Creative learning and 'original' music performance

(John Rink – Cambridge)

Project overview | Project narrative | Workshops | Questionnaire | Fieldwork | Outputs

Outputs

Project outputs include workshop and conference presentations as well as publications.

Presentations

John Rink

• 'Musical creativity and/as performance', International Exchanges on Music Theory and Performance, Paris, December 2010
• Roundtable contribution at 'Stepping out of the shadows: practitioners becoming researchers'; organised by SEMPRE, Trinity-Laban and Guildhall; Guildhall School of Music & Drama, April 2011
• 'The practice of performance studies', Keynote Paper at the Royal Musical Association Postgraduate Study Day on 'Performing musicology', City University London, June 2011
• Roundtable contribution at 'Tracking the creative process in music', Lille, September 2011
• 'Musical performance as creative practice', La recherche-création en musique: Objets, savoirs, discipline, Université de Montréal, October 2011
• 'What difference does research really make?', Postgraduate Study Day, Royal Northern College of Music, November 2011

Karen Wise and Mirjam James

• paper on the project at an international symposium in June 2011 entitled 'Creativities in higher music education' which was organised by Pam Burnard (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge).The slides of this presentation can be seen here.
• Karen Wise gave a jointly authored paper on the project at the International Symposium on Performance Science (Toronto, August 2011); entitled 'Learning to be a creative performer: developing mixed methods to understand teachers' and students' approaches and constructs', this concentrated on the focus-group discussions and certain methodologies such as video-recall interviews which were used in the observational study.
• Karen Wise and Mirjam James have been invited to give a Research Seminar at the Royal Northern College of Music in March 2012 on teachers' and students' perspectives on creative learning in one-to-one lessons.

Publications

• Karen J. Wise, Mirjam James and John Rink: 'Learning to be a creative performer: developing mixed methods to understand teachers': summary in proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science (Toronto, August 2011)
•  Mirjam James, Karen J. Wise and John Rink: 'Exploring creativity in musical performance through lesson observation with video-recall interviews', Scientia Paedagogica Experimentalis (accepted; forthcoming)