Biography
Katarine Araújo is a researcher, teacher, pianist, and conductor. She is a doctoral student in the Music Doctoral Program at the University of Aveiro (Portugal), specializing in Orchestral Conducting. Her project focuses on academic training in higher education in Brazil and Portugal. She holds a Master's in Performance/Orchestral Conducting from the Federal University of Goiás (Brazil). Katarine won the II Young Conductors Competition at Theatro Municipal de São Paulo, where she served as an assistant conductor with the Orquestra Experimental de Repertório in 2016. In 2018, she also worked as an assistant at the USP graduation choir and the Brazilian Mozarteum Academic Orchestra. As a guest conductor, she led the Orquestra Sinfônica de Santo André, Orquestra Sinfônica da Paraíba, and the Orquestra do Theatro São Pedro, all in São Paulo - Brazil. From 2018 to 2020, she was a substitute professor at the Federal University of Goiás, teaching conducting, complementary piano, and music internships. From 2017 until October 2021, she served as the principal director of the Coro Sinfônico de Goiânia. With the Symphony Choir, she dedicated herself to promoting and premiering Brazilian works and 20th-century cappella repertoire. In June 2020, she initiated the "Tópicos de Regência" (Conducting Topics) project, using social media to disseminate content about choral and instrumental conducting studies.
Doctoral Project
Title
"A formação académica do/a maestro/a no ensino superior: As lacunas entre os currículos e a atuação no Brasil e em Portugal"
Advisor
Co-advisor
Tais Lobosque Aquino
Abstract
The research focuses on the academic training of professionals in Brazil and Portugal. In my role as a conducting professor at the Federal University of Goiás (2018-2020) and currently, remotely in both countries, I have observed gaps in academic training. This perception emerged from reports of students who graduated from universities but still didn't feel adequately prepared for professional practice. I believe that the curricula of these courses are disconnected from the local realities, as they were long inspired by North American models. It was in the United States, in the late 19th century, that many educators began investigating curriculum issues, leading to the emergence of a new field of study: curriculum studies (Moreira & Silva, 2002). Therefore, the objective of this research is to identify the gaps in the current curricula of these two countries, develop ways to overcome them, propose new and updated curricula, and create a platform that can contribute to supplementing these technical and organizational competencies for the training and continuous education of new conductors.
Keywords: Conductor; Orchestra conducting; Choir conducting; Band conducting; Higher education; Music curricula
