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KEELE MUSIC FORUM
VICTORIA SOAMES SAMEK
Wednesday 7 March 2018 | 1:15-2:20pm
LECTURE ROOM, CLOCK HOUSE, KEELE UNIVERSITY
PERFORMING AT YOUR BEST CONSISTENTLY. A SCIENTIFIC
APPROACH TO PRACTICE IN FULFILLMENT OF PERFORMANCE
Victoria Soames Samek: international
renowned performing artist, professor
of clarinet and saxophone, founder
of the specialist CD label Clarinet
and Saxophone Classics and director
of Samek Music, with a Masters in
Performance Science, delivers a talk
which promises to be both entertaining
and personal.
£15
KEELE CONCERTS
£8 STUDENT
CONCESSION
FITZROY QUARTET
Wednesday 28 February 2018 | 7:30pm
WESTMINSTER THEATRE, KEELE UNIVERSITY
Winners of the 2016 Cavatina Intercollegiate Chamber
Music Competition and Finalists in the 2017 Royal
Overseas League the Fitzroy Quartet were formed
at the Royal Academy of Music in 2014 by 4 award
winning musicians from Italy, Spain and the UK.
They are Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy
for 2016/17 and are also Associate Ensemble at
Birmingham Conservatoire. In 2015 quartet won the
Wolfe Wolfinssohn Quartet Competition for their
performance of Beethoven’s String Quartet Op.135
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and were awarded the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize
for outstanding contribution to the Royal Academy the
same year. They were also the St Peters, Eaton Square
Prize Winners for 2015/2016. Notable collaborations
include Octet performances with the Brodsky, Doric
and Piatti Quartets.
PROGRAMME:
Haydn
Beethoven
Debussy
String Quartet in E major, Op.54 No.3
String Quartet No.10, Op.74
String Quartet in G minor, Op.10
Taking you on her life journey she
discusses how, in her uncompromising
pursuit of excellence, she has combined
creativity with sound scientific concepts
to develop a unique approach to
preparing for performance. Simplifying
complex tasks into individual
components alongside a structured
but flexible framework, she uses an
organised, systematic approach.
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She has developed a unique and
innovative concept which offers the
framework for a diagnostic road map
for practice in establishing a blueprint
of instruction for performance.
She calls her approach Organise-
Prioritise-Commit (OPC).
OPC uses a pragmatic, formalised
structure which is grounded in science
and practical models; it also offers
descriptive suggestions aiding analysis
and self-reporting skills which in turn
help users to deal with the psychological
impact of stresses in performance. Her
methodical, measured approach makes
a compelling argument for science to be
used in partnership with artistic creativity,
and establishes clear and methodical
pathways from practice through to
a sensitive, controlled and musical
performance
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