Posts by Cristine
Announcing an innovative project with Alison McGregor, Professor of Musculoskeletal Biodynamics at Imperial College, London
I am extremely pleased to say that I have begun working on a innovative project with Alison McGregor who is a Professor of Musculoskeletal Biodynamics in the Department of Surgery and Cancer, where she manages the Human Performance Group, and the engineer, Matthew Banger in the biodynamics Laboratory at Imperial College, London. This collaboration, using Markerless technology, will go a long way toward providing evidence concerning the function (movement) of the pianist’s skeleton and, possibly building on that, to show the relevant muscles which flex and extend the skeletal bones of the torso, and the ‘reach to grasp’ i.e. the scapula, upper arm, forearm/hand...
Read MoreA Conference entitled ‘When Music Comes to Mind: Embodying the Performer’ will be hosted by the Royal College of Music on Saturday October 25th, 2025.
Details to be announced in mid-April 2025
Read More2021 sees the launch by Cristine MacKie of the Rethinking Piano Performance: The Embodied Mind, published by the the London International Piano Symposium.
Read More2021, London International Piano Symposium published 2nd edition of New Thoughts on Piano Performance: Research at the Interface between Science and the Art of Piano Performance, compiled and edited by Cristine MacKie
Read MoreCollaboration with the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden
Two dancers from the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden will perform a pas de deux to the piano work, Clair de Lune by Debussy. The interpretation is based in part on a study entitled Mirror Neurons: Imitation and emulation in piano performance, which was a collaboration with the Jeanetta Lawrence, Associate Director of the Royal Ballet, and Cristine Mackie, Director of the London International Piano Symposium. It is to be presented at the Linbury theatre on the 23rd, 24th and 26th of April 2013.
Read More