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KEYBOARD INSTITUTE
An Enviable Reputation for Excellence

By nurturing the talents of the musicians of tomorrow, The Australian National University’s Keyboard Institute broadens the horizons of keyboard art.

Goals Structure and Location Research A Place to Study

The Keyboard Institute is built upon The ANU School of Music’s long-established distinction in keyboard performance. Through national and international partnerships, the Keyboard Institute reaches out to students, scholars, professional musicians and the broader community of music lovers who have a passion for keyboard music, ranging from western music’s past to cutting edge innovation and contemporary practice. The Keyboard Institute provides an environment where keyboard related activities occur, such as: - Performance (including performance practice, improvisation and jazz), - Pedagogy and composition, - Research, and - Instrument making and restoration. In collaboration with the ANU Centre for New Media Arts, the Keyboard Institute continues to respond to the challenge of the ‘new’.

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GOALS

The goals of the Keyboard Institute are to:

- Promote keyboard performance, keyboard composition, and keyboard related research activity to the local, national and international community,
- Be a national centre of keyboard pedagogy and historically informed performance practice, and
- Facilitate and create unique collaborations and partnerships with the new media arts.

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STRUCTURE AND LOCATION

The Keyboard Institute is located within the School of Music and is a place dedicated to the study of keyboard instruments, a research facility and a concert organisation. Its relationship and location within The Australian National University ensures a productive exchange with a diversity of instrumental and musicology studies.

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RESEARCH

Research into the complexities associated with music and musicmaking empowers creative musicians to better understand the works that they wish to perform. It also offers stimulation to the imagination, and both enables musical scores to be interpreted and music to be made in a richly contextualised way.

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A PLACE OF STUDY

By providing specialised musical education, professional training and research contexts at the highest levels, the Keyboard Institute enables students to develop skills, knowledge, understanding and resourcefulness which will equip them to contribute significantly to cultural life both in Australia and internationally.

The Keyboard Institute offers courses of study in ‘period’ keyboard instruments, historically informed performance practice, pedagogical keyboard methods, and the care and maintenance of keyboard instruments.

Graduates of the Keyboard Institute will join the numerous distinguished alumni of The Australia National University’s music program, including many who are currently at the forefront of keyboard performance and scholarship both internationally and nationwide.

The Keyboard Institute provides opportunities for learning within the context of one-on-one lessons, workshops, lectures, colloquia, symposia and concerts provided within the framework of the Institute’s program of studies.

Scholars at the Keyboard Institute will have access not only to leading Australian and international master-teachers, virtuoso scholar-musicians, specialist keyboard instrument makers and restorers but also to the instrumental resources which make up the Institute’s unique keyboard collection.