Peter Webster (b Augusta, Maine, May 31, 1947) Music Educator. Peter Webster is the John Beattie Professor of Music Education and Technology at the Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Degrees in music education from the University of Southern Maine (BS) and the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester (MM, PhD). Public school music teacher in Maine, Massachusetts, and New York; fourteen years at Case Western Reserve University; moved to Northwestern in 1988. Administrative positions include terms as Department Chair and Associate Dean. Teaching includes courses in philosophy, graduate research, music technology, assessment, and creative thinking in music. Webster has published work that includes over 75 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 the author of Measures of Creative Thinking in Music, an exploratory tool for assessing music thinking using quasi-improvisational tasks. Webster is co-author of Experiencing Music Technology, 3rd edition Update (Cengage/Schirmer, 2008), the standard textbook used in introductory college courses in music technology, and is and is co-editor of the new 2-volume MENC Oxford Research Handbook on Music Learning (Oxford University Press, 2012).