Professor Helena Gaunt is Principal at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.Helena is a National Teaching Fellow and Principal Fellow of the Higher EducationAcademy. Research interests include one-to-one instrumental/vocal tuition inmusic, ensemble practices and collaborative learning in the performing arts, andcreative entrepreneurship. Helena directs the international Refl ective ConservatoireConference hosted triennially at the Guildhall, and is the Chair of the InnovativeConservatoire (ICON), an international partnership dedicated to curriculum andleadership development in specialist music education. She is also co-editor ofMusic Performance Research and a member of the Editorial Board of the BritishJournal of Music Education. Alongside research, she is an oboist, was a memberof the Britten Sinfonia for many years, and is a Trustee of the National YouthOrchestra of Great Britain.Heidi Westerlund is Professor at the Sibelius Academy, University of the ArtsHelsinki, Finland, where she is responsible for the music education doctoral studies.Her research interests include music teacher education, collaborative learning,cultural diversity and democracy in music education, and philosophy of musiceducation. She is the Editor-in-chief of the Finnish Journal of Music Education andhas served in the editorial and reviewer boards in numerous international journals.She is the co-editor of Collaborative Learning in Higher Music Education (Ashgate,2013), Music, Education, and Religion: Intersections and Entanglements (IndianaUniversity Press, 2019), and Visions for Intercultural Music Teacher Education(Springer, 2019). She is currently leading two research projects funded by theAcademy of Finland that have engaged altogether over 100 researchers: ArtsEqual -The Arts as Public Service: Strategic Steps towards Equality (2015-2021) and GlobalVisions through Mobilizing Networks: Co-developing Intercultural Music TeacherEducation in Finland, Israel and Nepal (2015-2020).

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• Invitation Helena Gaunt and Heidi Westerlund1. Expanding professionalism in and through Finnish local operaLiisamaija Hautsalo2. Practicing civic professionalism through inter-professional collaboration: Re-connecting quality with equality in the Nordic music school systemTuulikki Laes, Heidi Westerlund, Eva Saether and Hanna Kamensky3. Making space: Expanding professionalism through relational university-community partnerships Ailbhe Kenny4. Fostering transformative professionalism through curriculum changes within a Bachelor of MusicGemma Carey and Leah Coutts5. Rewriting the score: how pre-professional musical work can develop student thinkingJennifer Rowley, Dawn Bennett and Anna Reid6. Conflicting professional identities for artists in transprofessional contexts: Insights from a pilot programme initiating artistic interventions in organisations Kai Lehikoinen, Anne Pässilä and Allan Owens 7. Moving encounters: Embodied pedagogical interaction in music and dance educators’ expanding professionalism Katja Sutela, Sanna Kivijärvi and Eeva Anttila 8. Towards ethically responsible musicianship. Reflections on navigating power dynamics in co-curating a collaborative music practice in a hospital Karolien Dons and Helena Gaunt9. Making our way through the deep waters of lifeTaru Koivisto 10. World In Motion ensemble: my professional journey with refugee musicians and music university studentsKatja Thomson