Feedback: Santiago Cimadevilla

RQ: It’s only clear after reading the rest of the ARP, consider re-phrasing it (maybe “that are requested of me”)

Survey: Make a relevant questionnaire in consultation with your coach and an expert. Consider handing the questionnaire out to members of an orchestra with a concertmaster that you admire (select in consultation with expert/coach), in order to compare the results with the questionnaire handed out to musicians that play with you.

Planning: Organize your intervention cycles around the performances you have planned in the time of your research (not the other way around!).

I’ve got some concert master performances coming up. One of them is at the Big Day with a baroque ensemble, but since I won’t play any soli there and since it’s a completely different way of playing than I’m used to, I don’t think this could be useful for this reserach.

At the beginning of April I’ll lead a (stubborn) amateur orchestra in the St Matthews Passion (I’m the leader of orchestra II), which means I’ll play a solo twice in a row. Could be useful.

My own orchestra will perform at the 2nd of May. Repertoire: The Planets – Holst, Sheherazade 2nd movement – Rimsky-Korsakov, The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Kahn – Griffes, E.T. – Williams. So many soli 😉

Literature:  Organize the books you have and set priorities to start reading them. Use synopses, or book reviews (Amazon?).

Yes, for sure :).

Regarding playing of concertmaster soli: Be aware of the closeness to your main subject. Try to approach this with a research-based strategy.

Should I skip this part?

Measurement: consider a multiple approach, such as surveys before and after, and input of experts (ie, their views on the changes in your practice as shown in your reference recording vs the results of your intervention cycles).

Possible problem: too close to main subject?

Feedback: Rob Broek

Podiumangst? Skip the references if they are not relevant.

Ambitious. Maybe less aspects to be researched is better.

Measurement of improvement?  Interview, recordings. Also a manual for concertmasters could be output of this research as the ultimate way of reflecting.

 I like this idea of a manual!!!

Feedback: Nicole Jordan

Is there one concert master whom you really admire who seems to bring all of your areas of interest together? Can you use him/her as a case study to start?

Yes! I’ll write an apart post about her.