Evan Tobias

Evan Tobias is associate professor of music education at Arizona State University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and heads the Consortium for Innovation and Transformation in Music Education (CITME). He is also director of ArtsWork: The Kax Herberger Center for Children and the Arts. Prior to his appointment at ASU, Tobias taught a technology in music education course at DePaul University and middle school instrumental and general music in New York.

Tobias focuses on innovation and transformation in music education and how music learning and teaching might make a positive impact on people's lives and society. He co-created the J Dilla Music Tech Grant initiative with Save The Music Foundation to support music educators expand their music programs with contemporary music and technology and consults music programs seeking to update, expand, and design music curriculum. He is currently working on the intersections of futures thinking, imagination and curriculum inquiry and design.

His recent research focuses on creative uses of digital media and technology, issues of justice and equity, expanding beyond typical music curricula, and approaches to integrating popular culture and music in music classrooms. His publications range from addressing issues around digitally mediated musical engagement and learning to pedagogical approaches such as inquiry and project-based learning and facilitating hybrid music learning contexts. He is on the editorial boards of College Music Symposium: Instructional Technologies and Methodologies Component; Journal of Music, Technology, and Education; Journal of Popular Music Education; and Music Educators Journal. He is a frequent presenter at state, national, and international conferences. 

He publishes a free newsletter: #ImaginingPossibilities for Music Learning & Teaching

Tobias discusses issues in music teaching and learning in relation to contemporary society via his:

• Website
• Bluesky account, 
• YouTube Channel,
• Newsletter