Fresh approaches to music making
Fresh approaches to music making. I recently decided to get back to choral singing. My musical life doesn't involve group music making
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Charlotte Tomlinson
Jan 25
Loving what we do as musicians
Loving what we do: I haven’t always loved playing the piano; in fact, there has been time, when the instrument that inspired me caused
Charlotte Tomlinson
Nov 29, 2023
Colours in jazz piano playing
Drawing out colours in jazz piano playing I spent a day last week working with jazz piano students at the Royal Academy of Music in...
Charlotte Tomlinson
Oct 27, 2023
Practice time as sacred
Practice time as sacred. How can we best create the right environment for practice and performance?
Charlotte Tomlinson
Sep 26, 2023
Listening in Music
Listening in music is a strange one. It is as elusive a concept in normal everyday communication as it is in music. When do we really...
Charlotte Tomlinson
Jan 31, 2023
Curiosity, fascination and exploration in practice
What if we let ourselves play around with the music to find the freedom we need to be musically expressive?
Charlotte Tomlinson
Sep 28, 2022
How to focus in practice
When I am busy with a lot on my mind, it’s easy for my practice to suffer. Even with the best of intentions I can be off in the world of...
Charlotte Tomlinson
Jul 22, 2021
Preparation and focus
A young professional came for a session and his main concern was preparation. He had a lack of confidence in his own views on practice..
Charlotte Tomlinson
Sep 27, 2020
Practice and performance: creating the right environment
Can we allow our practice time to be a sacred environment where there is freedom and space to be creative?
Charlotte Tomlinson
Aug 25, 2020
Practice and another take on warming up
One of the most frequent questions I am asked as a teacher is ‘Can you show me a good warm up?’
Charlotte Tomlinson
Nov 20, 2019
Focus in practising
So how can we focus in our practising? What does that actually mean?
Charlotte Tomlinson
Jul 17, 2019
How armchair practice can impact focus in performance
It has occurred to me this month when teaching and coaching how incredibly important practice is for the performance we give at the end...
Charlotte Tomlinson
Dec 17, 2018
Warming up at the instrument: an alternative take
One of the most frequent questions I am asked is ‘Can you show me a good warm up?’ When I then ask them to tell me what they think is a...
Charlotte Tomlinson
May 26, 2013
Memorising music
I have worked as a chamber musician and duo partner for my entire career to date and therefore I have not needed to play from memory in...
Charlotte Tomlinson
Feb 8, 2013
A meditative approach to practising
There is so much that is involved in practising a piece of music for a performance. At some stage, I will write about the nuts and bolts...
Charlotte Tomlinson
Jan 31, 2013
Performing from the score versus memorising
I heard somewhere that seven eighths of the world’s music is not written down. I suspect then that most of the remaining eighth is filled...
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