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John Drummond
John Drummond, BA, BMus, Ph.D., is Blair Professor of Music at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He trained in the United Kingdom as a musicologist and composer specializing in opera. In the late 1980s he became involved in music education, joining the ISME Commission on Community Music Activity, which he chaired from 1990-92. He joined the ISME Board in 1995 and was elected president from 2000-02. From 2002-04 he was on the Steering Group for the International Music Council project on musical diversity, and has been a member of the Cultural Diversity in Music Education Network for many years. In 2008 John co-authored a report on Cultural Policy for the NZ Government, Culture Matters. He is currently engaged in a research project on the Future of Opera within the research programme Sustainable Futures for Musical Cultures.