Ann Sloboda (session 3h) Guildhall School of Music & Drama ann.sloboda@gsmd.ac.uk
Please see Donald Wetherick for abstract (session 3h) Ann Sloboda is a music therapist, psychoanalyst and musician She studied music at Oxford, and subsequently qualified as a music therapist in 1985 at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Between 1985 and 2005 she worked as a music therapist in the NHS, in the fields of adult learning disability, eating disorders, general psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. A past chair of the Association of Professional Music Therapists, she was Head of Arts Therapies at West London Mental Health Trust for 10 years. Since 2005 she has been Head of Music Therapy at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She qualified as a psychoanalyst in 2012, and is also active as a pianist.
Professor John Sloboda (sessions 2e & 4a, & chair L1c & 2g) Guildhall School of Music & Drama john.sloboda@gsmd.ac.uk
Please see Dr Karen Wise for abstract (session 2e) Please see Dr Geir Johansen for abstract (session 4a) Audience and artist reactions to repetitions of a piece within the same concert: implications for creative practice and pedagogy Roundtable theme: Interdisciplinary Connections Repeating a performance of the same work within a concert is an established, while not common, tradition within contemporary classical performance. It is particularly associated with short new (or unfamiliar) works. However, beyond anecdote, there is little understanding of the effects of such repetition on audiences, nor a well-articulated theoretical and practical account of when such repetition works artistically, and when it does not. The initiative to start this interdisciplinary project came from Andrea Halpern, a cognitive psychologist working at Bucknell University, USA, with particular expertise on imagery in and memory for music. John Sloboda (Research Professor) proposed a science-art collaboration involving “real life� components, by involving staff and students at Guildhall School who have experience of past concerts in which work was repeated, and who were planning repeated performances within upcoming concerts. The Guildhall teaching staff are involved in this project are as follows. Julian Anderson (Professor of Composition and Composer in Residence) is an collaborator with wide experience of and knowledge about repeated performances. He has provided artistic and experiential input 209