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Subject: RNCM Conference: Teaching, Learning and Performing Music
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Date: Wed, January 18, 2006 12:10 pm
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Call for papers
Teaching, Learning and Performing Music
Saturday 1 July – Sunday 2 July 2006
Royal Northern College of Music, 124 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9RD, UK
This conference launches the new Research Centre for the Vocational
Training of Musicians at the RNCM. Professor Richard Parncutt (University
of Graz, Austria) and Professor John Sloboda (Keele University) will be
giving keynote lectures, and there will be a keynote symposium on expert
musicians’ preparation for performance organised by Professor Roger
Chaffin (University of Connecticut, USA).
Conference themes
Enhancing instrumental and vocal teaching
Chamber music and small-group music making
Professional development for musicians and by musicians
Practice as research (see workshop, below)
Workshop
Palatine will host a workshop, The Performer as Researcher: Practice as
Research, on Sunday 2 July 2006 between 11.00am and 3.30pm. This event is
free. Presenters are invited to consider the following topics:
1. Appropriate research questions for performer-researchers;
2. Appropriate methods for gathering and analysing data;
3. Ways of resolving potential conflicts between the dual roles of
performer and researcher.
Call for papers
We welcome submissions for oral and poster presentations, at both the main
conference and the workshop, from academics, practitioners (performers and
teachers) and postgraduate students reporting research in progress.
Titles, abstracts (up to 200 words) and up to four keywords should be
submitted by Wednesday 1 March 2006 to Dr Jane Ginsborg at the RNCM or via
e-mail ([log in to unmask]).
- Please provide your name, affiliation and e-mail address.
- Please make it clear whether your submission is for the main conference
or for the workshop.
- Please specify the theme or topic to which your submission relates.
You will be notified as to whether your paper has been accepted for
presentation at the conference by Friday 31 March 2006. Details of how to
register and book accommodation will be available on the RNCM website from
the beginning of April 2006. A peer-reviewed on-line journal is to be
launched by the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in 2006-
2007; it will include a selection of papers presented at the conference.
Please contact Dr Jane Ginsborg or Dr Antonia Ivaldi
([log in to unmask]) for further information.
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