Department of Music Studies
Music Education Lab
Early Researchers Forum IV
Early Researchers Forum IV will take place on Thursday 18 June 2026, in Room 917 of the School of Philosophy, from 15:00 to 20:00. It is jointly organised by the Music Education Lab & Music, Cognitive Sciences and Community Lab of the NKUA Department of Music Studies. The meeting will feature research by music teachers, postgraduate students and doctoral candidates from the two Labs. The keynote address, “CV: What now?”, will be delivered by Dimitra Trypani, Professor and composer in the Department of Music Studies at the Ionian University. The Forum will conclude with a musical contribution from Musickators, the Music Education Lab ensemble.
The detailed Forum programme is as follows:
15:00- 15:10 Opening – Welcome addresses
Professor Smaragda Chrysostomou, Director of the Music Education Lab
Associate Professor Christina Anagnostopoulou, Director of the Music, Cognitive Sciences and Community Lab.
Presentations
15:10 - 15:40 “Designing and implementing an educational intervention using extended techniques and playing inside the piano in a music school: A case study” – Manos Markou, Pianist and music teacher; MA, NKUA; Integrated Master's in Jazz Piano, Ionian University.
15:40-16:10 “Music teachers' attitudes and views on the educational value and application of STEAM practices in music teaching and learning” – Foteini Mouratidou, Musician.
16:10-16:40 “Changes in music performance anxiety over time: Musicians' narratives and experiences” – Sofia Sevasti Markou, Musician.
16:40-17:10 “Conservatoire instrumental teachers' views on the role of music competitions and their contribution to supporting gifted students aged up to sixteen” – Georgia Psarra, Musicologist, holder of diplomas in classical guitar and solo singing, postgraduate music education graduate and music teacher in primary and conservatoire education.
17:10-17:40 “Songwriting practices in primary music education: Music teachers' views, practices and challenges in Greece” – Dorothea Michail, Musicologist and music educator, PE79.01; Graduate of the Master's programme in Music Education in Formal and Informal Settings.
17:40-18:10 “Choirs in primary education within the all-day school: Design, implementation and initial findings of a case study” – Thodoris Korakas, Doctoral candidate, NKUA; Music teacher, PE79.01.
Keynote address
18:30-19:30 “CV: What now?” – Dimitra Trypani, Professor and composer, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University.
Artistic programme
19:40-20:00 Musickators, the Music Education Lab ensemble.