Rena Upitis (Ed.D., Harvard) teaches music at the Faculty of Education at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She has taught music at elementary schools in both Canada and the United States and has published widely on music education, including the book This Too Is Music (Heinemann, 1990). A trained pianist, cellist, vocalist, and composer, Rena's compositions include arrangements of Latvian folk tunes and a children's musical. She lives in the country near Kingston in a restored limestone schoolhouse.