String Forum: Practising Practice

A/ Prof. Goetz Richter, convenor

March 22, 6.30 pm Seminar Room 1156 
<H4 CLASS="MsoNormal">Practising practice: This seminar explores the important topic of practice. Practice is easily the most crucial element in the development of a performing musician. How do we develop it and how can teachers help students transform their habits and work? In this session we want to explore some fundamentals of performance learning, foundational elements of practice and ways to motivate students to establish productive and effective practice habits. While teachers and parents variously plead, coax or bully students to practice in a conflict laden dialogue that easily turns dysfunctional, crucial points of this activity often remain entirely vague to the student who, unsurprisingly may detach himself from any commitment and urgency. Developing the skills that sustain successful performance implies in the first instance that we understand how principles of motivation and musical and technical accomplishment are related, how the nature of performance determines its learning and what kind of thinking and skill actually sustains successful performance on stage. Understanding these elements can dissolve much of the anxiety, urgency and confusion surrounding practice. The outcomes of this seminar will be concrete, useful and practical!</H4>
Presented in collaboration with AUSTA (NSW) - Free Admission 
Goetz Richter is Associate Professor for Violin at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. An experienced performer, orchestral leader, recitalist, chamber musician and soloist, Goetz has held leadership positions in Australian Orchestras (Sydney & Melbourne Symphony) for near two decades before being appointed to the Sydney Conservatorium where he teaches performance students, supervises research candidatures and gives lectures on the methodology of instrumental pedagogy and the philosophy of music. His extensive pedagogical work includes leadership of community string teaching projects such as the Kendall String Project and the Riverina Summer School for Strings, regular international masterclasses, most recently in China and Singapore and presentations at conferences, seminars and workshops in Australia and New Zealand.

Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney

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