Andrea Asztalos
Dr. Andrea Asztalos Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Music Education at the University of Szeged, in Hungary. She received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music Education and Choral Conducting at the University of Szeged in Hungary.
For 15 years, she taught voice training to children aged 10-18 at the Zoltán Kodály Hungarian Choir School in Budapest. From 2012 to 2015 she conducted the Canterini Children’s Chamber Choir and Cantabile Girl’s Chamber Choir in Budapest. In 2020, she completed her doctoral studies and obtained her Ph.D. in music education, summa cum laude, at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
Her research interests include the problems of children’s singing voice production; the development of children’s singing voice quality; vocal and choral warm-ups, the development of children’s musical abilities, music perception, music cognition, choral pedagogy, sight-singing pedagogy, music teacher’s beliefs, and innovation in music education.
Her research has been published in the international music education journal: Research Studies in Music Education, Bulletin of the International Kodály Society, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Series Musica. She was the presenter at several national and international conferences (RIME, EAS, ICVT)