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Maria Varvarigou
Maria Varvarigou completed her Ph.D. in music education at the Institute of Education (University of London) as a scholar of the A. S. Onassis Foundation. Maria now is lecturer in music education at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. This follows several years of working as a senior lecturer in music at Canterbury Christchurch University, a senior researcher at the Sidney de Haan Centre for Arts and Health and an honorary research associate at UCL Institute of Education, University of London, Maria now holds the position of. Maria has extensive research experience concerned with intergenerational musicking, ear-playing and performance practices of vernacular music; effective teaching and learning in higher and professional education and choral conducting education. Maria has published widely on intergenerational interactions in music education and music for health setting as well as on ways of developing classical musicians’ personal and collaborative creativity through playing by ear from recordings.
Contact: Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, South Circular Road, Limerick, V94 VN26, Ireland.
