LUCIA CASAL DE LA FUENTE

Singer with a Degree in Psychopedagogy, and with two Master s Degrees in Therapy and in Training Processes. In the period 2014-2021 she worked at the USC as a teacher in the Department of Pedagogy and Didactics (7 years), as an international projects officer (10 months), and as an officer of teachers training and innovation (9 months). Since the year 2021 she is a teacher and researcher in the Department of Special Didactics (Area of Didactics of Musical Expression) of the UVIGO. With training and expertise in didactics and in vocal technique, she has taught in music schools, and did several international research stays in Italy, Czech Republic, Argentina, England, Brazil, and Portugal, in which she combined the study of vocal and singing education, singing therapy, singing, (early)childhood education, innovation, and equity. She combined all these topics in her PhD titled: Best psychopedagogical practices for vocal education and childhood singing: case studies of two internationally renowned programs , supervised by Miguel Ángel Zabalza y Carol Gillanders. She is the coordinator of the psychopedagogical project of vocal and singing education VOCES LEDAS, and actively takes part in conferences and seminars linked to education, being also the author of diverse publications and collaborator of national and international research groups.