Brazil’s Dr. Hentschke in residence this week in the Glenn Korff School of Music

calendar icon07 Apr 2015    

Dr. Liane Hentschke from Porto Alegre, Brazil is in residence in the Glenn Korff School of Music Music Education program this week. Hentschke heads all graduate programs in music at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and is Past President of the International Society for Music Education.

Hentschke is a Professor of Music Education at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She also has served as the Director of Institutional Cooperation of CNPq, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil, Past President of ISME (International Society of Music education), Previous Vice-President of IMC (International Music Council) and Head of the International Affairs Office at UFRGS. At the UFRGS, she teaches at the undergraduate and graduate level, supervising MA and PhD students, and is chair of the research group FAPROM (Education and Professional Practice of Musicians and Music Teachers).

Her research interests include the areas of teacher education, formal and informal music education, and motivation to learn and teach music. Her publications include 16 books, book chapters, prefaces and refereed articles published in Brazil, England, Australia, Argentina, Hong Kong, Germany, and Spain. She has been a member of the Arts and Music Higher Education Committee at the Brazilian Ministry of Education between 1995 and 2000.