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Juliana Cantarelli Vita
Juliana Cantarelli Vita is an assistant professor of music education at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School. Blending her interests in music education and ethnomusicology, she has published on children’s musical cultures, collective songwriting, world music pedagogy and Afro-Brazilian drumming traditions in the Journal of Folklore Education, Malaysian Journal of Music and The Orff Echo, with upcoming publications in the International Journal of Community Music and the Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Music Learning and Development. She has received research grants from the American Orff-Schulwerk Association (for the work on collective songwriting at the Yakama Nation Tribal School) and is the recipient of the Elizabeth May (Slater) Award from the Society for Ethnomusicology. She has been a keynote speaker for the Pennsylvania a Collegiate Music Educators Association Symposium and a guest speaker at numerous universities in South/North America and Europe. She holds a Ph.D. in music education with an emphasis in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington, and a master’s in music education from West Virginia University. She directs the Hartt School’s Smithsonian Folkways Certificate course in world music pedagogy, after being actively involved with the course at West Virginia University (2015–22) and at the University of Washington (2018–22).
Contact: University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave, West Hartford, CT, 06117, USA.