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Who is Dr Brad Fuller?
Hello, I’m Brad.
I’m a Sydney-based Electric Bassist and Educator with over 35 years of experience in music and education in almost every setting imaginable. I’ve shared my work in music education with teachers around the world since the year 2000 in person and as a pioneer of online teacher training. I hold a PhD in music education from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music where I lecture in a range of graduate and post graduate courses. I’ve begun to establish an international research presence through peer reviewed papers, presentations at international conferences, and a recently published chapter in the Routledge Companion to Creativities in Music Education with Dr James Humberstone FRSA. I’m also a lecturer in education at the University of Technology, Sydney, a presenter with Teacher Training Australia (TTA), an examiner with the Australian Music Examinations Board, and the co-founder, with Peter Orenstein, of Gig Based Learning.
In 2013, I met Peter Orenstein, at a school in the northern beaches of Sydney. As a saxophonist in the Hot Potato Band, Peter began his journey as a music educator riffing with me about the history of my work and what that meant for the students in front of us. As we attempted to distil our experiences as musicians and educators, we landed at the phrase: “It’s all about the Gig”. We felt the phrase captured how an opportunity to share musical experiences and/or products (gigs) can be such a powerful motivator for musicians to study, create/source, and rehearse music. Working from this maxim, we are developing an approach called Gig Based Learning (GBL). Gig Based Learning, aims to connect and empower classroom music educators to live the “good life of good teaching” (Thanks Thomas A. Regelski for that phrase!).
I’d love to continue the conversation with you. Pete and I have a Gig Based Learning Community of Practice. We’d love you to join us there. Pete and I also talk about lots of the stuff in this blog on our Gig Based Learning YouTube Channel.
