Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education: Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research - cover image

Copyright

Helen Julia Minors; Stefan Östersjö; Gilvano Dalagna; Jorge Salgado Correia. Copyright of individual chapters are maintained by the chapter author(s).

Published On

2024-05-27

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-272-3
Hardback978-1-80511-273-0
PDF978-1-80511-274-7
HTML978-1-80511-277-8
EPUB978-1-80511-275-4

Language

  • English

Print Length

340 pages (viii+332)

Dimensions

Paperback178 x 24 x 254 mm(7.01" x 0.94" x 10")
Hardback178 x 27 x 254 mm(7.01" x 1.06" x 10")

Weight

Paperback801g (28.25oz)
Hardback1020g (35.98oz)

Media

Illustrations34
Tables11
Videos11

OCLC Number

1436684859

LCCN

2021388822

THEMA

  • YPAD
  • AVS

BISAC

  • EDU029050
  • EDU057000
  • MUS041000

LCC

  • MT18

Keywords

  • Higher Music Performance Education
  • Music pedagogy
  • Interpretation and performance research
  • Student-centred approaches
  • Music industry
  • Student-centered approaches

Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education

Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research

Higher Music Performance Education, as taught and learned in universities and conservatoires in Europe, is undergoing transformation. Since the nineteenth century, the master-apprentice pedagogical model has dominated, creating a learning environment that emphasises the development of technical skills rather than critical and creative faculties. This book contributes to the renewal of this field by being the first to address the potential of artistic research in developing student-centred approaches and greater student autonomy. This potential is demonstrated in chapters illustrating artistic research projects that are embedded within higher music education courses across Europe, with examples ranging from instrumental tuition and ensemble work to the development of professional employability skills and inclusive practices.

Bringing together diverse and experienced voices working within Higher Music Education but often also as professional performers, this edited collection pairs critical reflection with artistic insight to present new approaches to curricula for teaching interpretation and performance. It calls for greater collaboration between Higher Education and professional music institutions to create closer bonds with music industries and, thereby, improve students’ career opportunities. Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education will appeal to scholars, performers, teachers, but also students whose interests centre on innovative practices in conservatoires and music departments.

Endorsements

The breadth and depth of this impressive collection highlights the potential of artistic research in various higher education contexts and will inspire students and teachers to creatively thrive for many years to come. Universities so often insist on compartmentalising theory/practice and (even worse) research/teaching into entirely separate silos, so it’s refreshing to read a collection of multifaceted ideas that configure any such apparent boundaries as porous.

Dr John Ferguson

Head of Creative Music Technology, Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University

Contents

Introduction

(pp. 1–8)
  • Helen Julia Minors
  • Stefan Östersjö
  • Gilvano Dalagna
  • Jorge Salgado Correia
  • Gilvano Dalagna
  • Jorge Salgado Correia
  • Clarissa Foletto
  • Ioulia Papageorgi
  • Odd Torleiv Furnes
  • Stefan Östersjö
  • Helen Julia Minors

Contributors

Helen Julia Minors

(editor)
Professor and Head of the School of the Arts at York St John University

Helen Julia Minors is Professor and Head of School of the Arts at York St John University. She is also a Visiting Professor at Lulea Technical University. She was founder and original co-chair of EDI Music Studies Network. Her publications include Routledge Companion to Women's Musical; Leadership (Routledge, 2024) co-edited with Laura Hamer, Music, Dance and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2023), Artistic Research in Performance through Collaboration, co-edited with Martin Blain (Palgrave, 2020), Paul Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician, co-edited with Laura Watson (Routledge, 2019), Building Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Bridges: Where Theory Meets Research and Practice, co-edited with Pamela Burnard et al (BIBACC, 2017), and Music, Text and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2013). Recent articles and chapters have also appeared in the London Review of Education (2017/2019), Translation and Multimodality (Routledge, 2019), Opera and Translation (John Benjamins, 2020), Tibon (2022), Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions (2023) and Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology (2023).

Stefan Östersjö

(editor)
Chaired Professor of Musical Performance at Piteå School of Music at Luleå University of Technology

Stefan Östersjö is Chaired Professor of Musical Performance at Piteå School of Music, Luleå University of Technology. He received his doctorate in 2008 for a dissertation on musical interpretation and contemporary performance practice. In 2009, he became a research fellow at the Orpheus Institute. He is currently also a guest professor at Ingesund School of Music, Karlstad University of Technology, Professor II at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, and associate professor at DXARTS, University of Washington. Östersjö is a leading classical guitarist specialising in the performance of contemporary music. As a soloist, chamber musician, sound artist, and improviser, he has released more than twenty CDs and toured Europe, the USA, and Asia. He has collaborated extensively with composers and in the creation of works involving choreography, film, video, performance art, and music theatre. Between 1995 and 2012 he was the artistic director of Ensemble Ars Nova, a leading Swedish ensemble for contemporary music. As a soloist he has worked with conductors such as Lothar Zagrosek, Péter Eötvös, Pierre-André Valade, Mario Venzago, and Andrew Manze.

Gilvano Dalagna

(editor)
Assistant Professor at University of Aveiro
Invited Lecturer at Alfonso X el Sabio University

Gilvano Dalagna is invited Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro (Portugal), invited lecturer at the Alfonso X El Sabio University (Spain) and integrated researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology/Center of Studies in Music and Dance (Portugal). He concluded a European PhD (Music, with Honours and distinction) at the University of Aveiro, including an Erasmus-funded period at the University College of London Institute of Education. His current research focuses on the links between performance (as creative practice) and music education. Between 2017 and 2019 he was postdoctoral fellow at the Instituto de Etnomusicologia/Centro de Estudos e Dança (SRFH/BPD/UI72/8071/2018) and invited lecturer at the Escola de Música e Artes do Espetáculo/Instituto Politécnico do Porto. Gilvano is currently a member of the coordinating team, quality manager and phase leader for the project REACT: Rethinking Music Performance in European Higher Education Music Institutions.

Jorge Salgado Correia

(editor)
Associate Professor of Musical Performance and Artistic Creation at the Department of Communication and Art at University of Aveiro

Jorge Salgado Correia is Associate Professor of Musical Performance and Artistic Creation at the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro. He received his doctorate in 2003 for a dissertation on musical performance as embodied socio-emotional meaning construction. In 2007, he became an integrated researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology/Center of Studies in Music and Dance (Portugal) coordinating, from then until July 2022, the research group “Creation, Performance and Artistic Research”. Jorge is a leading Flautist specialised in the performance of contemporary music but regularly playing other music genres like Portuguese popular music, Tango or Brazilian Chôro. As a soloist and chamber music player, he has participated in more than 12 CDs and toured all over Europe, Latin America, (Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica), USA, Asia (Macau, Shanghai), and Africa (Mozambique). As one of the 3 artistic directors and founders of Performa Ensemble, a leading Portuguese ensemble for contemporary music, Jorge has collaborated extensively with the most prominent Portuguese composers from 2010 until today, playing and recording the première of dozens of new compositions. As conductor and artistic director he founded in 2019 the project FLUTUA, a flute orchestra which has already commissioned about 12 new compositions for its specific formation and its transdisciplinar performance approach (music, dance and staging). Jorge is currently Editor-in-Chief of ÍMPAR-Online Journal for Artistic Research and the Coordinator of the project REACT: Rethinking Music Performance in European Higher Education Music Institutions, a strategic partnership involving five countries and financed by ERASMUS+. Jorge is Director of the Doctoral Program in Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro, Portugal and president of the Portuguese Flute Association.