Nesrin Kalyoncu obtained her bachelor’s degree from the Gazi University and her masters degree from the Abant İzzet Baysal University (AİBU) in Turkey. In 2001, she completed her doctorate in Music Pedagogy with a secondary emphasis in Musicology and Education Sciences at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. Currently, she is head of the Department for Fine Arts Education at AİBÜ where she also works in the Music Education Division. She has numerous publications in various subject areas of Music Pedagogy and has served since 2011 as an elected board member of the European Association for Music in Schools (EAS).