Workshops/Seminars

 

"Warm-up" with Vasco Gouveia

 

This workshop has the purpose of approaching warm-up exercises that can help improving the daily practice.

 

"Alexander Technique" with Pedro Couto Soares

 

The optimization of the instrumental execution requires a deep tacit knowledge of the neuro-muscular processes involved. The eagerness to get immediate results usually leads many instrumentalists to not pay enough attetion to the efficiency of those processes. Deluded by the apparent effectiveness of the results many players persist in habits whose disastrous consequences manifest themselves when the automatisms created are already difficult to eradicate. Excessive tension, pain or muscle injuries and the relative inefficiency of long hours of practice are often accepted as inevitable consequences of a stoically activity extremely picky.
The Alexander Technique aims to optimise the relationship between thought and movement in any activity and is taught in numerous and prestigious artistic education institutions, but unfortunately in Portugal there is a lack of qualified teachers. This workshop aims to introduce the principles and procedures used in learning the Alexander Technique, seeking to flesh out some of the problems of flutists who can benefit from their application

 

"Orchestra auditions" with Katharine Rawdon

 

An orchestra is not a recital, neither an exam: it demands a really specific work. What are the specific requirements on this type of audition and what's the best way to prepare it? We will analyze the subject not only by the flutist's point of view, but also by the jury's - what do they seek? With a talk based on my experience as a flutist, judge and teacher; with participants exemplifying frequently requested excerpts; and with room for questions.

 

"Extended techniques" with Monika Streitová

 

This workshop fits in the development of educational tools in teaching flute.The workshop will allow the learning extended techniques on the flute, making them a resource for daily study. It will also make use of some compositions or excerpts of compositions that employ contemporary techniques to demonstrate how these can be applied in the effective resolution of various problems either in sound production, or in the more reasoned interpretation of contemporary music. The refinement of these techniques will also allow an improvement in sound resources applicable to any repertoire.

 

 

"Mental training of Performance" with Margarida Fonseca Santos

 

 

​Description:

We know that, in addition to the study and work in preparation for a performance, there are factors that influence in determining the moment at which we present ourselves in public. These factors relate to a mismanagement of stress cumulated, fears, failures in concentration and memory, inability to feel pleasure when touching, etc. The mental training of performance helps to figure out how to work these limitations and how to bypass, but above all how can potentiate the job done on a day-to-day basis. In this short course will be taught mental techniques (specific for musicians) such as: viewing of performance; focus and increase in concentration.

 

Goals:

It is intended to give, to the musicians, tools that will enable them to: learn to master anxiety and control, as well as to improve their performance; Apply the "imagery of the future", exercising mentally perfect task, programming the subconscious for a more effective performance; Handle the four performance moments: mental training; the preproduction performance; the performance; the post-performance.

 

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