The Opener - sharing the performer’s process

The Opener - sharing the performer’s process was a one-year artistic research pilot project (March 2024 - March 2025) funded by strategic funds at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Music and Design, University of Bergen. It was part of the Grieg Academy Research Group for Performance and Interpretation (GAFFI) together with external members from The Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. The project consisted of 8 sub-projects and educational activities, involving different instruments: piano solo, violin, duos with voice and piano, clarinet, accordion and guitar.The term opener can in this project proposal symbolize a three-fold meaning connected to the music performance field. This project seeks to- see the performer as an opener of musical meaning in a performance (interpretation of musical intentions in scores and improvisation)- challenge ourselves as performers as openers that share his/her artistic work (getting insight into the creative process and methods)- finding openers as tools to reveal and show the creative process of performers (ways of showing the artistic process) keywords: Edvard Grieg, Franz Schubert, J.K.Merz, teaching music, Sergej Rachmaninov, Ilja Zeljenka, performance research, voice and piano, violin method, piano, accordion, guitar, music interpretation, performance education, language in performance, reflection on performance, Performance studies, KMD_Grieg