Academic & Teaching Staff
Dr Lo Khin Yee
Lecturer I
Music Performance, Contemporary Music Pedagogy, Cross-Cultural
Music Education, Ethnography
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Dr Lo Khin Yee
Lecturer I
Dr. Khin Yee Lo has lived, performed and taught in four continents. She received a Master of Music (MMus) in Performance from the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied both violin and piano, and Bachelor of Arts (Music) degree with First Class Honours from Bath Spa University. She was awarded the Chancellor’s Fellowship to pursue a Doctorate degree in music education at Indiana University, USA. There, she further won several scholarships and awards in recognition of her outstanding doctoral work. In Australia, she obtained the Graduate Certificate in Education from Griffith University.
Prior to joining full-time in the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts, the Education University of Hong Kong, Khin Yee was a Co-Programme Leader of MMus degree in Performance at the University of West London (Hong Kong Centre). She has also held teaching appointments at Indiana University (USA) and Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium of Music and the Young Conservatorium (Australia). Furthermore, she serves on international music examination boards such as the Australian Music Examinations Board and London College of Music Examinations.
Khin Yee has performed as soloist, accompanist, chamber and orchestra musician. She played in numerous orchestras which gave regular performances in such venues as the Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room, Barbican Centre and St. John Smith’s Square. Throughout her teaching career, she has also worked extensively with children in schools and has conducted numerous youth string ensembles and orchestras in England, the USA and Australia. She has taught at the prestigious Wells Cathedral School and The Purcell School of Music in England.
Khin Yee has presented her research at numerous international conferences in education and music education. Her publications include a co-authored book chapter in the Handbook of Child Well-Being: Theories, Methods and Policies in Global Perspective (Springer).
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DME (Indiana University, USA)
MMus (Royal Academy of Music, University of London, UK)
BA (Hons) (Bath Spa University, UK)
Grad Cert (Ed) (Griffith University, Australia)
Ad Dip (Royal Academy of Music, UK)
LRAM in Violin (Royal Academy of Music, UK)
LRAM in Piano (Royal Academy of Music, UK)
LTCL in Violin (Trinity College London, UK)
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Areas of Teaching
Music Performance
Music History and Theory
Contemporary Music Pedagogy
Music Psychology
Performance Research
Research Methods
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Research Interests
Cross-Cultural Music Education
String Education
Qualitative Research
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Selected Outputs
- Matsunobu, K., Davidson, R., & Lo, K. Y. (2023). The role of negative emotions in learning music: Qualitative understanding of Australian undergraduate students’ listening experience of unfamiliar music. British Journal of Music Education, 40(2), 204-219. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265051722000250
- Composer and Performer. Short documentaries, Being Brown: Poetic Narratives and Being Brown: Visual Narratives (2019). Screening at exhibition and panel discussion, titled Being Brown: South Asian Narratives of Brownness in South East Michigan, by Ram Mahalingam et al. Hatcher Library Gallery, Michigan, USA, 5 April – 5 May 2019. April 5 - May 5 at the Hatcher Library Gallery
- Composer and Performer. Short film, Silences (2018). Special Jury Prize at the 7th New Delhi International Short Film Festival (2018); Special screenings at Yala International Independent Film Festival, Nepal (2019), Indian World Film Festival (2019), New Delhi International Short Film Festival (2018), and Genre Celebration Film Festival, Tokyo (2018).
- Matsunobu, K., Davidson, R., & Lo, K. Y. (2015, July). Overcoming negative emotions in world music: Qualitative understanding of the Meaning of repeated listening. Paper presented at The 10th Asia-Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research (APSMER): Music education for the future generation, Hong Kong Institute of Education, China.
- Lo, K. Y., & Matsunobu, K. (2014). Role of art and creativity in child culture and socialization. In A. Ben-Arieh, F. Casas, I. Frønes, & J. E. Korbin (Eds.), Handbook of child well-being: Theories, methods and policies in global perspective (pp. 1053-1078). New York: Springer.
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External Appointments
Examiner, Australian Music Examinations Board
Examiner, London College of Music Examinations
Reviewer, Springer – International Publisher (2020)
Review Reader of the Editorial Board, The Finnish Journal of Music Education (2020)
