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AI Music Educator of the Year
Honors an outstanding teacher or instructor whose work this year did the most to help students learn how to create music with AI, at any level.
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2025 Awards
AI Music Educator of the Year
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Ben Camp (Berklee)
A Berklee songwriting professor, Ben Camp authored and teaches “AI for Songwriters,” one of the first structured courses helping musicians use AI tools in composition — bringing AI music into the classroom at the field's most prominent school.
Other nominees
James Gutierrez (Northeastern University)
Teaches “40,000 Years of Music Technology,” integrating AI in the classroom.
Zhiyao Duan (University of Rochester)
AI-music researcher and co-founder of Violy, an AI music-education company.
Fatemeh Jamshidi (Cal Poly Pomona)
Founder of the “Computing + Music” outreach programs.
Kristen Yeon-Ji Yun (Purdue)
Clinical professor and NSF principal investigator on AI for musicians.