Lisa Lehmberg
Music Education Department
Lisa Lehmberg is Professor of Music Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research on older adult music participation and quality of life is published in the books Music, Senior Centers, and Quality of Life (2023, Cambridge University Press), Meanings of Music Participation: Scenarios from the United States (2022, Routledge), and Music for Life: Music Participation and Quality of Life of Senior Citizens (2016, Oxford University Press; 2021 in Chinese translation, Shanghai Educational Publishing House). At the undergraduate level, Lisa teaches elementary general music methods and co-facilitates a student teacher seminar. At the graduate level she teaches courses in music education research, music and lifelong learning, and global perspectives in music education. As an Instructional Innovation Fellow, Lisa looks forward to the opportunity to teach and learn with the other IIFs and also share strategies she uses in her teaching, such as a human library course design and a means of music composition via body movement through the use of wristband sensors, a midi controller, and a digital audio workstation.