Beatriz Ilari is Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Southern California. She has published five books in Brazil, including Musica na infancia e adolescencia and Em busca da mente musical and is editor of Perspectives: Journal of the Early Childhood Music & Movement.
Susan Young is Retired Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and Music Education at the University of Exeter, UK. She is author of Music with the Under Fours and Music 3-5.