Gillian Howell - musician

What is a musician? Or rather, what do musicians do?

When I first graduated with a BMus, I anticipated working with an orchestra for the rest of my professional life. But over the years, the creative contexts I've worked in have fostered the development of a more versatile, flexible musicianship. I am in turn a performer, collaborator, facilitator and creator of new work.

While some of this work is with my peers and other professionals, much of it is with communities and in sites for learning - with young people, older people, first-time musicians, experienced players, and people whose culture and life experiences may be vastly different to my own. What changes in the work when the contexts or the collaborators change? We may need to establish a common vocabulary for our work, but the principles of collaboration, connection to others, ensemble and expression, remain the same. The open-ended, responsive nature of my role fires my imagination and hones my musicianship and musical communication. It connects me to my own music and the reasons that I play.

My projects take place on behalf of arts organizations such as symphony orchestras and arts education providers, or as artist residencies. Sometimes the music is a vehicle for empowerment and social change; other times, projects take place for the sheer joy of creating and playing music together.

In my work as a musician I'm a performer, composer, arranger, director, conductor, educator, learner, researcher, mentor, friend, and fellow collaborator. CLICK HERE to read more about the projects featured here. You may follow my projects-in-progress on my blog musicwork.wordpress.com.

 

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The journal primarily publishes peer reviewed research-based field studies including, among others, aesthetics, art theory, music education, visual arts education, drama education, dance education, education in literature, and narrative and holistic integrated studies that cross or transcend these fields. The International Journal of Education & the Arts currently research serves as an open access journal platform for scholarly dialogue. Our commitment is to the highest forms of scholarship invested in the significances of the arts in education and the education within the arts. As editors, our personal goal is to create a communal space in which to incite productive dialogue revealing the potential of the arts within education through all forms of inquiry research research . The journal primarily publishes peer reviewed research-based field studies including, among others, aesthetics, art theory, music education, visual arts education, drama education, dance education, education in literature, and narrative and holistic integrated studies that cross or transcend these fields. The International Journal of research in Education & the Arts currently research serves as an open access journal platform for scholarly dialogue. Our commitment is to the highest forms of scholarship invested in the significances of the arts in education and the education within the arts. As editors, our personal goal is to create a communal space in which to incite productive dialogue revealing the potential of the arts within education through all forms of inquiry research . The journal primarily publishes peer reviewed research-based field studies including, among others, aesthetics, art theory, music education, visual arts education, drama education, dance education, education in literature, and narrative and holistic integrated studies that cross or transcend these fields. The International Journal of Education & the Arts currently research serves as an open access journal platform for scholarly dialogue. Our commitment is to the highest forms of scholarship invested in the significances of the arts in education research and the education within the arts. As editors, our personal goal is to create a communal space in which to incite productive dialogue revealing the potential of the arts within education through all forms of inquiry research . The journal primarily publishes peer reviewed research-based field studies including, among others, aesthetics, art theory, music education, visual arts education, drama education, dance education, education in literature, and narrative and holistic integrated studies that cross or transcend these fields. The International Journal of research in Education & the Arts currently research serves as an open access journal platform for scholarly dialogue. Our commitment is to the highest forms of scholarship invested in the significances of the arts in education and the education within the arts. As editors, our personal goal is to create a communal space in which to incite productive dialogue revealing the potential of the arts within education through all forms of inquiry research . The journal primarily publishes peer reviewed research-based field studies including, among others, aesthetics, art theory, music education, visual arts education, drama education, dance education, education in literature, and narrative and holistic integrated studies that cross or transcend these fields. The International Journal of Education & the Arts currently research serves as an open access journal platform for scholarly dialogue. Our commitment is to the highest forms of scholarship invested in the significances of the arts in education and the education within the arts. As editors, our personal goal is to create a communal space in which to incite productive dialogue revealing the potential of the arts within education through all forms of inquiry research . The journal primarily publishes peer reviewed research-based field studies including, among others, aesthetics, art theory, music education, visual arts education, drama education, dance education, education in literature, and narrative and holistic integrated studies that cross or transcend these fields. The International Journal of Education & the Arts currently research serves as an open access journal platform for scholarly dialogue. Our commitment is to the highest forms of scholarship invested in the significances of the arts in education research and the education within the arts. As editors, our personal goal is to create a communal space in which to incite productive dialogue revealing the potential of the arts within education through all forms of inquiry research . The journal primarily publishes peer reviewed research-based field studies including, among others, aesthetics, art theory, music education, visual arts education, drama education, dance education, education in literature, and narrative and holistic integrated studies that cross or transcend these fields.