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Andrea Sangiorgio specialized in the Orff-Schulwerk approach in the years 1994-97 at the Orff-Institute for Music and Dance Education, University "Mozarteum", Salzburg, Austria, concluding his training with a work on group improvisation.
He finished his piano studies in Italy at the Conservatorio “Rossini”, Pesaro.
Since 1999 he has been integrating a cognitive approach to music pedagogy as expressed in the Music Learning Theory of Edwin Gordon within the wider, holistic frame of the Orff-Schulwerk approach.
In 2006 he got a Master degree in Ethnomusicology at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" with a thesis on "Orff-Schulwerk as Anthropology of Music". (see extract)

Since 1997 he is director and music teacher (piano, percussion, adults and children choir, ensemble music) of the CDM onlus - Centro Didattico Musicale, Rome.
He has been working as an external expert for elemental music and dance education in various nursery and primary schools. He is coordinator for the activities of the CDM in the government schools.

He is responsible for the teacher-training courses of the CDM.
Since 2002 with Valentina Iadeluca he is the organizer and director of a one-year course on Elemental Music and Dance Education according to the Orff-Schulwerk approach for music teachers who work in nursery and primary schools (200 hours). Since 2007 the course is organized in collaboration with the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

He has been co-founder of the Italian Orff-Schulwerk Association (2001) and has at the present time a tight collaboration with SIMEOS (Società Italiana Musica Elementare Orff-Schulwerk, Verona).

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Through many teacher training courses and workshops throughout Italy as well as abroad (Austria, Germany, Spain, Finland, France, Russia, Lebanon, United Kingdom, Ireland, South Corea, Czech Republic, China, Taiwan, Switzerland, Iran) he conducts an intense activity of music education training for music teachers and classroom teachers, mainly on the subjects:

• Elemental music and movement education (Orff-Schulwerk approach)
• Voice training for children
• Ensemble music for percussion instruments
• Group improvisation and music creativity
• Cognitive aspects of music learning - Music literacy

In July 2006 he has been a presenter at the Symposium Orff-Schulwerk in Salzburg, where he introduced to the international Orff community Edwin Gordon and his Music Learning Theory, furthermore illustrating in a workshop the possibilities of an inclusion of this cognitive approach to music learning within the pedagogical concept of the Orff-Schulwerk.
Together with his collegue Marco Iadeluca he presented the group "Alpha4" in a concert with Orff instruments and percussion instruments.

Within the works of the 28th ISME Conference in Italy, in July 2008 he has been Host Chair of the
XI International Seminar for Community Music Activity that has taken place in Rome at the Auditorium
Parco della Musica in collaboration with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

In March 2009 the Orff-Institute, Salzburg, has invited the CDM Centro Didattico Musicale, namely Andrea Sangiorgio and Valentina Iadeluca, to present in a guest course the main features of the music and dance projects it carries out in various nursery and primary schools in Rome and in Italy.

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He is author of various articles on elemental music education.
Among these:

Ideas from contemporary music: parametrical motifs, in: "Orff-Schulwerk Informationen" n°75 (Von der Elementaren Musik- und Tanzpädagogik zur Modernen Kunst? Winter 2005/06), edited by Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and Orff-Schulwerk Forum Salzburg, pp. 51-57 (download from the website of the Orff-Schulwerk Forum)

Zur Integration einer kognitionspsychologischen Perspektive in die Elementare Musikpädagogik, in: Malmberg, I. / Wimmer, C. (a cura di), Communicating Diversity: Musik lehren und lernen in Europa, Forum Musikpädagogik – Band 79, Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg 2007, pp. 257-261

Models of an Orff Approach Integrating Edwin Gordon’s Music Learning Theory, in: B.Haselbach / M.Grüner / S.Salmon (ed.) “In Dialogue. Elemental Music and Dance Education in Interdisciplinary Contexts. Documentation Orff-Schulwerk Symposium, Salzburg 2006”, Schott, Mainz 2007, pp. 368-375

Raccolta differenziata, (with Valentina Iadeluca) in: "Musica Domani", trimestrale di cultura e pedagogia musicale a cura della SIEM - Società Italiana per l'Educazione Musicale (n°146 - marzo 2008), Torino, pp. 6-10

Bambini al Centro: Music as a means to promote wellbeing. Birth and configuration of an experience (with Valentina Iadeluca), in: "International Journal of Community Music", Volume I, Number 3 (2008), Intellect, Bristol 2008,  pp. 311-318 (read the article on the project Bambini al Centro)
published also in: D.D.Coffman (Hrsg), “CMA XI. Projects, Perspectives, and Conversations. Proceedings from the International Society for Music Education (ISME) 2008 Seminar of the Commission for Community Music Activity”, International Society for Music Education, 2009 (printed in Tel Aviv)

Orff-Schulwerk as Anthropology of Music (translated also into Turkish: Müsik Antropolojisi Olarak Orff-Schulwerk) in: Orffinfo N.16 Winter 2010, edited by Orff-Schulwerk Egitim ve Danismanlik Merkezi Türkiye, Istanbul 2010, pp. 6-21

Thinking Music - Creating Music. An approach to Rhythm and Group Improvisation through Voice, Movement and Percussion instruments, in: "Orff-Schulwerk Informationen" n°83 (Sommer 2010), edited by Universität Mozarteum Salzburg and Orff-Schulwerk Forum Salzburg, pp. 56-61