CFP: Broadening Music Performance, Univ. of Surrey, Guildford, 26-27 Jun 2025

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Broadening Music Performance: New Approaches and Possibilities for Higher Music Education

Dates: June 26 to June 27, 2025
Location: University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

Conference committee: Dr Georgia Volioti (University of Surrey); Professor Sue Miller (Leeds Beckett University); Professor David Garcia (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Dr Eddie Dobson (University of Huddersfield / Yorkshire Sound Women Network); Dr Katherine Williams (University of Huddersfield); Dr Chiying Lam (University of Southampton); Dr James Williams (University of Derby)

Keynote speaker: Professor Laudan Nooshin (City, University of London)

This conference aims to address three overarching questions:
1. How can we broaden the nature and scope of music performance (of any genre) in meaningful, inclusive and caring ways?
2. How can we strengthen community and belonging through performance in higher music education, in the face of adversity and unpredictability in today’s world?
3. How can the provision of music performance within higher education, or other settings relevant for performers’ training, adapt and respond to some of today’s complex challenges?

Suggested themes:

• Performance evaluation.
• Reflective/reflexive practice in performance.
• Diverse musical literacies / aural skills and performance (of any genre).
• Performance improvisation skills (including cross-genre approaches).
• Re-evaluating twenty-first century HE contexts of performance (barriers and opportunities).
• Technology and performance (in rehearsing, audition and feedback, online teaching and music-making).
• Inclusive environments for performance.
• Embedding interdisciplinarity in performance (practical or theoretical modules).
• Embedding sustainability values/practices in performance.
• Developing eco-literate performance pedagogies.
• Translating/developing research findings into effective teaching and learning interventions for performance.
• Performers’ health in the HE music curriculum.
• Music performance in HE as reparative, transformational and healing.
• Coaching/counselling/mindfulness approaches to performers’ training and career development.

Submission deadline: December 1, 2024.

Abstracts must be 300 words and structured as follows: title; aims; content outline; conclusion; impact of contribution.

Email abstracts to: Dr Georgia Volioti (g.volioti – at – surrey.ac.uk) and Professor Sue Miller (S.M.Miller – at – leedsbeckett.ac.uk)