Sofia Serra
- Integrated Doctor
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Departamento de Comunicação e Arte | Universidade de Aveiro
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Campus Universitário de Santiago
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3810-193 Aveiro
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Portugal
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Biography
Sofia Serra holds a PhD in Psychology and Music Education from the University of Sheffield (UK) where she also completed a Masters in Psychology of Music. She has a master's degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in London, and a degree in Singing from Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE), in Porto. She is a Principal Researcher at Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (INET-MD) in the areas of Performance and Psychology of Music, with projects on voice, performance anxiety and music education, with publications in these areas and she collaborates with the Center for Research in Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR). She leads the MUS-A Project, Anxiety in the Musical Performance of Adolescents, funded by FCT between 2023 and 2026.
She coordinated the Masters in Music Education and the Post-Graduation in Sacred Music and Advanced Training and taught at the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Portugal (Porto) between 2002 and 2023. She collaborates regularly with the University of São José (Macau) and taught at ESML (Lisbon).Her performing career includes opera, oratorio and solo recitals, including for the BBC Proms Festival broadcast on BBC Radio 3. She won 2nd prize at the Tracy Chadwell Competition (London) and 2nd Young Entrepreneurs XXI Prize with the cultural project Opera.
