Playful Sounds – Personhood
This conference will stimulate new thinking about music and
the expressive arts through a dynamic European network of
educators and researchers whose meeting together will no
doubt benefit Europe's young children and their families'
wellbeing and aesthetic lives.
Jessica Pitt - CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizers' board member
“Playful sounds” describe the possibilities that music and arts
have in our lives. The playfulness of creativity enables us to
experience and reflect on our life in a new way.
At a first glance playfulness and personhood may
seem to be contrasting understandings and attitudes
intending – from a conservative point of view – a
development from the first to the latter. But in our
view, as well as in the context of interdisciplinary and
innovative arts approaches and education today these
are rather complementary and intertwined concepts
cross fertilizing each other on manifold levels.
Tiina Selke - CFMAE-MERYC2015 conference chair
Gerhard Lock - CFMAE-MERYC2015 conference organizer
Laura Huhtinen-Hildén - CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizers' board member
Music allows us to imagine, create, and share sounds with other people in ways that are playful, engaging, and personal
and yet socially inclusive.
Tuomas Eerola - CFMAE-MERYC2015 keynote speaker
EuNetMERYC and CFMAE-MERYC2015 board
CFMAE-MERYC2015 conference main speakers
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizers' team
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Tiina Selke, PhD
Professor of Music Education Didactics, Department of Music,
Institute of Fine Arts, Tallinn University &
Ääsme School Teacher, Estonia
CFMAE-MERYC2015 conference chair
TTS2015 Teacher Training Seminar organizer
Kindergarten/School/Music School program organizer
EuNet MERYC board member
ETIS CV
Gerhard Lock
Lecturer of Musicology, Department of Music, Institute of Fine Arts,
Tallinn University, Estonia
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Estonia (PhD candidate)
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
REMEC Research Methodology Course organizer
TTS2015 Teacher Training Seminar organizer
TLU Music Department CV
Michel Hogenes
Lecturer, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
EuNet MERYC chair
EuNet MERYC board member
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
EuNetMERYC website CV
Michel Hogenes is a lecturer of music education at the teacher education department and a researcher in the
research group Youth and Development of The Hague University in The Netherlands. He also lectures
pedagogy and psychology at Codarts, the Rotterdam School of Music. Michel’s research interests are in the
field of primary & early childhood education and music, with a focus on child development, and curriculum. The theoretical
framework of his research is the cultural-historical (Vygotskian) approach. Besides lecturing Michel conducts a community choir and
he is also president of Gehrels Music Education, a Dutch association for music education.
Jessica Pitt, PhD
Research Associate, Lecturer, Department of Education,
University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom
MERYC-UK chair
EuNet MERYC board member
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
EuNetMERYC website CV
Jessica Pitt is Chair of MERYC-UK which hosts a national early childhood music education conference every two years. She
completed her doctoral research (funded by The Froebel Institute) at the University of Roehampton investigating the role of parentchild music group activities with participants in Children’s Centres. She is a research associate for the Froebel Research Fellowship
Project, lectures for the Early Childhood Studies degree programme at University of Roehampton, and is course tutor for the MA in
early years music at CREC (Centre for Research in Early Childhood) in Birmingham. She believes in the tremendous positive
professional development that can take place when practitioners and academics meet together.
Laura Huhtinen-Hildén, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
EuNet MERYC board member
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
Helsinki Metropolia CV
EuNetMERYC website CV
Since 2007 Laura Huhtinen-Hildén (Ph.D MMus, music therapist) has been working as the Senior Lecturer in
music education at Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland. From 2009-2011 she was
Head of Studies in the music degree programme. Her special responsibility is for the programme in early
childhood music education and community music and she also coordinates research and development work
within the degree programme (director of the CultureBridge- EU-project 2008-2011). Her research “Towards
sensitive music teaching. Pathways to becoming a professional music educator” (2012) focuses on the formation process of the
professional skills needed in music teaching, the development of expertise and sense of professional identity formed during the
study/learning process in order to become a music educator. She has been developing the content and structure of the studies in the
degree programme to be more learner-centered and to focus on participatory teaching methods. Her pedagogical areas of
specialization are: early childhood music education, special music education, pre-instrumental music education, arts integration and
movement, as working methods in music education.
