The research explores clarinet and bass clarinet preparation in a technologically up to date context and discusses the consequent transformation of the performer’s perceived and acknowledged identity.
This research examines adaptive performance practices in late 18th-century German chamber music, exploring historically informed performance (HIP) through historical arrangements, ensemble case…
'Fare Musica Antica (Ebraica) reinventing a usable past' is a research project centered on Jewish poems from Italian sources, and their relation to extant repertoire: both notated music from Early…
This project investigates what the philosophical en practical consequences are of a reappraisal of the 17th-and 18th-century concept of taste when it comes to general and historical performance…
Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn performs contemporary repertoire distinguished by physically decoupled notations or physical polyphonic notations, a unique and relatively recent trend in musical notation that…
The speed of rhythms in live acoustic music, literally the velocity at which notes are sounding, can be defined in absolute terms based on clock time. But there is also the perceived speed that, in…
Composers have recently integrated techniques proper to saxophone without mouthpiece attached to the neckpiece within their works. This doctoral project sheds light on the artistic possibilities,…
Research on the life and work of Giovanni Punto (1746-1803), hornplayer, composer, conductor, violinist; who traveled Europe as a virtuoso on the horn, performing his own concerti and chamber music…
This research will attempt to track all the important Cretan music elements that can be developed on the ney, and to invent new interpretative ney techniques for these.
In the search for efficient practice and optimal performance, the question musicians often ask is what should I focus on? Research from the fields of psychology and pedagogy on the subjects…
