C. Victor Fung
Professor of Music Education
Director of center for music education research
Coordinator and academic advisor of ph.d. program
Email: fung@usf.edu
Phone: (813) 974-2311
Office: MUS 315
C. Victor Fung is Professor of Music Education and Founding Director of the Center for Music Education Research. He is also the Director of the Ph.D. program in the School of Music, teaching courses in Social Psychology, Measurement and Evaluation, Statistics, Qualitative Research, Philosophical and Historical Issues, and Music in Higher Education. His online courses were recognized as High Quality Gold Online Course Design (2023) by the USF Office of Corporate Training and Professional Education. He was recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award (2017). For the College of Design, Art and Performance, he is Assistant Dean of Faculty Affairs.
His scholarly work mainly focuses on world music preference and pedagogy, music and aging, and philosophies in music education. He is author of A Way of Music Education: Classic Chinese Wisdoms (Oxford University Press: 2018; translated to Chinese as 《音乐教育之道：中国经典智慧》, Shanghai Conservatory of Music Press, 2024) and co-author of Music for Life: Music Participation and Quality of Life of Senior Citizens (Oxford University Press: 2016; translated to Chinese as 《音悦人生：音乐参与和年长者的生活质量》, Shanghai Educational Publishing House, 2021) and Music, Senior Centers, and Quality of Life (Cambridge University Press: 2023). He also co-edited, and contributed chapters in, Meanings of Music Participation: Scenarios from the United States (Routledge, 2023) and The Oxford Handbook of Asian Philosophies in Music Education (Oxford University Press, 2024). His latest book, Music Deep and Wide in Older Adults (2025), is available at Springer. He has articles published in numerous professional journals, and he has served as a reviewer for many journals and a few book publishers. He was a Fulbright Specialist in Brazil (2025) and a Fulbright Researcher in Japan (2018). He has given over a hundred presentations at professional conferences and numerous open lectures at over thirty universities and music conservatories in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America.
He is the founding director of The Sparkles, a world music fusion group at USF since 2022. The group has performed at schools and communities in Florida and at professional conferences, including the 36th World Conference of the International Society for Music Education in Helsinki, Finland.
He is the Executive Producer of the album Fung Flow, which has received a Bronze Medal (Global Music Awards, September 2023) in recognition of its “concept” and “creativity/originality.” The production was based on his 2018 book and was in collaboration with José Valentino Ruiz and El G. Nie.
He holds a Ph.D. in Music Education with minor areas in Ethnomusicology and Conducting from Indiana University, Bloomington. He was a Board Member for the International Society for Music Education (ISME), College Music Society (CMS), and Florida Music Education Association (FMEA). He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Society for Research in Music Education (SRME) under the auspices of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) and also on the Executive Committee of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education (ISPME).