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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

Launched a survey on instrumental music education in Early Childhood... check it HERE

My first book (for teachers) is out: check it HERE

I was invited to become editorial member of Nature's Scientific Reports

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

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)

2024.10.02 ∣ "IoMusT for Children" @ IEEE IS2 (Erlangen, DE)

2024.10.23 ∣ workshop Kinemusical approach @ symposium "Early Childhood Music Education Capacity Building Seminar" (Gevenmacher, LU)

UPCOMING INVITED LECTURES

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University of Luxembourg - personal page

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Ghent University - personal page

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