Learning and Teaching in the Music Studio : A Student-centred Approach

This book advocates for a radical change in music teaching and learning methods, allowing for a break from the traditional conservatory model still in use in many classrooms. The product of twenty years of interdisciplinary work by musicians, music teachers, and psychologists, the book proposes to place the focus of music education on the students themselves and on their mental and physical activity, with the aim of helping them to manage their own goals and emotions. This alternative is based on a new theoretical framework, as well as numerous real, concrete examples of how to put it into practice with students of different ages and in different environments. This book focuses primarily on teaching instrumental music, but its content will be useful for any teacher, student, musician, or researcher interested in improving music education in any environment, whether formal or informal, in which it takes place

Guadalupe López-Íñiguez has a Doctorate in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Madrid and is a cellist specialized in historical performance practice. She is Associate Professor of Music Education at the Sibelius Academy and works as Researcher in the Centre for Educational Research and Academic Development in the Arts (CERADA) of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. Her research includes the study of psychological processes inherent in music learning and teaching, the optimisation of interpretation, life-long learning and employability, musical identities and learner identities, giftedness and talent, and the theories of emotion. Guadalupe is Co-Editor of Revista Internacional de Educación Musical and Vice-President of the Spanish Society for Music Psychology and Musical Performance. She regularly gives concerts as a soloist and has recorded the complete works of Gabrielli, Scarlatti and Mendelssohn for cello.

 

José Antonio Torrado del Puerto is Professor of Violin at the Superior Conservatory of Music of Malaga, Guest Lecturer for the Master’s degree in Psychology of Education at the Autonomous University of Madrid and Lecturer in the Master’s degree course on Creation and Interpretation at the Rey Juan Carlos University. He researches into the area of management of emotions through sounds, the implicit conceptions of teachers and students on learning and its purpose: music and its relationship with the strategies used in the classrooms for study and management of its interpretation.