Course overview
This course seeks to give participants in-depth practical experience of pedagogically significant repertoire from intermediate to advanced levels through the preparation for and presentation of a recital. Students will develop their individual musicianship, interpretative skills, knowledge of stylistic conventions and technical skills. They will also further their understanding of how such skills can best be developed through methods of teaching and learning. They will explore the fundamental skills related to their specific instrument, and how such skills can be sequentially developed through technical exercises and selection of repertoire. Students will develop an understanding of the chief considerations that must be met to achieve a professional standard of performance and communication.
Clear and detailed documentation in a reflective journal of activities including lesson observations, reflections, rehearsal and concert observations and attendance at Elder Conservatorium based activities
Course learning outcomes
- Develop student's technical skill to an appropriate level for seamless, consistent and wide ranging tonal production and fluency for the performance of pedagogically significant works of intermediate to advanced levels of difficulty.
- Develop their stylistic awareness to an appropriate level for historically informed and compositionally empathetic performance of pedagogically significant works of intermediate to advanced levels of difficulty
- Develop their interpretive ability to an appropriate level for insightful and creative performance of pedagogically significant works of intermediate to advanced levels of difficulty
- Increase the scope of their performance repertoire to encompass a variety of pedagogically significant works of intermediate to advanced levels of difficulty.
- Develop their program building acuity to an appropriate level that will ensure balance, variety, thematic direction and cohesion in their choice of recital content
- Increase their knowledge and understanding to enable insightful commentary in written program notes concerning the purposes and contexts of repertoire being performed
- Further develop a fluent use of written language sufficient to support appropriate program notes for a pedagogy recital
- Further develop effective autonomous and well directed practice regimes that build towards a finessed and meaningful recital performance