PEVOC is een interdisciplinaire conferentie voor zangprofessionals om kennis uit te wisselen over de menselijke stem. PEVOC vindt om de twee jaar plaats in verschillende Europese steden.

Current models of brain function indicate that sensory input is not only processed in two anatomically and functionally separate pathways, but that perception is the product of a predicting brain and not purely a representation of the input to which it has access. Sensory modalities are furthermore intertwined, …

Presentatie over leren door samenspelen op symposium over popmuziekeducatie tijdens Echt Erik Festival, Groningen, NL

A practice-based research is presented investigating a method of teaching CI-recipients to play the piano with the goal of improving their aural perception. The method is based on the concept of ideomotor learning i.e. the development of a neural association between music and the movement that produces …

Three topics are discussed: audiomotor transformations in music, the aural perception of music, and procedural learning and music syntax. Biologically, the ability to make music and enjoy it is based on the innate capacities for beat induction and relative pitch (recognition of melodic contour). The …

Keynote lezing op uitnodiging op 10th International Conference for Research in Music Education RIME , Bath (UK), 24-27/472017

Presentatie op uitnodiging in project van Prins Claus Conservatorium/Zernike College Haren o.l.v. Hannah Conway rond Mozart’s Requiem, Groningen (NL).

The concept of Lifelong Learning refers to all purposeful learning throughout life, transforming experience into knowledge and skills, attitudes, values, emotions, beliefs, and the senses. Lifelong learning is cognitive, but also emotional and practical. It embraces formal, but also non-formal and informal …

Individuals take possession of their lives by connecting who they are to what they do. The Protean musician is one who not only performs but pursues a lifelong series of identity changes based on continuous learning. Musicians focus on learning how to learn, on adaptability, and on developing knowledge …

Classical musicians dream of an international performance career, a ‘Musotopia’ , in which they are able to make a living only by playing concerts. Reality tells us that 77% of performers earn over half of their income from teaching, and that 90% have a secondary occupation. Is there still work for performers? …