Honorary Doctorate at the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University, Sweden in 2021. He has also been conferred Honorary Life Membership of the International Society of Music Education and is a Fellow of the Australian Society for Music Education. McPherson was raised in the central west NSW town of Parkes. He is the recipient of the second awarded Star of Parkes Shire (star 3034556 Lyra), a symbolic honour presented by the Mayor of the Parkes Shire Council, in the tradition of presenting the key to the city. This award marked his outstanding contribution to music and music education that brings credit to his hometown of Parkes. The stars are reflective of the most iconic symbol of the Parkes Shire, the Parkes Radio Telescope (the ‘Dish), and was presented at the opening of the Cooke Park Performance Stage on April 2, 2022. McPherson is patron to four Australian music education organisations, including the National Institute of Youth Performing Arts and the Australian Piano Award. He has received numerous faculty awards for his teaching and research over his career. Publications McPherson has published many edited books and book chapters, encyclopedia entries, monographs, and edited conference proceedings. Examples of edited or co-edited/authored volumes for Oxford University Press include The Child as Musician, The Oxford Handbook of Music Education, and Music in our Lives: Rethinking Musical Ability, Identity and Development. The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance, of which McPherson is editor, consists of a two volume, fifty four chapter compendium that involves eighty scholars from thirteen countries. Don Hodges, who reviewed this publication for Psychology of Music described it as standing "head, shoulders, and torso above anything else that is available in the way of music psychology research applied to music performance". An interview chapter that chronicles McPherson's personal and professional life was published by Bembenutty in 2022. Interviews Bembenutty, H. (2022). An Interview with Gary E. McPherson: The Pioneer of the Development of Self-Regulation Music Expertise. Contemporary pioneers in teaching and learning, Vol. II (pp. 173-196). North Carolina: Information Age Publishing. Selected edited books Sundin, B., McPherson, G. E., & Folkestad, G. (Eds.), (1998). Children composing. Lund: Lunds University (Malmö Academy of Music), Sweden. . (with accompanying CD recording). Parncutt, R., & McPherson, G. E. (Eds.), (2002). The science and psychology of music performance: Creative strategies for music teaching and learning. New York: Oxford University Press. . McPherson, G. E. (2006),