Peter Shanhun

Peter Shanhun is a Lecturer in Music Education at the School of Education, Edith Cowan University. With over 20 years of teaching experience across K-12 systems in Western Australia, he specializes in Classroom Music, Voice instruction, and Choir direction. He held leadership roles, including President of the Kodály Music Education Institute of Australia (WA Branch, 2016–2017) and completed a Master of Arts in Kodály Music Pedagogy at the Kodály Institute of the Liszt Academy (Hungary, 2019). His qualifications include a BMus Education with First Class Honours from The University of Western Australia (2001) and Professional Equivalence from ECU (2024).

Research interests focus on

• Music Education methodologies
• Teacher Training
• Singing pedagogy
• Integration of arts in education

His professional engagements include roles as Head of Secondary, Head of Arts, and Music Coordinator. Peter actively contributes to music education via memberships in the Kodály Music Education Institute of Australia, Australian Society for Music Education, and International Kodály Society.

Awards include the Sarolta Kodály Scholarship (2016) and Rupert Thackeray Prize in Music Education (2000). Current teaching responsibilities span undergraduate and postgraduate courses such as Teaching Music in Secondary Schools and Music Education Foundations.