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Bruce Carter
Assistant Professor, Music Education
Specialization: Instrumental Education - Strings
Music Education Division
B.A., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech); M.M. Composition, Peabody Conservatory; Ph.D. Northwestern University
Bruce Carter, Ph.D. (Northwestern University), is assistant professor of music education at the University of Maryland, College Park. Bruce teaches a variety of instrumental courses in addition to advising graduate research projects concerning string pedagogy, music composition, and social justice. Dr. Carter has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals investigating topics of creativity, urban education, and gender inequities.
Currently, he is completing a book titled "And That Is Why Women Do Not Compose:" Hearing the Voices of Young Women Composers which questions inequities confronting women composers. Within the past year, Bruce has presented at the International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education, the American Educational Research Association, and the American String Teachers Association, in addition to lectures at the Maryland Music Educators Conference.
Having taught string orchestra for seven years at multiple levels, Bruce has developed a number of research interests in string pedagogy. Recently, he began exploring issues of kinesthetic awareness and how the implementation of Dalcroze Eurhythmics into elementary and middle school strings programs benefits young string players. Additionally, he is exploring ways of cross-pollinating musical pedagogies to foster an inter-textual approach to musical development. He has served as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator in Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, Maryland and Virginia.
