4. Teaching Musical Performance from an Artistic Research-Based Approach

Jorge Salgado Correia is Associate Professor of Musical Performance and Artistic Creation at the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro. He received his doctorate in 2003 for a dissertation on musical performance as embodied socio-emotional meaning construction. In 2007, he became an integrated researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology/Center of Studies in Music and Dance (Portugal) coordinating, from then until July 2022, the research group “Creation, Performance and Artistic Research”. Jorge is a leading Flautist specialised in the performance of contemporary music but regularly playing other music genres like Portuguese popular music, Tango or Brazilian Chôro. As a soloist and chamber music player, he has participated in more than 12 CDs and toured all over Europe, Latin America, (Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica), USA, Asia (Macau, Shanghai), and Africa (Mozambique). As one of the 3 artistic directors and founders of Performa Ensemble, a leading Portuguese ensemble for contemporary music, Jorge has collaborated extensively with the most prominent Portuguese composers from 2010 until today, playing and recording the première of dozens of new compositions. As conductor and artistic director he founded in 2019 the project FLUTUA, a flute orchestra which has already commissioned about 12 new compositions for its specific formation and its transdisciplinar performance approach (music, dance and staging). Jorge is currently Editor-in-Chief of ÍMPAR-Online Journal for Artistic Research and the Coordinator of the project REACT: Rethinking Music Performance in European Higher Education Music Institutions, a strategic partnership involving five countries and financed by ERASMUS+. Jorge is Director of the Doctoral Program in Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro, Portugal and president of the Portuguese Flute Association.

Clarissa Foletto is a junior researcher (CEECIND/03404/2017) at the Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (INET-md/UA), in Portugal. She is the institutional coordinator of the project DigiMusi (Digital transformation in elementary music education) and a member of the coordinating team of the project REACT: Rethinking Music Performance in European Higher Education Music Institutions, both financially supported by the European Commission–Programme Erasmus+. She holds a European PhD in Instrumental Teaching from the University of Aveiro and completed a traineeship at the Institute of Education, University College of London. Her research focus is on innovative approaches to instrumental teaching and learning, teacher and student communication, strings pedagogy, digital transition in music education, and early childhood in music education.

Ioulia Papageorgi (FHEA, CPsychol, AFBPsS) is a Professor and the Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Nicosia. Ioulia is the Convenor of the Board of Educational Affairs of EFPA, and an elected Committee member of SEMPRE. She currently serves on the Cyprus National Bioethics Committee (President of the Review Bioethics Committee for Biomedical Research). Ioulia has served on the Board of Cyprus Psychologists’ Association (Vice-President, Treasurer). Her research interests include music performance anxiety, the development of expertise, the association between music training and cognitive development, psychometric testing, and teaching and learning in psychology. She has authored multiple publications in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and she has co-edited three books.