CMPCP's research programme features four complementary projects that feed into a fifth project synthesising their respective outcomes. Together all five explore how knowledge is transformed into practice in musical performance, and vice versa; the ways in which such practice is creative; the status of musical performance as a creative practice in disparate cultures, idioms (e.g. pop/classical) and performance conditions (e.g. solo versus ensemble, or in the practice room, recording studio or concert hall); the roles that diverse participants – including composers, performers, teachers, listeners and producers – play in creating music through, and as, performance; and how the understanding of musical performance as a creative practice challenges the assumptions and premises of a traditional musicology structured around compositions.