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The Music Excellence Project aims to create a society with cultural enrichness and to realize sustainable development of culture, in which pianists can continue creative and health performance throughout their lives through making the synergy between art education and physical education.

Music Excellence Projectは、芸術教育と身体教育の相乗効果により、ピアニストが生涯に渡ってクリエイティブな演奏を健やかに行える、文化的に豊かな社会の創造と文化の持続可能性の実現に貢献することを目指しています。

A physical education curriculum for the purpose of fully manifesting the fruits of art education

Music education institutions, private lessons, and lectures focus on teaching pianists about the arts, such as deepening sensitivity and interpretation in their musical expression, and developing their ears and minds to distinguish between different forms of expression. However, even as their artistry is nurtured, if their understanding of how the body and mind work and how to use them does not grow sufficiently, there will be no end to the number of players who have an idea of what they want to express, but don't know how to use their body and mind to realize it, and will suffer from the gap between their ideal expression and their actual performance. Our physical education   PEAC, as a means to realize artistry, provides lectures on the workings and mechanisms of the brain, body, and mind, as well as coaching and training to help resolve issues in performance from a physical perspective. This curriculums supports the learning and augmentation of ways to use the body and mind to generate the desired expression, and enables the creation of freer expression.

Visualizing performance skills supports concrete realization of ideal expression.

It's not enough just to augment artistry and performance skill. One needs to consider and chose suitable expressions based on knowledge and sensitivity, and then create them through performance. For example, even if one deems a certain expression B to be better than A, one might not know how to use the body and mind to achieve it. When this happens, inefficient practice methods may make it very difficult to achieve expression B, or choosing an incorrect way to use the body may make it impossible to realize it. PEAC reveals performance skills that are difficult to recognize and verbalize by visualizing, analyzing, and comparing touch, pedal, and body movements. By doing so, PEAC supports the concrete realization of the ideal expression by enabling students to effectively learn proper use of their bodies while avoiding faulty practice methods, and by making it possible to precisely and efficiently convey and hand down to learners the tacit knowledge of the instructors.

Four programs optimized for the artist's position and objectives

PEAC consists of six components, including lectures on the workings of the mind and body, performance coaching, technology-based practice and teaching aids, and advanced training for measuring and breaking through the limits of physical function. Based on this curriculum, we have prepared various programs that support more efficient practice and coaching, and inquiry into expression that are geared toward people in different positions and with different goals. They include aspiring performers who are practicing daily, the instructors and educational institutions who teach them, and those who are already active as performing musicians.

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