Férdia combines performance, research and teaching. She holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge and a Masters in Music Performance from Trinity College of Music, London.

She is an accomplished and active performer of medieval, renaissance, baroque and contemporary recorder repertoire.

Férdia is also an inter-disciplinary academic working in the fields of music, philosophy and theology. Her recent book is entitled Musical Beauty: Negotiating the Boundary between Subject and Object (Cascade, Wipf and Stock, 2011).

Férdia is organizing a conference on Music and Transcendence with the support of Anglia Ruskin University. It will be held in Cambridge on November 29, 2011. The call for papers and performances is live (deadline September 16, 2011).