The @Percussion Podcast - Episode 35 Kate Burns

035 - Kate Burns

With us today is Kate Burns, duo partner of our very own Ben Charles.  They stopped by JMU during a Virginia concert and masterclass tour.  Though there were shenanigans in the forms of cooking, card games, and sight-seeing, we found time to record an episode.

Topics: Keiko Abe, musicians' anxieties and ways to cope with them, commissions

0:00 Intro and hello
1:05 Megan’s percussion/dance collaboration project
5:45 Kate and Ben’s duo project
8:02 David Pegel duo commission, communication in the commission process
17:52 Ben: Keiko Abe
22:47 Kate’s experience studying with Keiko Abe
25:07 Favorite Keiko pieces, pedagogical value, etc.
32:55 Chamber music playing
38:55 Laurel: Nervousness vs. anxiety / techniques for overcoming them in music
55:08 Visualizing and playing in a new space
1:01:13 Pre-performance rituals
1:04:49 Lucas Garner: Do you own a marimba? If so, how and when did you go about purchasing it? When do you recommend a student purchase an instrument of their own?
1:13:19 Wrap