Quality Practice – de kunst van het oefenen
Het doel van deze workshop is om muzikanten richtlijnen, hulpmiddelen, methoden en kennis te bieden over hoe ze moeten oefenen. De nieuwste wetenschappelijke onderzoeken onthullen wat misschien wel een van de belangrijkste geheimen is van succesvol oefenen: experimenteren. Verkenning, aandacht, zelforganisatie, motivatie en liefde voor muziek zijn de ingrediënten. Deze workshop geeft studenten praktische informatie hierover en zoekt naar nieuwe manieren om te oefenen.

Quality Practice – the Art of Practice
The purpose of this workshop is to provide musicians with guidelines, tools, methods and knowledge on how to practice. The latest scientific studies reveal what is perhaps one of the most important secrets to successful practicing: experimenting. Exploration, attention, self-organization, motivation and the love of music are the ingredients. This workshop will provide practical information to participants, and look for new ways to practice.

Lees/read: ‘Quality Practice, A musician’s guide’ (pdf)

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Dr Susan Williams is one of the world’s most well-known specialists in baroque trumpet and over the last 30 years has performed and recorded with many of Europe’s finest early music ensembles as soloist, chamber musician and in orchestral projects, as well as projects with her own ensemble Clarini. She teaches natural trumpet, as well as courses on practicing and performance preparation at The Royal Conservatorium of The Hague and at the University of the Arts in Bremen and is regularly invited to give workshops in other European institutions.

Her PhD was on the topic of attentional focus for musicians, and she followed this with research projects on mental training, self-regulated learning, and peer-learning.