Peter Webster is the John Beattie Professor of Music Education and Technology at the Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He holds degrees in music education from the University of Southern Maine (BS) and the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester (MM, PhD). He has taught in the public schools of Maine, Massachusetts, and New York; following fourteen years of teaching at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, he moved to Northwestern in 1988. He has held various administrative positions in his career, including his current term as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Northwestern. His teaching responsibilities currently include courses in philosophy of music education, graduate research, music technology, assessment, and creative thinking in music. He supervises the doctoral program in music education. Webster has presented at many state, national, and international meetings and is a frequent keynote speaker. His published work includes over 70 articles and book chapters on technology, music cognition, and creative thinking in music which have appeared in journals and handbooks in and outside of music. He is an editorial board member for several prestigious journals and has severed as an editor for several projects. Webster is co-author of Experiencing Music Technology, 3rd edition Update (Wadsworth/Schirmer, 2008), the standard textbook used in introductory college courses in music technology. He is the author of Measures of Creative Thinking in Music, an exploratory tool for assessing music thinking using quasi-improvisational tasks.