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Desert Skies: Innovation in recurring studio music masterclasses

Thank you for attending our presentation! Click here for a copy of our slides. Bibliography Aho, H. (2013). “I Listen, I Hear, I Understand”: Students’ Collaborative Search for Criteria to Empower Constructive Feedback in Classical Piano Performance. In H. Westerlund (Ed.), Collaborative learning in higher music education. Ashgate. Atkinson, P., Watermeyer, R., & Delamont, S. …

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Suncoast 2025: Student Perceptions and Experiences of Recurring Studio Music Masterclasses

Thank you for attending our virtual paper at the Suncoast Music Education Research Symposium. If you have any questions or comments about our research, feel free to email me at ahodgson@uwo.ca. The other members of our team are Dr. Laura Benjamins (Redeemer University) and our student research assistants Gustavo Jimenez Pereira (PhD candidate), Rayne Dias …

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CMS National 2024: Unforeseen learning dynamics

Thank you for your interest in our Lightning Talk and ePoster. This post houses information, contact information for the presenters and our list of references. Title: Unforeseen Learning Dynamics: Empowering Action through Community of Practice-based PedagogyDate: Friday, Nov. 8, 2024Location: College Music Society National Conference, Washington, D.C., USAPresenters: Dr. Aaron Hodgson, Western University (ahodgson@uwo.ca) – …

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CMS National 2024: Master-less classes

Thank you for your interest in our workshop. This post houses information about the workshop, contact information for the presenters and our list of references. Title: Master-less classes: Alternative models and learning outcomes in recurring studio masterclassesDate: Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024Location: College Music Society National Conference, Washington, D.C., USAPresenters: Dr. Aaron Hodgson (ahodgson@uwo.ca), Gustavo Jimenez …

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ISME 2024 – Facilitating Holistic Musical Identities through Communities of Practice: A Case Study in Studio Pedagogy

Thank you for your interest in our paper! This post houses information about the paper, contact information for the presenters and our list of references. Title: Facilitating Holistic Musical Identities through Communities of Practice: A Case Study in Studio PedagogyDate: Tuesday, July 30, 2024Location: International Society for Music Education World Conference, The University of the …

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CMS-Northwest – From Performer to Pedagogue: Transformative Modalities in Music Studio Teaching

Thank you for your interest in our paper! This post houses information about the paper, contact information for the presenters and our list of references. Title: From Performer to Pedagogue: Transformative Modalities in Music Studio TeachingDate: Friday, March 15, 2024Location: College Music Society, Northwest Chapter Regional Conference, UBC School of Music, Vancouver, BCPresenters: Dr. Aaron …

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MESA 2023 Presentation: Confronting Perfection in the Teaching Studio

Blier-Carruthers, Amy. “The Problem of Perfection in Classical Recording: The Performer’s Perspective.” The Musical Quarterly 103, no. 1–2 (December 1, 2020): 184–236. https://doi.org/10.1093/musqtl/gdaa008. Bose, Sudip. “In Praise of Flubs: The Pursuit of Perfection Has Taken All the Personality out of Recorded Classical Music.” The American Scholar 74, no. 1 (2005): 115–18. Burns, David D. Feeling …

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Happy Canada day! A round-up of Canadian music for trumpet

Tomorrow, Canada celebrates its 150th birthday. I love this country (warts and all): I’m proud of our arts and culture, our society, our national quirks and I’m especially proud to contribute to Canada’s future by working and teaching here. Many classical musicians in Canada feel detached from their nation’s composers. I think that’s especially true …

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