Welcome to my personal website!
I'm a musician, educator and researcher, affiliated as an Associate Professor in Early Childhood Music Education to the University of Luxemburg. I am also affiliated to IPEM at Ghent University, as a Visiting Professor. Previously, I was affiliated to IPEM (Ghent University) as a Ph.D. student and postdoc, and to the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp as a Ph.D. student in the arts.
I devote my time to the development of [research & practice]-based innovative movement-based approaches to instrumental music teaching and learning (in Early Childhood).
The leitmotiv in my work is the integration of theoretical, empirical and practical research. Importantly, my research is constantly inspired by my experience as performer and teacher.
Next to my work as an academic, I am a guest lecturer at different conservatoires. I play the clarinet in a balkan/klezmer band with some of my friends, the Holy7.
NEWS
Due to the success of the first special issue on 'Music Education, Embodiment & Flourishing', Frontiers asked us to create a second volume on the same topic. see here
new paper accepted on AR and Music Education, in IEEE Access. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10597574
new paper on embodied creativity: https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2023.2299159
our IAS Audacity project SAMUSE ("Analysis of Skills Acquisition in music performance through a MUlti- SEnsing approach") has been approved!
I will be chair of the next ICDS conference, hosted by the University of Luxembourg in 2025
I was invited to talk in the BBC Sideways podcast, on "The Embodiment of Music". check it here
2024.30.04 ∣ Flourishing in Resonance: Joint Resilience Building Through Music and Motion (York, UK, Online)
2024.05.09 ∣ panel discussion @Tech-Enhanced Music Education Symposium (Montreal, CA, online)
2024.05.17 ∣ lecture @ Rencontre scientifique "Musique et Transmission à la lumière des sciences cognitives" (Université de Strassbourg, online)
2024.05.29 ∣ Interactive technologies in music @ Symposium “Accessible Digital Musical Instruments : Approaches, Design, Evaluation” (St Etienne, F)
2024.07.29 ∣ 2 lectures, 1 workshop at ISME (Helsinki, FI)
2024.09.11 ∣ "Embodied Music Pedagogy", Heymans Colloquium (Groningen, NL)
2024.10.23 ∣ workshop Kinemusical approach @ symposium "Early Childhood Music Education Capacity Building Seminar" (Gevenmacher, LU)
