Exams and how to manage them
We live in a society that prizes exams, so let's consider how to manage the various pitfalls exams throw up, for students & teachers.
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Charlotte Tomlinson
Mar 21
Breathing for musicians
Breathing for musicians to help performance nerves and musical expression
Charlotte Tomlinson
Feb 22
Fresh approaches to music making
Fresh approaches to music making. I recently decided to get back to choral singing. My musical life doesn't involve group music making
Charlotte Tomlinson
Jan 25
Loving what we do as musicians
Loving what we do: I haven’t always loved playing the piano; in fact, there has been time, when the instrument that inspired me caused
Charlotte Tomlinson
Dec 21, 2023
Performing disasters
Performing disasters. What a musician considers to be a performing disaster is very personal
Charlotte Tomlinson
Nov 29, 2023
Colours in jazz piano playing
Drawing out colours in jazz piano playing I spent a day last week working with jazz piano students at the Royal Academy of Music in...
Charlotte Tomlinson
Oct 27, 2023
Practice time as sacred
Practice time as sacred. How can we best create the right environment for practice and performance?
Charlotte Tomlinson
Sep 26, 2023
Listening in Music
Listening in music is a strange one. It is as elusive a concept in normal everyday communication as it is in music. When do we really...
Charlotte Tomlinson
Aug 29, 2023
Balinese music as part of ceremony
Music is simply an integral part of a ceremony and it is rarely performed on its own. The gamelan concerts are only for the tourists.
Charlotte Tomlinson
Mar 22, 2023
Perfection or excellence?
I agree wholeheartedly with playing music to the highest of standards. What is important to me is 'how' those standards are reached.
Charlotte Tomlinson
Jan 31, 2023
Curiosity, fascination and exploration in practice
What if we let ourselves play around with the music to find the freedom we need to be musically expressive?
Charlotte Tomlinson
Dec 21, 2022
How the Balinese approach performance
When I mentioned the word performance anxiety to a Balinese man, he simply laughed. They don't have it!
Charlotte Tomlinson
Oct 27, 2022
Moving through nerves in a safe public performing space
It is essential to give performers the experience of managing their nerves in front of an audience which feels emotionally safe to them.
Charlotte Tomlinson
Sep 28, 2022
How to focus in practice
When I am busy with a lot on my mind, it’s easy for my practice to suffer. Even with the best of intentions I can be off in the world of...
Charlotte Tomlinson
Aug 25, 2022
Piano Freedom, an online video course for pianists
Piano Freedom was created to address the technical and physical issues pianists often struggle with in an easy video format.
Charlotte Tomlinson
Jul 28, 2022
Managing nerves during demanding performances
Managing nerves during demanding performances Sam was attempting to play a difficult Beethoven piano sonata on stage in front of his...
Charlotte Tomlinson
Jun 23, 2022
Connecting physical pain & tension to emotions
If a musician is holding tension, it will affect their sound, their expression, their anxiety about performing and much more.
Charlotte Tomlinson
May 26, 2022
More thoughts about the core
I find it fascinating that musicians so rarely talk about the importance of the core performance of music.
Charlotte Tomlinson
Mar 22, 2022
Interview Part 3: Symptoms of performance anxiety in musicians
What we’re aiming for is a kind of meditative focus on stage without this horrible barrier of fear and anxiety.
Charlotte Tomlinson
Feb 28, 2022
Interview Part 2: Symptoms of performance anxiety in musicians
Our bullying, critical culture has really got its teeth into classical musicians and the Inner Critic can have a devastating impact.
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