Time

Item

Presenter

Saturday 10th October: ASPAH Conference and AGM

8.30 am

Registration (Level 2 Foyer, Queensland Conservatorium)

9.00 am

Welcome to participants/housekeeping

9.10 am

Session 1

Reflections from the Upper West Side: On training to become a teacher in the Taubman Approach to piano technique

Therese Milanovic

Preventing injuries through creative pedagogy: Teaching cello

Anne Berry

10.10 am

Morning Tea (Staff Room, Level 3)

10.30 am

Session 2

Finding a functionally efficient flute playing position: A descriptive study using EMG

Karen Lonsdale, Liisa Laakso, Peter Mills

Velopharyngeal insufficiency in wind instrumentalists: A questionnaire study

Alison Evans, Tim Driscoll, Bronwen Ackermann

Movement and muscle activity patterns of the respiratory and orofacial musculature in flute players under varied postural conditions

Vanessa Ropa

12.00 pm

Lunch (Staff Room, Level 3)

1.10 pm

Session 3

Singers and proprioception: A Feldenkrais approach to learning how self-awareness and self-monitoring provide a safe and secure path to further learning

Anna Connolly, Stephen Grant

Playing with Pain: Ways to manage and prevent playing related overuse injuries for musicians

Erica Rasmussen

Performance anxiety: A music therapist’s perspective

R. Craner, Claire Weller

2.30 pm

Afternoon tea (Staff Room, Level 3)

3.00 pm

Session 4

Physical screening practices in dance: Applying the research

Melanie Fuller, David Peirce

To be or not to be - is that the right question?: Psychological health and wellbeing of actors in training and in the work place in the UK

Mark Seton

3.50 pm

Short break

4.00 pm

Open forum on ASPAH

4.30 pm

ASPAH Annual General Meeting

5.50 pm

Finish

6.00 pm

Conservatorium building closes

6.30 pm

Pre-dinner drinks (River Canteen, South Bank)

7.15 pm

Conference Dinner (River Canteen, South Bank)

Sunday 11th October: Keynote address and workshops

8.30 am

Registration (Level 2 Foyer, Queensland Conservatorium)

9.00 am

Keynote address (combined ANATS/ASPAH event)

12-Step program to maintain vocal health

Professor Scott McCoy (Orchestral Hall, Level 1)

10.30 am

Morning Tea (*Level 2 Foyer) (combined ANATS/ASPAH delegates)

11.00 am

WORKSHOPS

Workshop 1 (Boardroom, Level 3)

˜Tuning”your spine

Aidan McGuigan

Workshop 2 (Lecture room 1.39, Level 1)

Vocal unloading and the performance voice

Annie Strauch

Workshop 3 (Practice Room 1.48, Level 1)

Problem solving with the Taubman Approach

Therese Milanovic

12.30 pm

Finish

(Note: Ongoing ANATS events in the afternoon)