The London International Piano Symposium 2024
Rethinking Piano Performance: The Embodied Mind
OUR OBJECTIVE
Pianists routinely encounter a great variety of bodily and intellectual demands in preparing piano works for performance, but, even to this day, piano pedagogy and piano performance continue to labour under the inheritance of that part of Western philosophy which separates the performer’s mind – and its ability to reason – from perception and bodily movement. Thus, future symposia will seek to supplant this established belief, and show that while the mind is self-evidently the site of mental phenomena, it is also fully embodied.
APPRECIATION
Prof. Elaine Chew writes: Cristine MacKie [Director of the London International Piano Symposium] ‘does it again …[by pulling] off the third annual London International Piano Symposium, this time back at the Royal Academy of Music (2018). The conference brought together pianists, pedagogues, and researchers from around the world. I immensely enjoyed the great company—all the laughter, good food, beautiful music—and carefully curated single-track series of interesting talks on all aspects of piano performance. Thank you, Cristine!
The London International Piano Symposium (LIPS) is charitable organization (for tax purposes) with an educational platform, which is committed to enabling world-leading research at the interface between the sciences, medicine and the art of piano performance.
Partnerships & Association with Steinway Hall, London
Charity Reference No: EW29056
Email: c.mackie@londoninternationalpianosymposium.co.uk
