Education
2011–16: PhD in education, University of Exeter, UK (qualitative research study on »Collaborative creativity in music education: Children’s interactions in group creative music making«)
2010–11: Master of Science in Educational Research, University of Exeter, UK
2006: Master’s degree in Literature and Philosophy (Ethnomusicology), University of Rome »Tor Vergata« (thesis on »Orff-Schulwerk as Anthropology of Music«)
1999: Diploma di pianoforte principale (piano degree), Conservatorio »Rossini«, Pesaro
1994–97: Kurzstudium »Musik und Bewegungserziehung«, Orff Institute for Music and Dance Education, Mozarteum University, Salzburg, Austria (thesis on group improvisation: »Kontinuum musikalischer Produktion und Interaktion im gruppenimprovisatorischen Kontext«)