge Between Schools and Society Co-organizer, the 14thSummer Seminar of JMES, at Japan Women’s University(JWU), Tokyo, Japan,2016

Co-organizer, the 4th International Creativity Conference: Reforming Creativity for the Needs of the Present and the Future, at JWU, Tokyo 14th& 15thJune 2014.

Organizer, the 1stSummer Workshop of JMES, at JWU, Tokyo, Japan, 2003

Music Director, “Children’s Future 2001”, International Society for Contemporary Music, at Minato-Mirai Hall, Yokohama, Japan, November 2001

Music Director, “Music Festival for Youngsters”, Koshigaya Community Centre, Koshigaya, Japan,1998

Music Director, “Creating Music with Musicians from London Sinfonietta”, Koshigaya Community Centre, Koshigaya, Japan,1996

Music Director, “Dougaku II with Musicians from London Sinfonietta”, Japanese Society for Contemporary Music, at Maison franco japonaise, Tokyo, Japan, 1994

Music Director, “Dougaku I” at Tokyo Contemporary Music Festival, Japanese Society for Contemporary Music, at Suntory Hall Tokyo, Japan,1991

 

Selected Presentations & Symposiums at Scientific Conferences (English)

Koma,K, Ajifu,M, Tsubonou,Y. (2018). Investigation of Activity Space in Collective Musica Expression of Young Children, OMEP World Assembly and Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.

Tsubonou,Y. (2014).Exploring Creative Music Activities based on Asian Music and Instruments Looking at the Universality, Specialty and Commonality of music, Keynote Address at the 4thInternational Creativity Conference: Reforming Creativity for the Needs of the Present and the Future, Tokyo, Japan.

Tsubonou,Y. (2011) Music Teacher Training in Villages and Minority Areas, Keynote Address at International Symposium of Northeast Asian Music Teacher Training, Harbin, China

Tsubonou,Y., Ino,Y., Kuon.T., Kou, S. (2008). Theory and practice in Japanese and Korean Music Education, Symposium at the first Japan-Korea Music Education Seminar, Tokyo, Japan

Tsubonou,Y. (2007). Surveying the Revision of the Music Course of Study in Japan 2007, Keynote Address, at Seoul International Symposium, Korea Music Educators Society, Seoul, Korea

Tsubonou,Y., Ei,Ki., Kurosawa, S., Cawkwell, Y. H., (2001). Development of the Creative Art Activities      in School and Social Education, Symposium at Children’s Future 2001, International Society   for Contemporary music, Yokohama, Japan

Tsubonou,Y.,(2000). Asian Local or Fused Global? Research and Practice in Asian Music Education, Lecture presented at International Society for Music Education, Edmonton,Canada

Tsubonou,Y. (1996). Music Textbook and the Media Policy in Japan, Policy Concerns with Media Influences on Music Listening: International Society for Music Education, Koeln

Tsubonou,Y. (1990). Observation on the Importance of a Sociological Perspective for Music Education. Sharing Musics of the World: International Society for Music Education, Seoul

 

Selected Workshops (English)

Tsubonou, Y. (2016). How to Utilize the Simple Philippine Bamboo Instrument in Our School Education, International Society for Music Education, Glasgow, Britain, July

Tsubonou, Y. (2012). Ajifu, M., Koma, K., Furuyama, R., Exploring Creative Activities Based on Repetition: From the Non Western Music to Reich and from Reich to World Music, International Society for Music Education, Thessaloniki, Greece

Tsubonou, Y., Ajifu. M., Koma, K., Bae, M. (2008). Enjoying Call & Response Based on Children’s Songs and Traditional Music in Korea and Japan. Workshop at the 1stJapan-Korea Seminar: Tokyo Japan

Tsubonou, Y. (2007). Exploring Creative Activities Based on the Musical Structure “Repetition” and “Call & Response”: Workshop at the 6thAsia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research, Bangkok, Thailand

Tsubonou, Y. (2006). Exploring Creative Music Activities in Early Childhood, Through Enjoying Musical Games, Transcending Modernity Early Education and Care, 4thKSECE International Conference, The Korean Society for Early Childhood Education, Seoul, Korea

Tsubonou, Y.(2001).Japanese Instruments Workshop for Composers. Workshop at Children’s Future 2001, International Society for Contemporary Music, Yokohama, Japan

Tsubonou, Y.(2001). Playing Traditional Pattern Sarashi and Creating New Music, 3rd Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research, Nagoya Japan

 

Selected Papers and Books(English)

Hagiwara, S., Sawada, M., Tsubonou, Y.(2016). Creative Activity and the Poem “The Chorus of Autonomous Frogs” by Sinpei Kusano, Journal of Creative Activity in Music Education vol.4, Tokyo: Institute of Creativity in Music Education.

Tsubonou, Y.(2015). “Convention for Okarinas” A Musical Piece or a Workshop Plan? Journal of Creative Activity in Music Education vol.3, Tokyo: Institute of Creativity in Music Education.

Tsubonou,Y.(2013). Creating New Music Based on Traditional Japanese Musical Pattern “Sarashi”, Journal of Creative Activity in Music Education vol.1, Tokyo: Institute of Creativity in Music Education.

Tsubonou,Y.(2013). Tongatong is Fun for All of Us, Journal of Creative Activity in Music Education vol.1, Tokyo: Institute of Creativity in Music Education.

Tsubonou, Y., Hosokawa,S., Matsumura. H., Ogawa. H., Murata. K., Kitagawa. J., Kimura. A., Mitui. T. Nakagawa.N., (1991). A Guite to Popular Music in Japan, IASPM-Japan,Tokyo