Teaching staff
REBECA KERSTIN ALONSO LACASTA
- Knowledge area
- Teaching of Musical Expression
- Department
- Didactics of Musical, Plastic and Body Expresion
- Centre
- Electronic mail
- rebecakerstin.alonso@ehu.eus
She obtained the Degree in Music (Violin Speciality) by the Higher Music Center of the Basque Country Musikene (2006) and she finished PhD in Human and Social Sciences with International Mention and Cum Laude by the Pontifical University of Salamanca (2017).
After three years as a violinist at the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra (BOS), she turned out her career towards pedagogy, working in professional music conservatories and at the Public University of Navarra (UPNA). She is currently a professor in the area of music of the Department of Didactics of musical, plastic and corporal expression at the UPV / EHU in the Faculty of Education of Bilbao.
She has published scientific articles and books on music education and neuropsychology. She has carried out communications or presentations at national and international congresses. She has made international research stays at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm (KTH) and the Center for Music in Brain at the University of Aarhus (Denmark) with a project on Anxiety in musical performance and body awareness , by the supervision of Drs. Boris Kleber and Peter Vuust.
She has received a positive evaluation of the teaching and research activity for the hiring of university professors in the figure of Attached Professor or Assistant Doctor (2019).