Projects

In February 2023 the musical enhancement project “Crescendo in Musica” started at the Primary School of Pietralacroce-Istituto Comprensivo Augusto Scocchera a.s. 2022-2023. The teacher Silvia Moretti is accompanying all the classes through a musical journey that includes listening activities, musical analysis and choral activity. The children’s choir prepared by Prof. Silvia Moretti will accompany the theatrical performance of the Quinte classes of the Primary Pietralacroce on 5 June 2023 at 18:30 at the Experimental Theater of Ancona and will perform in concert on 7 June at 18:00 at the Polo-functional Center of Pietralacroce.

This project aims to develop a curriculum of passive and active music-making activities for training dementia care and social workers and informal carers, and an original music-based non-pharmacological intervention to improve behaviour, mood and quality of life. life of older people with dementia and delay as much as possible further decline in cognitive function. This educational program responds to several needs: those of dementia care professionals, who seek more effective methods and techniques to deal with dementia patients, and of the latter to be heard and understood, to communicate through a universal language, to maintain residual cognitive abilities, and to improve their quality of life. Other SOUND targets are informal carers, who need to continue training and acquire new skills to better manage their loved ones in everyday life, and the wider community, which can be more easily sensitized and educated to accept and interact with patients with dementia.

SOUND aims to improve the behaviour, mood and quality of life of elderly people living with dementia and to preserve residual cognitive functions for as long as possible, including memory, through musical activities in a circle (Circleactivities). To achieve it, musicians, healthcare professionals and researchers will design:

a) a training curriculum aimed at health professionals and informal caregivers (mostly family members) on the use of musical activities adapted to the specific needs of the target audience;

b) an intervention protocol for elderly people with dementia and informal caregivers based on Circle Activities that will be tested with the elderly;

c) a digital platform for cooperative learning, for use by health and social workers, the elderly and informal caregivers;

d) a European awareness campaign based on the musical performances performed and recorded during the intervention with the elderly people and with the young students of the music schools involved in the project, with the aim of contributing to the education of dementia-friendly communities.

In February 2023 the musical enhancement project “Crescendo in Musica” started at the Primary School of Pietralacroce-Istituto Comprensivo Augusto Scocchera a.s. 2022-2023. The teacher Silvia Moretti is accompanying all the classes through a musical journey that includes listening activities, musical analysis and choral activity. The children’s choir prepared by Prof. Silvia Moretti will accompany the theatrical performance of the Quinte classes of the Primary Pietralacroce on 5 June 2023 at 18:30 at the Experimental Theater of Ancona and will perform in concert on 7 June at 18:00 at the Polo-functional Center of Pietralacroce.

SILVIA MORETTI, born in 1996, approaches the world of music for the first time at the age of 5, when she joins the children’s choir of the Pergolesi school in Jesi. At the age of 10 she began studying piano and at the age of 13 she was admitted to the “Rossini” Conservatory in Pesaro, where she attended the pre-academic and academic course of classical piano. In the 2019/2020 academic year he obtained a three-year degree in Classical Piano. Also at the “Rossini” Conservatory in Pesaro, he specialized in the two-year Master Collaborator, graduating with honors in the academic year 2021/2022. At the same time, he obtained a three-year degree in Educational Sciences with honors from the “Carlo Bo” University of Urbino and followed courses in choral conducting, musical pedagogy and Renaissance and Baroque singing. For several years he has been involved in the direction of various polyphonic choirs and children’s voices and is currently a piano teacher in various music schools.

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