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Randi Margrethe Eidsaa and Mariam Kharatyan

Published On

2024-05-27

Page Range

pp. 251–270

Language

  • English

Print Length

20 pages

10. Rethinking Music Performance Education through the Lens of Today’s Society

Chapter of: Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education: Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research(pp. 251–270)
This chapter aims to provide insights into the perspectives that arose from the data collection and analysis carried out by the Norwegian team of the Erasmus+ project REACT - Rethinking Music Performance in European Higher Education Music Institutions. The data was collected through a series of small-scale studies, including REACT - network activity at the University of Agder and the Academy of Music in Oslo, and an analysis of reports following the participation of a group of fourteen music performance students in a creative ensemble project at the University of Agder. We also refer to a small curriculum study conducted at the University of Agder. The study addressed some of the educational demands that emerged from extensive international research on music performance curricula and pedagogy in Higher Music Education during the early, mid, and late 2010s.
The chapter highlights novel approaches to music performance, including community-based perspectives, creative ensemble collaborations, and improvisation in students' music education. These approaches aim to address the challenges that students face when pursuing professional careers in music today. The discussion sheds light on the ways in which music education curricula can be strengthened to support students entering their professional music careers and to broaden their musical thinking, thus preparing them to become contributors in society. The chapter references the small-scale research project Music for Microsculptures, an interdisciplinary student concert that reflects the results of data analysis and aspects often commented on in research on music performance curricula in Higher Education.

Contributors

Randi Margrethe Eidsaa

(author)
Professor of Music Pedagogy at University of Agder
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0598-6062

Randi Margrethe Eidsaa is a professor of music pedagogy at the University of Agder. She holds a PhD from the Danish University School of Education in Copenhagen. She teaches musicology, music history, concert production and music didactics at the Department of Classical Music and Music Education. Eidsaa is affiliated with the research network Art in Context at the University of Agder and a leader of the research group Art and Conflict. In recent years, she has collaborated with partner institutions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Israel, and Palestine. She has directed several artistic projects in different educational contexts and published articles on creative approaches to music-making. She is a member of the Norwegian team in the Erasmus Plus projects BAIL - Business and Art Innovation (2022 – 2025) and REACT Rethinking Music Performance in European Higher Education Institutions (2020 – 2023).

Mariam Kharatyan

(author)

The Armenian-Norwegian pianist Mariam Kharatyan performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician and has appeared at festivals and concerts with orchestras in Sweden, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lithuania, the USA, and Armenia. She has two Master's degrees in piano performance – from the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan, Armenia, and the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway. From 2015-2019 Kharatyan worked on her artistic research Ph.D. project Armenian Fingerprints, interpreting the piano music of Komitas and Khachaturian in light of Armenian folk music. In 2019 she released two albums - Khachaturian, Chamber Music, and Komitas, Shoror published with Simax Classics and Grappa Musikkforlag. Kharatyan is a member of the project REACT - Rethinking Music Performance in European Higher Education Institutions, 2020-2023, funded by ERASMUS+ and the European Commission. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Music and Music Education at the University of Agder, Norway.