Claire Pendleton wins Practice Based Reseach Award

Research Festival

This prize was awarded at the end of the three-day Research Festival, during which students, teachers and researchers of the conservatoire's learning community shared and talked about their research findings.

The nominees

Five master students were nominated for the Practice Based Research Award:

Claire Pendleton - "Musicking and Gathering: A Reinterpretation of the Historical Salon Performance Model to Create Audience Connection"

Tsveta Boneva - "Improvisation in Classical Music"

Freya Turton - "Finding my Artistic Voice: The Path to Authentic Music Making"

Elena Fabris - "Basso continuo with harpsichord in small Baroque ensembles. Communication and adaptation."

Petr Tureček - "Storytelling in Drumming By Using Motivic Development"

PBR Research Award

The festival concluded with the announcement of the third winner of the PBR Research Award. The jury, consisting of Marike van Dijk, Fardo Eringa and Marina Torra Cabau, awarded this prize for the best Practice Based Research Project to master student Claire Pendleton (Master of Music, New Audiences and Innovative Practice).

About her research project "Musicking and Gathering: A Reinterpretation of the Historical Salon Performance Model to Create Audience Connection", the jury notes the following. “Your approach to the performer as a host is caring and an inspiring angle to reflect on new roles for practitioners to create meaningful music experiences. The jury was impressed by your level of maturity as a researcher. You were able to reflect on a meta-level on the concepts you have used, with apparent ease.”

Our congratulations go out to Claire, and we would like to thank all the participating speakers for sharing their interesting research!

Claire Pendleton wins Practice Based Reseach Award

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