Monday 27 February 2017
Lecture Recital Room, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DT
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm:
Research Masterclass led by Professor Mieko Kanno (Sibelius Academy,
Helsinki; CMPS Visiting Fellow) working with doctoral students in the field
of practice-led research: Nazrin Rashidova (Royal Academy of Music) and
Kiana Shafiei (Royal Northern College of Music).
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TICKETS: Admission free. This event is open to current postgraduate students
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6:00 pm to 7:00 pm:
Performance as Research Method - presentation in the Guildhall School's
Research Works Series
Mieko Kanno focuses on the act of 'performing' as a method for gaining
insight into music, and its relation to the other types of insight that a
broad range of music studies offers.
TICKETS: Admission free. Booking required at www.gsmd.ac.uk
These events are organised by the Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance
Studies in conjunction with the Institute of Musical Research and the
Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
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Tuesday 28 February 2017
Recital Room, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge
11 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm:
How to Produce a Better Performance in the Shortest Possible Time -
Lecture-Recital
The eminent violinist and teacher Mieko Kanno (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki;
CMPS Visiting Fellow) examines performance as a laboratory-based practice
and in terms of the skills involved in delivering it. Referring to examples
in the performance of contemporary music in particular, she considers the
nature of these skills, their function, their conventions, the hierarchies
within them, and their role as 'tools' that can be used for musical
exploration. Issues to be discussed include the idea of optimisation, the
significance of stylistic knowledge and skills, and critical path strategy.
While the immediate goal of the enquiry is to address the 'distance' between
conceptual claim (or desire) and actual practice, the overarching aim is to
come closer to identifying conditions for action, in other words
understanding criteria for 'what works' and 'why it works' in musical
performance.
TICKETS: Admission free; no advance booking necessary.
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