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Research Seminars 2008-9 |
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If
playing expressively is central to music making, how do you teach and assess
it?
Christopher
Gayford
Conservatoires like the
RNCM are in the business of training world-class musicians. To achieve
this students have to master their instruments or voices technically, and learn
to perform expressively. Learning technique could broadly be seen as
synonymous with training to be a craftsman, and expressivity with becoming an
artist, but how do you teach people to become artists, and how can you assess
them?
The conductor Christopher
Gayford has spent the last 12 years exploring these questions in a wide range
of contexts, including numerous audience development projects, and extensive
studies at TCM and RNCM. At this seminar, he’s going to outline
some of the theories and techniques he has developed in order to enhance
expressivity, and report on aspects of the research he carried out at RNCM with
Dr Jane Ginsborg.
Friday 27 February 2.00-3.00pm
in the Lecture Theatre
Admission
is free and all are welcome!
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