Rate My Professor Eugenia Costa-Giomi

Eugenia Costa-Giomi is a Professor of Music Education, Associate Director, and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Music at The Ohio State University, where she joined the faculty in 2015. She holds the title of Distinguished Professor of the Academy of Teaching and serves as an associate researcher at the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy. Previously, she was Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of Music and Human Learning at the University of Texas at Austin, with an affiliation as Professor in Developmental Psychology. Earlier positions include Associate Professor and Head of Music Education at McGill University in Canada, as well as teaching music in public schools and educational institutions in Argentina, Canada, and Mexico. She earned her Ph.D. in Music Education from The Ohio State University in 1991, completed graduate studies in piano and music education at Indiana University from 1986 to 1988, and received the degree of Profesora Superior de Música from the National Conservatory of Buenos Aires in 1984.

Her research specializations encompass music perception and cognition in childhood, non-musical benefits of music instruction, music learning and development, and the cognitive, social, and health benefits of music participation. Key publications include "The Effects of Three Years of Piano Instruction on Children's Cognitive Development" (Journal of Research in Music Education, 1999), "Effects of Three Years of Piano Instruction on Children's Academic Achievement, School Performance and Self-Esteem" (Psychology of Music, 2004), "Piano Lessons of Beginning Students Who Persist or Drop Out" (Journal of Research in Music Education, 2005), "The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Music Instruction on Intelligence and General Cognitive Abilities" (Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2015), and "Infant Vocal Imitation of Music" with L. Benetti (Journal of Research in Music Education, 2020). Costa-Giomi has secured grants and fellowships from organizations such as the GRAMMY Foundation, National Piano Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and various Ohio State University initiatives. She has contributed to editorial boards including the Journal of Research in Music Education, Psychology of Music, and Empirical Musicology Review, and chaired the Society for Research in Music Education, the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, the Music Perception SRIG of MENC, and the Early Childhood SRIG of NAfME.