Key speakers to date

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Alison McGregor, Dep’t of Musculoskeletal Biodynamics, Imperial College, London.

Cristine MacKie Director of the London International Piano Symposium, will present a two-part study, entitled  ‘When Music Comes to Mind: Embodying the Performer’.   The  study aims to show how  music comes to mind  by developing a performative  analysis  of the prelude in E minor by Chopin, while revealing insights into the musculoskeletal system of the body, which produces  the appropriate movements ― based on the findings of the analysis― thus embodying the performer.