Biography

Beatriz Ilari joined the USC Thornton School of Music in 2011, following appointments at the Federal University of Paraná - Brazil (2003-2010, Associate Professor of Music Education), and the University of Texas in Austin (2010, Lozano Long Associate Visiting Professor). She has taught violin, strings and general music in schools and community-based programs in the United States, the Czech Republic, and Brazil. Her research has been published in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Education Research, Research Studies in Music Education, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Early Child Development and Care, Tavira (Spain), Revista da APEM (Portugal) and Revista da ABEM (Brazil).  She now serves as co-editor of the International Journal of Music Education, the research publication of the International Society of Music Education (ISME). 

Professional Experience

Research Interests:

• music perception and cognition
• music in early childhood
• alternative approaches to music teaching and learning
• music in everyday life of children and adults in different cultures and contexts
• the social psychology of music

Publications:
Peer-reviewed articles

• Ilari, B., Moura, A. & Bourscheidt, L. (2011). Between interactions and commodities: Musical parenting of infants and toddlers in Brazil. Music Education Research, 13(1), 51-67.
• Ilari, B. (2010). A community of practice of student-teachers in music: the case of Musicalização Infantil. Research Studies in Music Education, 32(1), 43-60.
• Ilari, B.S. & Sundara, M. (2009). Musical listening preferences in early life: Infant responses to accompanied versus unaccompanied singing.  Journal of Research in Music Education, 56 (4), 357-369.

Books

• Ilari, B. (2009). Babies un-Ravel music: Preferences and long-term memory for complex music in infancy. Saarbrücken, Germany: Verlag VDM. (ISBN 978-3-639-16079-6).
• Ilari, B. (2009). Música na infância e adolescência: um livro para pais, professores e aficionados [Music in childhood and adolescence: a book for parents, teachers and aficionados]. Curitiba, Brazil: Editora IBPEX. (ISBN 978-85-7838-315-2) (In Portuguese)

Academic Degrees

• PhD in music education, McGill University, 2002
• M.A. in violin, Montclair State University, 1998
• B.A. in music education, University of São Paulo, 1994