Name: Private-Sector Popular Music Schools: Locations, Challenges, Opportunities
Start: 2026-06-05T10:20:00-0400
End: 2026-06-05T10:45:00-0400

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Join us June 4–6 at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami, as we celebrate the rhythms, relationships, and revolutions shaping popular music education.

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Private-Sector Popular Music Schools: Locations, Challenges, Opportunities

Friday June 5, 2026 10:20am - 10:45am EDT

Volpe 102

This paper discusses the global-yet-understudied phenomenon of private-sector popular music schools. Co-written by a music school owner (Mario) and a researcher studying private music schools (Kayla), we combine our international experience and perspectives to argue that popular music schools within the private sector are a unique – and worthy – topic of inquiry and discussion within popular music education.

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Mario de Inocencio

Founder and Director, Musiquea|Formación en Música Moderna

Mario de Inocencio is the founder and director of Musiquea|Formación en Música Moderna, a private music school based in Santander, northern Spain. Mario began his musical studies at the age of nine when he enrolled in piano lessons at a small school in Santander. During his adolescence... Read More →

Kayla Rush

Assistant Professor in Music, Mary Immaculate College

Dr Kayla Rush is an anthropologist of art, music, and performance, and an Assistant Professor in Music at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland. She earned her PhD in Social Anthropology from Queen’s University Belfast in 2018. She has previously held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie... Read More →

Friday June 5, 2026 10:20am - 10:45am EDT
Volpe 102 Volpe Building, San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, USA

📚Research (25), Business/ Entrepreneurship

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