THE MASTERCLASS
The Masterclass “The biological meaning in performig” is aimed to students and professionists who want to deepen and make their interpretation (bio)logical from an all new point of view: the one of the Germanic New Medicine. It aims at improving the musician/interpreter technical performances in conformity with his expressive/biological urges.
The discovery by Giovanna Conti “The biological meaning of music from the point of view of the GNM”, published by “Amici di Dirk-Ediciones de la Nueva Medicina”, is the scientific fundament of this method.
TARGET
Meeting innovative methodologies applicable to Music (like Biology and Medicine from the point of view of the GNM) enables the musician/interpreter to extend knowledge, serving the purpose of:
• Carrying out the study phase with greater capability and ease;
• Reducing both muscular and cerebral effort for learning;
• Enriching the interpretation of one’s repertory from the technical and expressive point of view;
• Appearing in more frequent performances of higher quality level;
• Exploring/innovating the communication processes that represent the foundations of musical form and interpretation.
According to the Germanic New Medicine, Biology offers the musician-interpreter the capability of working out an expressive synthesis referring to the bi-phase course which:
• Represents the work;
• Typifies its author’s experience;
• Naturally pertains to the processes of Evolution of the Species;
• Repeats in the musical form and execution same as any expressive system that imitates and replicates Life.
PIANISM AND TEACHING
The application of this scientific method to the instrument is based on the system “Phenomenology of Piano Technique” by Maestro Américo Pascual Caramuta; at the time of his death, he appointed his then-pupil Giovanna Conti as his “spiritual heir”.
«[…] The Traditional School follows the empirical method, in which the students try to correspond
with musical models and ideals imposed by the Teacher. Each student is rather a biologicalpsychical-
social identity. The Teacher must respect all these three parts of a whole identity, if he
wants to obtain good results. In Music, the mythos of personality isn't important at all;
the real interest is due to the composition itself. I consider interpretation as an act of love…»
From Américo Pascual Caramuta, Interview on the newspaper "Clarín", Buenos Aires, 12/31/1980.