The rapid development of artificial intelligence presents music education not only with new tools, but with a profound opportunity to re-examine its underlying philosophies and purposes. AI compels us to ask: What does it mean to teach, learn, and create music when human imagination, tradition, and technology intersect in unprecedented ways? Beyond technical adaptations, the challenge is to reimagine music education as a practice that balances innovation with cultural continuity, and activation with reflection. This symposium convenes scholars from diverse cultural and disciplinary contexts to engage four interrelated perspectives: (1) Philosophical Foundations: How can music education respond to AI through new philosophical frameworks that move from discipline and replication toward activation and creation, foregrounding human imagination as life’s enduring impulse? (2) Pluralising Creativities and Storying: In what ways can intercultural and narrative approaches sustain multiple pathways of creativity, expanding beyond standardized models of learning to foster forms of “never-ending storying” that enrich musical meaning? (3) Tradition and Transformation: What new possibilities and tensions emerge when AI intersects with traditional musics, heritage practices, and cultural continuity, and how might music education safeguard and revitalize these resources? (4) Futures of Music Education in Practice: How can higher education reforms and AI-enabled teacher education reshape music pedagogy and research, and what forms of global collaboration can guide us toward human flourishing? Through these dialogues, the symposium aims to reimagine music education in the AI era—not by reducing AI to a mere instrument, but by treating it as a catalyst for rethinking the goals, values, and futures of music education worldwide. The participants in this panel include authors who have produced recent books and articles concerned with these topics.