Stephen Zdzinski has been in music education since his graduation from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory in 1982. His Graduate degrees are from Indiana University (MME & PhD) , and he has taught in public schools, Indiana University, the University of Maryland, the University of Toronto (Canada), Wayne State University, the University of South Carolina, and the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, where he is the graduate program director for music education. He has over 40 published articles, and has presented in the USA, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, England, Scotland, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Greece, Japan, & China. He has presented at the Special Learners and Research Commissions of ISME.