Pula, Croatia

Dr. Sabina Vidulin is the Head of the Department of Music Pedagogy and leader of musical-pedagogical courses at the Academy of Music in Pula. She is the founder of the International Symposium of Music Pedagogues and the International Forum of Music Pedagogy Students. She has held numerous lectures and workshops throughout Croatia and abroad, and actively participated in many international conferences (Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Monte Negro, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden and The Netherlands). She wrote four books, twelve chapters in books, about sixty scientific papers published in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Monte Negro, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and Slovakia. She is the editor of a songbook, five symposia proceedings and one monograph. Vidulin is a member of editorial boards in six international scientific journals, member of the publishing committee of the publisher Helbling (Innsbruck-Esslingen-Bern-Belp) and the national coordinator for the European Association for Music in Schools. She is inovolved in the organization of international symposia in Croatia and abroad as a member of scientific committees. She reviewed books, curricula and scientific papers. She received the State Award Ivan Filipović and the award from the Croatian Society of Music and Dance Pedagogues.

Schools@Concerts project in Croatia

The Croatian project took place at April 10th 2018 in Zagreb, In the Music Week for Youth (Tjedan glazbe za mlade) at the Concert Hall Vatroslav Lisinski, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra under the guidance of conductor Tonči Bilić, realized the concert titled: “Impressionism in Music”, playing Claude Debussy’s and Božidar Kunc’s art-works. The concert lasted one hour.

The three parties included into the research in Croatia were: pupils and music teacher from the compulsory school from Slavonski Brod and the host Croatian Music Youth (Hrvatska glazbena mladež).

The research encompassed 36 pupils: 20 of them are girls, 14 boys and 2 of them signed as undecided. The children are 12 to 15 years-old: mostly fourteen (16), thirteen (9), fifteen (7) and twelve (4). They attend 6th to 8th grades of compulsory school: 22 pupils attend the 8th grade, 9 the 7th grade, 5 the 6th grade.

The music teacher has 24 years of teaching experience, gives regular lessons from 4th to 8th grades and organizes extracurricular musical activities.

After getting acquainted with the research goal and tasks, research materials (questionnaires for pupils, questions for pupils’ and teacher interviews), method of examining and writing results by the Croatian project lead, the teacher established the teachers’ group who supported the project realization. Pupils and teachers traveled by bus from Slavonski Brod to Zagreb at the concert hall Vatroslav Lisinski.

More information: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sabina_Vidulin