Maria Varvarigou is a Senior Lecturer in Music and Performing Arts at Canterbury Christ Church University, a Senior Researcher at the Sidney de Haan Centre for Arts and Health and a Visiting Research Associate at the Institute of Education, University of London. Maria has been performing as solo singer, oboist and chorister for many years. She has participated in several recordings of Greek traditional songs and has developed a great interest in performance practices of traditional music. She completed her MA in Music Performance (Singing) at the University of York, in 2003, and was the recipient of the Young Musicians Fund Scholarship. Maria completed her PhD in 2009 as a scholar of the A. S. Onassis Foundation. Maria is currently leading the Music education and Health pathway of the undergraduate music programme at Canterbury Christ Church University, which comprises five modules: Music Education; Instrumental Teaching and Learning; Music, Health and Wellbeing; Applied Music, Health and wellbeing and dissertations on topics related to education and health benefits with/ through music. She also coordinates the music ensembles of the Department and has PhD students on topics related to performance practice and music education. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and of the Higher Education Academy. Maria is one of the authors of the book Active Music Ageing with Music published in 2014 by IoE University Press.

special interests...

Music for health and wellbeing; intergenerational music-making; ear-playing and performance practices of vernacular music; teaching and learning in higher and professional education.

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