Férdia's book on Musical Beauty is forthcoming with Wipf and Stock Cascade Imprint
Férdia combines performance, research and teaching. She thereby aims to explore the many facets of musical experience, including the intellectual and the physical.
Férdia gained a doctorate, entitled Musical Meaning and the Resonance of the Material, from the University of Cambridge (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board). Whilst completing this she undertook a Masters in Music Performance at Trinity College of Music, London, for which she was awarded a scholarship. Here she specialised in recorder within the early music faculty.
Férdia is the Collard Fellow of The Worshipful Company of Musicians for 2009-2010.