Dr Luciana Hamond currently works as Assistant Professor in the Piano/Music Education areas in the Department of Arts of the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT). Luciana holds a PhD in Music Education from the UCL Institute of Education, University College London (UK), having been a recipient of the Brazilian CAPES Foundation scholarship (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) as a full-time student in the UK. Her doctoral study explored potential pedagogical uses of visual-auditory feedback generated by technology in higher education piano studios. She completed a postdoctoral internship at the State University of Santa Catarina - UDESC (2017-2019) with the international collaboration of Prof. Dr. Anna Rita Addessi of the University of Bologna (Italy). Her post-doctoral study explored pedagogical uses of MIROR-Impro (Musical Interaction Relying On Reflexion), based on IRMSs Interactive Reflective Musical Systems, in developing piano improvisation with principal and secondary instrument undergraduate students in Brazil.

special interests...

piano pedagogy, digital technologies in piano/ keyboard learning and teaching, digital technologies in music education, psychology of music, music performance, music improvisation

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