Elements and Performance Criteria
- Use personal practice time to refine skills
- In consultation with appropriate personnel, identify strengths and weaknesses in own performance skills
- Develop a practice plan and strategies that incorporate realistic goals as a basis for refining performance technique
- Identify repertoire that will help achieve technical and expressive development goals and incorporate them into practice plan
- Ensure that practice routine makes best use of resources
- Use private practice to continuously develop technical control of chosen instrument to enhance musical expression and refine individual style
- Experiment with and exploit repertoire and exercises to continuously refine technical accuracy
- Listen critically to own performance to assess technical strengths and weaknesses and adjust practice regime accordingly
- Ensure that practice is undertaken with due consideration to personal health and safety
- Plan repertoire to meet performance goals
- Research new repertoire to identify pieces or works that advance performance scope and skills
- Use opportunities to trial new work for peers and/or mentors and incorporate their critical feedback into private practice
- Practise a range of pieces or works that focus on identified areas of technical development
- Include new pieces from a range of repertoire for listening and private practice to identify options for repertoire development
- Use technical skills to convey interpretive and expressive qualities in performance
- Use control of the chosen instrument to interpret music convincingly and realise the expressive qualities of the instrument in performance
- Consistently and reliably demonstrate control of sound production across the range of repertoire for the selected musical style
- Continually extend physical coordination and control over the instrument to produce a highly accomplished standard of performance
- Listen to own work critically to produce accurate intonation and tone colour across the dynamic range of the instrument
- Present a professional performance program to an audience
- Undertake appropriate psychological and physical warm-up and warm-down activities to enhance short and long-term performance outcomes
- Interpret music from memory, improvisation or reading from charts or musical notation as required
- Perform a range of instrumental techniques in a fluent and confident manner to a professional performance standard
- Control intonation, rhythm, tempi, expression, phrasing and nuance to a professional performance standard appropriate to the repertoire and musical style
- Perform in a variety of instrumental and/or vocal combinations, including works in solo and group performances
- Maintain stage fitness to ensure a professional technical standard in performance
- Evaluate technical skills in performance