The importance of learning to create an expressive performance is a consistently discussed topic in music education. However, how musicians develop “expressiveness” is still understudied. Recent investigations haveshown that musicians’ motor behavior is a significant source of perceptual information …

Background The importance of learning to create an expressive performance is a consistently discussed topic in music education. However, how musicians develop “expressiveness” is still understudied. Recent investigations have shown that musicians’ motor behavior is a significant source of perceptual …

Sound Soils is a practice-oriented research initiative aimed at exploring opportunities for musicians to contribute to rural life in the Northern Netherlands, with a specific emphasis on participatory music practices. Grounded in Participatory Action Research methodology and ethnographic forms of data …

Conference presentation on the educational implications of healthcare musicians' new professional and interprofessional competences.

Rurale leefomgevingen zijn, zoals elke leefomgeving, complex. In Noord-Nederland wordt deze complexiteit nog verder geïntensiveerd als gevolg van de maatschappelijke druk die uitgaat van transities in bijvoorbeeld landbouw, energie, wonen en toerisme en de maatschappelijke implicaties daarvan zoals armoede, …

Male bodies in opera were given a new, daring dimension with the composition of the role of Oberon for countertenor in Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. While male altos had existed in different forms for centuries, this opera marks the first time a countertenor was specifically acknowledged …