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Exploring the Intersection: Freedom and Constraints in the Role of Pianists across Cross-Disciplinary Artistic Practices (2024)

Miki Barabino

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While the world is advancing swiftly with remarkable technological, scientific, and societal progress, the ways of being an instrumentalist have also been changing rapidly. One has to be creative to find their own space in a musical scene, finding the original path of learning while comprehending the overwhelming amount of information. Most of the conservatoires offering tuition in classical music are teaching in a way as if they would like to produce ‘gatekeepers’ of the classical music scene. However, with technological advancement and globalization the scene of becoming a selected few amongst performing pianists is becoming increasingly competitive and unattainable. Acquiring the flexibility to adapt and change the skills of playing an instrument has become a crucial aspect of being a professional musician in general and a pianist in particular, both to survive and to be creative in an artistic sense. It is obvious that each musical genre does not always have the same learning process and skill set required to be mastered, and therefore, I have gone through a process of facing various genres of music myself throughout these six years of studying in a conservatoire for understanding the thoughts during the musical creation process in the perception of musicians who are specified in a different fields (Jazz, Early Music, Classical Music, Contemporary Music- Ensemble and solo playing, Composition). The study consists of the use of Stimulated Recall Method, seven different video recordings of myself facing and creating music in 7 different processes analyzed using Grounded Theory. Thus, finding out more about the common and the different constraints in the creation of music from a classically trained pianist's perspective, this study reveals factors in which difficulty arises while learning to be professional as a cross-discipline pianist.
typeresearch exposition
keywordscross-disciplinary, crossdisiplinary, education, piano, pianistic expertise
date21/02/2024
published04/07/2024
last modified04/07/2024
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
copyrightMiki Kawashima
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2581827/2581828
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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