RETHINKING PIANO PERFORMANCE: THE EMBODIED MIND

Cristine MacKie’s over-arching objective is to be found in her life-long work, which advocates an ‘embodied’ approach to piano teaching and performing.  This is acknowledged by the magazine the Music Teacher (April 2014) who describes Cristine as the UK’s ‘leading advocate of the mind/ body approach’.  Her invaluable contribution on this neglected issue of ‘embodiment’ is unprecedented, and is reflected in burgeoning research, establishing of organizations, and publishing of books and academic papers all of which have laid the foundation for a clearer understanding of what piano performance and its practice thereof, entails.