Margarida Barbal
Department of Education and Artistic Mediation
Eines didàctiques de consciència corporal
Formació corporal i comunicació II
Practicum de Pedagogia I
Practicum de Pedagogia II
Formació corporal i comunicació I
Seminari de didàctica
Title of Singing Teacher from the Conservatori Superior de Música Municipal de Barcelona. Singing and clarinet studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Concurrently trained in various body and psychophysical techniques, mainly: Seitai, Cos-art, movement anatomy, Kundalini Yoga, and free dance.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the UB, a postgraduate degree in Speech Therapy intervention in voice disorders from the URL and a Diploma in Focusing from the IEFCA.
- Synthesis between sensory experience and the anatomical and physiological basis of movement and the vocal performance.
- Fluency in the artistic, creative, and learning experiences.
- Music teaching and learning based on sensory experience.
- Emotional management in an artistic and teaching-learning contexts.
- Application of humanistic psychology tools in music education.
- Focusing and presence in musical performance.
- Breathing in the professional practice of wind instrument and vocal performers. Breathing didactics.
Research Projects:
- Focusing i presència en la interpretació musical (ongoing)
- Cantar Hildegarda de Bingen. Proposal for an experiential introduction to the musical world of said author (Bingen 2012, Barcelona, Scotland and the Netherlands 2013).
- Docència reflexiva. Work team with Xavier Barbeta and Ester Momblant. ESMUC 2012-2013.
- Shared teaching in body awareness training for musicians.
- Tàndem Project ESMUC - Escola Catalunya de Sant Adrià de Besòs.
Articles
- Barbal Rodoreda, M. and Aguadé Benet, RM (2014). What can we learn from singing the music of Hildegard. A A. Esser (Coord.) Hildegard von Bingen als Kirchenlehrerin. Bad Kreuznach: Edition Scivias.
- The music of Hildegard von Bingen (2017). Retrieved November 2, 2018, from http://www.scivias-institut.de/index.php/hildegard-of-bingen.html
Communications
- Ávila, R. Barbal, M. García, L. Kleiman, V, Momblant, E and Mora M. (2011). Shared Teaching in Body-mind training for Music students. Teaching team of corporal subjects. ESMUC from 2009 to 2011. Presented at the ICON (Innovative Conservatoire Seminar) in Helsinki. May 2011.
Books and audio and/or image recordings
- Lumière vivante. Margarida Barbal, cant. Catherine Weidemann, cítara. Cants d’Hildegarda de Bingen i improvisacions. Freiburg 2016.
- http://www.psalmos.com/blog.html
- O virga ac diadema. Workshop at Hildegard Gedächtniskirche. Film production: Eric Nohl. Bingen. Oct. 2012.
- Martínez Prat, J. and Barbal, M. (2010). Tia-ia-ó Cançons, jocs i danses pel lleure. Songs with didactic proposals and CD. Barcelona: Dinsic.
Member of the vocal group Auditexaudi and previously of Scivias, Seu de la Saviesa, Cor Madrigal, and Música Ficta.
From 1992 to 2012, she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Musical Expression Didactics at the UAB. Part of the teaching team at the Escola de Pedagogia Musical (Mètode Ireneu Segarra). She has been an advisor in concerts for schoolchildren for the Fundació La Caixa and Pedagogía de'Espectacle. She has directed children's and youth choirs, including La Quitxalla, Cor Albada, La Nau, Coral Sant Gregori, and Cor de Noies de Adamàris at the EMM Carles Vidiella in Arenys de Mar.