Adina Mornell’s course teaches you the tools of experts to help you create your own recipe for successful and enjoyable performance
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You would never board a plane, if you thought that a safe flight was up to luck or chance. You expect that years of experience and scientific investigation have produced methods of operation that all but ensure success. Why should musicians settle for less secure outcomes when they work on their music or dare perform in public?
This course aims to enable you to benefit from the latest discoveries in psychology and performance science. In three workshops you’ll find out how experts train and learn from “near misses” and errors to constantly improve. Their working habits give clues to ways musicians can be methodically in their preparation, making sure that learned music is more secure in hand and heart, and reliable in performance.
Each of the workshops will be followed up by assignments that allow you to experiment – and have fun – with the learned material. You’ll discover innovative learning methods and learn how to employ new and individualised strategies that recognise and build on your strengths.
Workshop 1: The Pianist’s Brain: A Brief User Manual
In this first workshop, you will discover how you can benefit from recent discoveries in psychology and performance science that go beyond what was previously known about the interplay of body, brain and heart. We’ll look at the three stages of learning: acquisition, storage, and retrieval and discuss the role of emotions – all leading to tips for how to enjoy and optimise your time in the practice room.
Workshop 2: Stretching Your Musical Memory Muscles
It’s not a matter of luck or chance. With methodic preparation, learning “by heart” can be easier and memory more secure, even if you don’t plan to play without the score. The second workshop explores different types of memory systems and ways for shoring up passages and remembering music for better confidence and stability in performance. We’ll also bust some myths around “blackouts” and explore the pros and cons of playing from memory in concert.
Workshop 3: Engaging Heart and Brain for Positive Outcomes
The final workshop aims to empower you to embark upon a continual path towards improvement by equipping you with a personalised catalog of practice methods. We’ll look at the three stages of expertise across domains to see how professionals leave their comfort zone to achieve excellence. By recognising your own strengths and building on them by experimenting with new strategies, you’ll be able to realise actual change!
Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to collect the ingredients for your own recipe of enjoyable practice while discovering how rewarding it can be to share your playing with others!
Adina Mornell, classical pianist and recording artist, received her PhD in Music Psychology and Instrumental Pedagogy in Vienna. As professor at the music university in Munich, she conducts empirical studies in the field of musical performance science. Her teaching and research focus on deliberate practice, attentional focus and the intersection of neuroscience and music psychology. As a solo pianist, she has had several CDs released worldwide; her books and articles (in English and German) address performers and teachers.