The University of Texas College of Fine Arts



Eugenia Costa-Giomi, Professor of Music and Human Learning
Director of Graduate Studies
 
Eugenia Costa-Giomi

Office (Primary):
512-471-2495
MBE 2.204B

UT Address:
The University of Texas at Austin


Austin, TX 78712-0435

Email:
costagiomi@mail.utexas.edu

Eugenia Costa-Giomi (Ph.D. Ohio State University), teaches research methods in music education, psychology of music, and musical development. Her research focuses on music perception and cognition during childhood, the nonmusical benefits of music instruction, and the relationship between specific abilities and behaviors and musical achievement.
She chaired the third International Conference in Music Perception and Cognition with Dr. Pennycook (1996), the 13th Symposium for Research in Music Behavior (1999), the Music Perception Interest Group of the Music Educators National Association (1998), is part of the editorial committees of the Journal of Research in Music Education and Musicae Scientiae, and past member of the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Music College Symposium. She has taught music to children in Argentina, Mexico, Canada, and the United States and was Associate Professor of Music Education at McGill University, Canada (1991-2002).