Research Findings On The Effects Of Music Therapy On Hospitalized Preterm Infants And Their Caregivers, In A Greek Neonatal Intensive   Care Unit: A Pilot Study

Faiy Evaggelou completed her undergraduate degree in music at The University of Leeds (UK) and continued her music studies in postgraduate level at The university of Manchester (UK) and The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK) from which she was acquired the titles of MA Music and MA Performance studies. In 2018 she acquired her third postgraduate title on Music Therapy from The University of Macedonia (GR) and also got certified as NICU Music Therapist (level III) from The Louis Armstrong Centre of Music and Medicine. Her research interest on Music Therapy focuses on the perinatal care of hospitalized infants. She has participated as a speaker at conferences and workshops in Greece and abroad with music and music therapy talks. Her articles and interviews have been published on the Internet and on scientific journals and pages. She lives in Volos and she is working at Music School of Volos.

Lelouda Stamou is professor of music education at the Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. She is founder and director of the program of graduate studies in “Music & Society”, as well as scientific coordinator of the project “Music and culture serving health, wellbeing and social inclusion”. She is the director of the Baby Artist Early Childhood Music Program and certified instructor in the Suzuki method, in the Orff-Schulwerk approach as well as in Music Learning Theory approach. She has taught as an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has published in numerous scientific journals and she is author and editor of books in music education. She has been president of the Greek Society for Music Education for a number of years. She has been coordinator of the "MUSICDARE: Music in Creative Detoxification and Rehabilitation" Erasmus+ program (2015-2018). She is a Fulbright scholar.