Music Research Seminar

Join us for our recent Department of Music Research Seminar, featuring some of the world's leading researchers in music.

"From display to shared making: agency, co-authorship and ensemble culture in HE music performance" 

In this seminar Dr Krivenski will show how her research has led to reconceptualising performance in HE towards ensemble-centred, participatory practice. She will highlight common findings (listening, shared authorship, assessment/feedback design) and add a short section on current interests -community-music values, trauma-informed teaching, and somatic approaches - framed with recent scholarship as next steps to test in a university context.

Daughter of distinguished Eastern European musicians, Dr Maria Krivenski was born in Milan, Italy, where she started studying piano with her mother at the age of six. After gaining her piano diploma cum laude from the renowned Verdi Conservatoire of Milan, under the guidance of Chiaralberta Pastorelli, she started her postgraduate studies with Klaus Schilde at the Musikhochschule in Munich and continued them in the UK with Sulamita Aronovsky at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester) and Goldsmiths, University of London. Maria has received the Peake Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. As a researcher, she has focused on the teaching/learning practices and the culture of musical performance in a university context. Her study, 'Feeding back' in musical performance: exploring feedback practice in relation to students' and tutors' learning and teaching experience, was funded by the PALATINE Development Award scheme. She has participated in the large-scale, EU-funded research projected PRAISE, contributing to the development of a social timeline for musical performance students that facilitates online peer feedback. Maria has been awarded a PhD from the University of Sheffield for her research on emic understandings of classical musical performance in a university context. Find out more.

Event schedule

4-5pm, talk and presentation
5-5.30pm, Q&A
5.30-6pm, drinks reception