Optimizing Pianism

Evidence-Based Perspectives

Cameron Roberts

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
04 March 2025

Keyboard instruments; Techniques of music & music tutorials

Drawing on his expertise as a medical professional and active pianist, Cameron Roberts provides an understanding of how virtuosic piano playing works from an evidence-based, scientific perspective. Using accessible language, this wealth of information will help readers steer away from uncertainty, suboptimal performance, and injury.

By: Cameron Roberts
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 435g
ISBN: 9798881807795
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 04 March 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cameron Roberts (MBBS, FRCA) is a concert pianist who performs with many of the world’s finest instrumentalists. He studied both music and medicine at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He also studied music at the National Academy of Music, Australia and internationally. Further, he holds a specialist degree in anaesthetics (Royal College of Anaesthetists, UK). For many years, he taught at the Reina Sofia School of Music, Madrid and, later, completed a PhD on the physical, perceptual and pedagogical aspects of the touch-tone relationship (University of New England, Australia).

Reviews for Optimizing Pianism: Evidence-Based Perspectives

This book is a revelation. The universe of pianistic art is examined from all sides and put to the test. The approach is a scientific, rational one, but at the same time, Roberts is also an artist, familiar with the language of emotions and the fragility of aesthetic categories. The book is critically analytical, questioning, and it contains countless practical tips from preventing overuse injuries to working through the difficult etudes and designing a pianistic life plan. Thank you, Cameron! --Eckart Altenmüller, Institute of Music Physiology and Musician's Medicine, Hannover University for Music Highly recommended--this forensic exploration is a keenly scientific and rational handbook on pianism that can assist pianists in skewering the cultural cringe and confidently think for themselves. This book can help you choose your own ""ultimate pianism."" --Michael Kieran Harvey, piano/composition, adjunct professor, University of Tasmania Cameron Roberts is the most ideal person to embark on this type of study. As a brilliant pianist and practicing medical doctor, he combines the disciplines of science and art, bringing his knowledge of the workings of the body in relation to pianism in all its aspects. It is first and foremost intelligent and informative--an absorbing and enjoyable to read. --Ronald Farren-Price, former dean and head of keyboard, University of Melbourne