Stefanie Stadler Elmer, PhD
Professor at the Institute of Psychology,
Zürich University, Switzerland
CFMAE-MERYC main speaker
EuNet MERYC board member
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
REMEC Research Methodology Course lecturer
MPC2015 Music Psychology Course lecturer
University of Zurich CV
EuNetMERYC website CV
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Stadler Elmer is Professor of Psychology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She received her PhD from the
University of Bern and her Habilitation from the University of Zurich. Important book publications are: Spiel und Nachahmung (play
and imitation, 2000); Kinder singen Lieder (children sing songs, 2002). Her main interests in research and teaching concern the
development of music and language, song singing, and methods to foster early development in these domains. She is involved in
several research projects at national and international levels, e.g., as a collaborator in the AIRS (Advancing Interdisciplinary
Research in Singing), supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and UMSIC (usability of music
for the social inclusion of children), an interdisciplinary project funded by the EU.
Jaan Valsiner, PhD
Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology,
Aalborg University, Denmark
Professor of Psychology and English at Clark University, USA
CFMAE-MERYC main speaker
REMEC Research Methodology Course lecturer
Aalborg University CV
Clark University CV
Private website
Jaan Valsiner is the Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University in Denmark, and
Professor of Psychology and English at Clark University, USA. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage
journal, Culture & Psychology and Editor-in-Chief of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Sciences
(Springer, from 2007). In 1995 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for his interdisciplinary work on human
development.
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Graham Welch, PhD
Professor and Chair of Music Education,
Institute of Education, University College London, London, United Kingdom
SEMPRE chair
CFMAE-MERYC main speaker
Institute of Education CV
Tuomas Eerola, PhD
Professor of Music Cognition/Empirical Musicology, Department of Music,
Durham University, United Kingdom
CFMAE-MERYC main speaker
Durham University CV
Rūta Girdzijauskienė, PhD
Professor at the Department of Music Theory and Pedagogy,
Klaipeda University, Lithuania
EAS board member
CFMAE-MERYC main speaker
Klaipeda University CV
Nikolaos Zafranas, PhD
Assoc. Professor at the Department of Music Studies,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
CFMAE-MERYC main speaker
MPC2015 Music Psychology Course lecturer
TEDx Athens CV
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizers' team
Vaike Kiik-Salupere, PhD
Associated Professor of Vocal Studies, Head of Department of Music,
Institute of Fine Arts Tallinn University, Estonia
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
TTS2015 Teacher Training Seminar organizer
ETIS CV
Marit Mõistlik-Tamm, PhD
Lecturer of Music, Department of Music Institute of Fine Arts,
Tallinn University, & Tallinn Adult Learning Centre, Estonia
Maternal leave since February 2015
CFMAE-MERYC2015 organizer
ETIS CV
Paul Beaudoin, PhD
Associate Prof. in Music Theory and Interdisciplinary Arts, Online Learning Specialist
Fitchburg University MA, United States of America
Tallinn University Institute of Fine Arts Department of Music
Fulbright Scholar Spring 2015
CFMAE-MERYC2015 round table discussion moderator
Wikipedia CV
Organizational support at the Department of Music
Karin Org, project manager at Tallinn University Conference Center
Liisi Järve, study coordinator
Ariel Marksalu & Madli Luik, student assistants
Raul Talmar & Merike Aarma, coordinators and conductors of „Musical Moments“
Avo Ulvik, technical coordinator
Pille Saar, Tiit Lauk & Valdo Rüütelmaa, conference support
Auri Niilo & Lilian Jõesaar, book shop
MA and BA students
Partners at Tallinn University
Conference Center
Institute of Educational Sciences
Institute of Psychology