Richard D. Edwards

Originally from Willoughby, Ohio, Richard Edwards currently serves as assistant professor at Ithaca College teaching instrumental music education courses and conducting the All Campus Band.  He completed the Ph.D. in Music Education at UNC Greensboro (2008), the Master of Music in Music Education at UNC Greensboro (2002) and received the Bachelor of Music degree from Ohio University (1996).  His research interests include neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and the pedagogy of music education.  Dr. Edwards has taught for six years in the public schools of Ohio and North Carolina as both a high school band director and an elementary music teacher, and as an undergraduate, he served as the field commander for “The Ohio University Marching 110".  He is a member of MENC, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Pi Kappa Lambda, The College Band Director’s National Association, and the Society for Music Perception and Cognition.

The Musical Brain Imaging Research Database (MusicBIRD) was originally created as a component of my UNC Greensboro Ph.D. dissertation titled, “The Neurosciences and Music Education: An Online Database of Musical Brain Imaging Research” (2008).  The MusicBIRD is intended to serve as a resource for anyone interested in the field of neuromusical research (i.e., the study of brain processes associated with musical experiences) and its primary objective is to organize neuromusical research by presenting summative information from all peer-reviewed musical brain imaging studies.