Profile

Biography

Elizabeth Haddon studied music at the University of York, graduating in 1987, where she focused on historically informed performance and editorial work. Since then her freelance work has been very varied and has included the teaching of Javanese gamelan in the UK and abroad, tambura playing for the sarangi player Ram Narayan for concerts and Nimbus CD recordings, administration of the new music group Icebreaker and organising Striking Out, a week-long festival of gamelan music in 1993. Her interest in varied musical areas led to her book on British musicians: Making Music in Britain: Interviews with those behind the notes (Ashgate 2006). Liz also teaches piano privately and at the University of York.

From 2006-2008 Liz worked as the York University Music Department Research Officer (responsible to Dr John Potter and the other IMP award-holders in London, Glasgow and Leeds) for the ESRC-funded research project Investigating Musical Performance. This project explored how undergraduate music students developed their learning about performance and led to output in music journals and international conference presentations. Liz continues to work with John Potter on projects relating to the singer/pianist partnership, and also researches aspects of instrumental and vocal teaching and learning. These include contexts of instrumental and vocal learning which occur outside the one-to-one context, which may be described as hidden, unseen by teachers. Liz is also currently investigating music masterclasses through an interdisciplinary approach, with Dr Beatrice Szczepek Reed (Education) and Dr Darren Reed (Sociology).

Departmental roles

• Research Fellow
• Performance Supervisor
• Instrumental and vocal workshops co-ordinator

Research

Overview

• Music Pedagogy
• Performance
• Music Psychology

Publications

Selected publications

• Making Music in Britain: Interviews with those behind the notes. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., (2006).

Full publications list

• Multiple Teachers: Multiple Gains? (2011), British Journal of Music Education 28 (1), 69-85
• Instrumental and Vocal Teaching: How do music students learn to teach? (2009), British Journal of Music Education 26 (1), 57-70
• Hidden learning and instrumental and vocal development in undergraduate university music education. Book chapter, in Investigating Musical Performance, ed. G. Welch. Ashgate 2012.
• Creativity and the institutional mindset, co-author John Potter. Book chapter, in Investigating Musical Performance, ed. G. Welch. Ashgate 2012.
  
• What does mental imagery mean to university music students and their professors? Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science 2007, ed. Williamon, A and Coimbra, D. pp.301-306. Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC), The Netherlands. ISBN: 978-90-9022484-8, 2007.
• Making Music in Britain: Interviews with those behind the notes. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. (2006).

Selected Papers

• Single or Triple Threat? University Music Students and Musical Theatre Learning. Song, Stage and Screen V Conference, University of Winchester, September 2010.
  
• Music Workshops Scheme. Learning and Teaching Conference, University of York, June 2010.
  
• Making Sense of the Self: Music Students and Self-identity. Musical Identity and Social Interaction Conference, Royal Northern College of Music, February 2010.
  
• University Students and Masterclass Learning. Royal Musical Association Students' Conference: Convergence and Confluence: exploring shared ground in musical research. University of York, January 2010.
  
• Multiple teachers: multiple gains? The Reflective Conservatoire, Second International Conference: Building Connections Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, February-March 2009.
• Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder: a pianist’s perspective on listening and learning. Paper and performance with Dr John Potter at the International Seminar on the act of Listening in the Musicians’ Creative Process, Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium. May 2008.
• Pedagogy in practice: how do music students learn to become instrumental and vocal teachers? Symposium paper, International Society for Music Education (ISME) 2008 Conference Bologna, Italy. 2008.
• Culture and Context: the influence of institutional culture on undergraduate musicians’ attitudes to learning and performance. (Co-author: Ioulia Papageorgi) SEMPRE: Empirical Musicology, London, 2008.
• What does mental imagery mean to university music students and their professors? International Symposium of Performance Science, Porto, 2007.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Performance (including Study Day for undergraduate recitalists)
• Pedagogy
• Instrumental lessons (piano)
• Solo project supervision