Overview
- Casts light on piano teachers' fears stemming from their social professional vulnerabilities
- Examines piano education critically and addresses general aspects of music education
- Identifies the sensitivities of piano teachers that affect the musical inspiration of their students
Part of the book series: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education (LAAE, volume 32)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
- music performance anxiety
- anxiety of public performances
- piano pedagogy
- piano education
- piano performance
- piano action mechanism
- piano action and pianist’s physiology
- culturally-informed inspiration in the piano training discourse
- musicality, physiology, and inspiration
- musical inspiration
- piano teachers and their students
- music education
About this book
The book penetrates the protective mechanisms of the teachers that, on the one hand, maintain their professional functioning, while on the other hand, block refreshing ideas. It combines exploration of secure and culturally informed inspired playing, coping with exaggerated anxiety and understanding the interaction of piano actions with pianist’s physiology.
This book helps to open teachers’ perceptions of the ways to enable more secure and more inspired performances while remembering the inner feelings of the piano teachers.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Zecharia Plavin was born in 1956, Lithuanian Vilnius, then under the Soviet regime. He studied in the famous Čiurlionis School of arts under Marietta Azizbekova, herself a student of Samuil Feinberg in Moscow Conservatoire. At age 21, Plavin immigrated to Israel, studied piano under Professor Viktor Derevianko and completed his piano studies under Louis Kentner in London, writing a Ph.D. research on Ernest Bloch for the Hebrew University. Receiving the Shapira award in 1980, he began concertizing playing with Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and later performing in the USA and many European countries. In 1990, he started teaching piano at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. In 2000, Plavin founded the short-lived Israeli Musicians' Forum to promote musicians' professional rights in the country, simultaneously widening the scope of his academic expertise into areas of culture, philosophy, and protection of human rights. His texts on Ernest Bloch and Ben-Zion Orgad appeared inbooks issued by Cambridge University Press and Ben Gurion University Press. Since 2007, his compositions started being performed by his colleagues and have been presented in Israel, USA, Lithuania, Hong Kong, and Germany.
Plavin keeps combining concert activities with research and composition, playing both Beethoven, Schumann, and Liszt and works by Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Ernest Bloch, Hans Kox, Rued Langgaard, and Ben-Zion Orgad. His former piano students Ofra Ytzkhaki and Nizar Elkhatter feature ever more prominently on the concert stages of Israel and Western Europe.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: We Piano Teachers and Our Demons
Book Subtitle: Socio-psychological Obstacles on the Road to Inspired and Secure Performance
Authors: Zecharia Plavin
Series Title: Landscapes: the Arts, Aesthetics, and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2141-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2140-7Published: 24 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2143-8Published: 25 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-2141-4Published: 23 May 2022
Series ISSN: 1573-4528
Series E-ISSN: 2214-0069
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 158
Number of Illustrations: 54 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Teaching and Teacher Education, Pedagogic Psychology, Philosophy of Music, Education, general, Music