Sofia Serra

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 Researcher at Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (INET-MD), from Aveiro University, in the areas of Music Education, Psychology of Music and Performance with projects on voice, performance anxiety, and music education, with publications in these areas. She leads the MUS-A Project, Anxiety in the Musical Performance of Adolescents, funded by FCT between 2023 and 2026.

She was the coordinator of the Master’s in Music Education and the Postgraduate Program in Sacred Music and Advanced Training, and taught at the School of Arts of the Catholic University of Portugal (Porto) from 2002 to 2023. She collaborates regularly with the University of Saint Joseph (Macau) and taught at ESML (Lisbon).

Her performance career includes opera, oratorio, and solo recitals, including performances for the BBC Proms Festival broadcast on BBC Radio 3. She won 2nd prize at the Tracy Chadwell Competition (London) and the 2nd Young Entrepreneurs XXI Award with a cultural opera project.