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MA Voice Pedagogy Alumna, Anupa Paul will present her paper at the Body, Mind & Music Symposium!

Sunday 24th March 2024

We are pleased to announce that MA Voice Pedagogy Alumna, Anupa Paul will present her paper at the Body, Mind & Music Symposium!

The event is hosted by The Austrian Society for Music and Medicine (ÖGfMM) and the Department of Music Physiology. It will take place at the Vienna Music University from April 11th to 13th 2024.

Anupa’s presentation is titled ‘Acceptance and Commitment Coaching for Music Performance Anxiety in Adolescent Singers’, which coincides with the goal of the event; to discuss the latest research developments in health and wellbeing for musicians.

Congratulations, Anupa!

A photo of Anupa Paul who will present at the Body, Mind & Music Symposium in Vienna!

Anupa Paul

Anupa Paul is a voice coach, singing performance coach and choral trainer. She completed her MA Voice Pedagogy with a distinction from Voice Study Center and UWTSD in 2022. 


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