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  Polish Vocal Baroque Music (2016) author(s): Aldona Bartnik Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : KC Research Portal
  This research paper work is dedicated to Polish Vocal Baroque Music. I divide my work into two main sections that I find as an essential elements of education process. The first one is typical academic work, based mostly on reading all the collected materials, while the second part is method concerns my own artistic work. Promotion and indication the high quality music from Poland are the main objects of this research, where I focus on interplay between European countries and Poland. In a progress of my explorations I describe most commonly used music styles easily found in the eastern compositions. Also biographies and chosen sacred works by Polish composers are presented here. These pieces of information are preceded by giving the very essential information about social and historical background. This step makes clearer the general point of view into subject. The second section of my research is an effect of artistic work within my Master Course. It concerns mostly cooperation with the Wrocław Baroque Ensemble with whom I have recorded CD’s and performed lot of Polish repertoire form Baroque. The method contains also organizational work that was done for preparing concerts promoting Polish music in the Netherlands. As a result of this research I have discovered influences from the Western Europe that had an impact on Polish Music. It was surprisingly much more European roots in Poland, than I had suspected before I started my exploration. I have also realized how valuable is history of music in early ages in Poland and how easily visible is high quality of Polish music. All these conclusion approached me to give more mature performances based on deeper understanding of general situation in the European music in Baroque era.
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• Stanislavsky's system for musicians (2016) author(s): Anastasia Feruleva Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : KC Research Portal
  The system of a famous russian theatre director, actor and pedagogue Konstantin Stanislavski was created for actors to draw believable emotions to their performances. It is a whole set of exercises to be practised daily in order to control better such uncontrollable aspects as emotions, inspiration, improvisation at the moment. Some principals seemed for me familiar with those we as musicians are trying to learn. In my research I wanted to see the connection between the theatre and the music worlds and to try to see whether these system is applicable for musicians and in which way.
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• PROKOFIEV’S SECOND PIANO CONCERTO FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A PERFORMER (2016) author(s): Anto Dimitrov Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : KC Research Portal
  Name: Anto Dimitrov Main Subject: Piano Research supervisor: Theo Verbey Title of Research: Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto from the perspective of a performer Research question: What are some creative and technical approaches to the challenging passages of the Second Piano Concerto by Sergey Prokofiev and what could be done to speed up the learning process? Summary of results: Since last quart of 20th century, Second Piano Concerto by Sergey Prokofiev have been one of the most popular choice in top piano competitions final rounds such as: Queen Elisabeth (Bruxelles), Tchaikovsky (Moscow), Rubinstein (Tel Aviv) and etc. For many artists, it is considered to be one of the most challenging concertos in piano literature and one of favorite choice to perform from Prokofiev. After performing this concerto, I realized that it is very important to have some methods to keep the piece in high performance standard. I saw that it is not possible to be limited with general piano playing traditions for fingering because of non-standardly written passages. By switching the lines on both hands we can make it much more comfortable to perform. Also by analyzing both the orchestral and solo part, we can have more clear idea about the role of the piano solo. Such a great artists recordings as Emil Gilels, Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich who were friends and the first interpreters of several compositions of Prokofiev are the closest references for the idea of his music. Biography: He started his piano education at the age of ten at Antalya Conservatory with Samir Mirzoev. At the age of thirteen he performed his first concert with orchestra. During 2004-2005 concert seasons he attended to the 23th April “Wonder Children” concert organized by Presidency State Symphony Orchestra. He won several awards at several competitions. Some of these are: 
 • First prize and Grand Prix at Third Varna International Piano Competition (2006)
 • Second prize at Bach Competition Plovdiv 2011 
 • Third prize at Young Virtuosos Sofia 2012
 In 2012 he successfully completed his bachelor education at Sofia New Bulgarian University under Prof. Milena Mollova. Since September 2014 he is studying master in Royal Conservatorium Den Haag with Prof. Naum Grubert.
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• Perfect Pitch: How does it influence my aural imagination as a jazz singer? (2016) author(s): Liesbeth Gieben Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : KC Research Portal
  Name: Liesbeth Gieben Main subject: Jazz Vocals Research Supervisor: Patrick Schenkius Research Title: Perfect Pitch! Research question: How does perfect pitch influence my aural imagination as a jazz singer?
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  How can guitar players combine Jazz and Soul music in their playing? (2016) author(s): Daniel Yves Dudok Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : KC Research Portal
  Jazz and Soul. Guitar players nowadays are busy with combining more styles in their playing. Not innovative. Guitar players like George Benson, Kenny Burrell or Cornell Dupree were playing one particular style, with a litlle bit of an other style. I would like to combine some Soul techniques, accompaniments and solo with some Jazz techniques, accompaniments and solo. Maybe interesting for other guitar players or musicians? That is where I am looking for Main subject: Jazz guitar Master coach: Enno Voorhorst Master circle leader: Yvonne Smeets Teachers: Wim Bronnenberg, Eef Albers Head department: Wouter Turkenburg Royal Conservatory, The Hague Date presentation: 6th of april 2016, 11.30-12.30 At the Royal Conservatory
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• Contemporary Percussion Education (2016) author(s): Antonio Pierna Garcia Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : KC Research Portal
  Name: Antonio Pierna Research supervisors: Patrick van Deurzen and Ewan Gibson. Title of the research: Contemporary Percussion Education Research questions: -How is the situation of contemporary classical percussion education today? -What are the possibilities of teaching contemporary classical music to young children? Summary of results: In 2014 when I started teaching music to two young students, I started questioning myself what were my possibilities to teach contemporary music to them. I realized that I didn't had that kind of training in my former education so I decided to discover if this could be a general problem. After analyzing some ideas and projects done on this topic, I created different activities based on different pieces from the repertoire of my Master, using two big topics: John Cage and electronic music. I tried the activities with my students and the result was very satisfactory. This and the perception of a lack of contemporary music in the educational system, encourages me to continue discovering the possibilities of contemporary music education for young students. Format of presentation: research paper. Biography: Antonio Pierna was born in Valladolid (Spain) in 1991. During his percussion studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castilla y León, he developed his interest in orchestral and contemporary music and collaborated with professional orchestras like Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y Leon and Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia. In 2011 he started at The Royal Conservatory of The Hague (KC), where he finished his Bachelor in 2014 and where he corrently studies an orchestral master, together with the Residentie Orkest. Antonio has collaborated with Slagwerk Den Haag, Asko Schoenberg, Ludwig Ensemble or the Eighteen Century Orchestra.
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