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Examples of the workshops, February 2013
Full conference programme provided under News and Events Britten Theatre RCM Background Performance science has grown considerably during the last ten years. But despite the potential for this field to inform educational and professional practice across the arts, its application in the field of piano performance has been largely neglected. This neglect is not surprising, since the area is steeped in traditional methods of performance practice, and suffers also from a mind/body dualism. These workshops will suggest that skilled pianism cannot be achieved exclusively by pursuing the traditional route, in which the student and the teacher sit side by side...
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Read MoreMusic Teacher magazine reviews Cristine MacKie’s work
The magazine the Music Teacher, published this April 2014, acknowledges Cristine MacKie as one of the foremost leading advocates in the UK of the mind/body approach to piano performance
Read MoreSample of abstracts submitted in 2013
Elaine Chew, Queen Mary, University of London Title: Explaining what musicians do, how we do it, and why; making concrete conceptualized structures and expressive (prosodic) decisions that shape musical communications using mathematical models, computational methods, and scientific visualisations Schnabel’s playing of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (15 bars) – Tempo analysis from Elaine Chew on Vimeo. Schnabel’s tempo variations in his performance of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (15 bars). Vertical grid lines mark the beginnings of each bar. The arches denote phrase and sub-phrase groupings at different hierarchical levels. In...
Read MoreSucess: Going to the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House.
The collaboration at the Royal College of Music during February last between Cristine MacKie & Jeanetta Lawrence of the Royal Ballet was so successful that the work is being presented at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on April 23rd, 24th and 26 April.
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