Welcome to the APMExMEMECO Italy 2026 Conference! Here you can register and update your Sched profile. A draft schedule will be available May 15th, when you’ll be able to explore sessions and build your agenda.
This panel explores how music education can move beyond restrictive labels and borders through Mediterranean perspectives. Drawing on MEMECO and APME research and practice, panelists examine culturally responsive pedagogy, participatory music-making, and transnational collaboration to reimagine music education as inclusive, fluid, and intercultural.
Professor/CEO, Berklee College of Music/Songwriting for Music Educators
Kat Reinhert is a genre-defying songwriter, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and bandleader. She has released five independently produced albums and collaborated with artists like Anat Fort, Jo Lawry, Ross Pederson, Michael Leonhart, Josh Logan, Stephen Lit, and David Cook. Her songwriting... Read More →
Born into a legacy of resilience—with genocide in her DNA as the descendant of Armenian genocide survivors and having grown up amid violent conflict— Christiane Karam has transformed personal trauma into a powerful healing methodology. As a Professor of Voice, Ensemble, and Songwriting... Read More →
Stefano Marchese is an award-winning Italian singer-songwriter and educator. He has collaborated with Grammy winners Bobby McFerrin and Luis Enrique, among others. Thanks to his solo album Radici, in 2021 he was nominated by Serafini as one the 100 most relevant Abruzzesi abroad... Read More →
Tuesday July 14, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am CEST Liceo Ovidio - Room 2PIAZZA XX SETTEMBRE 13, 67039 SULMONA (AQ)
Music permeates human life, yet in schools its educational role is often reduced to technical training and classical repertoire. Drawing on critical pedagogy and anthropology, this panel explores music as a transformative human practice that fosters experience, meaning-making, identity, and social development, especially in pre-adolescence and adolescence.
Professor of Music Education, Conservatorio di Musica di Pescara
Valentina Chiola is Professor of Music Pedagogy at the "Luisa D'Annunzio" Conservatory of Music in Pescara, with a background in music education dating back to 1985. She holds degrees in Piano Performance, Music Education, and Pedagogy (Roma Tre University), along with postgraduate... Read More →
Tuesday July 14, 2026 12:00pm - 12:45pm CEST Liceo Ovidio - Room 2PIAZZA XX SETTEMBRE 13, 67039 SULMONA (AQ)
The cultural diversity within schools makes the development of music teachers’ intercultural competence an increasingly relevant priority (Westerlund, Karlsen, & Partti, 2020; Cabedo-Mas, 2015). From this perspective, beginning with an analysis of the Italian context (Institutional programs and political expectations), the panel will focus on concrete experiences and initiatives in intercultural training within musical practice, such as inviting foreign musicians to participate in teaching activities and in the creation of intercultural ensembles. Following an examination of an Italian intercultural teacher-training program, we will move to international experiences, within the broader framework of a world-education perspective (Biesta 2021).
Professor of Pedagogy and Psychology of Music (Phd), conservatory Santa Cecilia, Rome, Italy
Sandra Fortuna is a Professor of Pedagogy and Psychology of Music at the Conservatory of Music in Rome (Italy). She holds a Ph.D in Systematic Musicology (Ghent University), MA degrees in Musicology, Music Education, and Violin Performance. Her work addresses the integration of... Read More →
PhD student, University of Milano Bicocca, Deparment of Human Science for Education "Riccardo Massa"
Gabriele Greggio is a social pedagogist and musician, PhD student in Education at Milano Bicocca University. Since 2011 he work as music educator in early childhood context (family, schoolgarden).
Professor, Conservatorio "GPL da Palestrina" Cagliari; Conservatorio "G.Braga" Teramo, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna
Elisabetta Piras teaches Music Pedagogy for Music Education at the “GP da Palestrina” Conservatory in Cagliari. She is an adjunct professor and subject expert in “Methodology of Music Education” at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, and collaborates with many... Read More →
Assistant Professor of Music Education, Queens College
Claudia Calì is Assistant Professor of Music Education at Queens College (CUNY) in NewYork. A native of Italy, Claudia Calì holds a Degree in Piano Performance from the Conservatoryof Perugia, as well as degrees from the University of Perugia and the Catholic University ofMilan... Read More →
Tuesday July 14, 2026 5:00pm - 5:45pm CEST Liceo Ovidio - Room 2PIAZZA XX SETTEMBRE 13, 67039 SULMONA (AQ)
