Karin Greenhead

• Embodiment and music/movement relationships of various kinds, the practice of Dalcroze Eurhythmics, its applications and the training of it’s teachers.
• Phenomenology (especially hermeneutic phenomenology) as a philosophy and as a research methodology
• Music education, performance, teaching and learning
• Improvisation and the role of the teacher’s improvisation in teaching Dalcroze Eurhythmics.
• The problem of the undervaluing of practical know-how and hands-on skill. Looking at the nature of practical practices and how the tacit knowledge involved in them and teaching and learning can be shown. Identifying the obstructions to valuing the practical. Writing about experience
• Practitioner-Researcher issues. Promoting the value of practice and practical know-how as of equal importance to academic research
• Ethnography
• Project: Useful techniques for managing mild, post-surgical lymphoedema; pilot development of a training programme for sufferers
• Project: Translation of works by or relating to Dalcroze and Dalcroze Eurhythmics from the original language into English and from French into a range of languages in countries where Dalcroze training exists but publications are inaccessible ot students.

• Director of Studies, The Dalcroze Society (1985 – present)
• Teacher, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (1984 – 2019)

Received funding to present at ISME (2012, 2008, 2006) from RNCM and the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, Geneva and from Dalcroze Australia for ISME 2006.

Received funding from the Insitut Jaques-Dalcroze for leading the team that produced the document “L’identité Dalcrozienne/the Dalcroze identity” 1st. (2011) and 2nd. (2019) editions (available online from the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze, Geneva.

Received funding from RNCM to present at the SEMPRE workshop (2011) at GSMD “Stepping out of the shadows: practitioners become researchers” and for “the Reflective conservatoire” conferences held at GSMD in 2006, 2009, 2015.

Received funding to present at two conferences in 2013 both at Coventry University:  The Conference in Dance and Somatic Practices and the First International Conference in Dalcroze Studies (ICDS1)

Received funding from RNCM to present at ICDS2 (Vienna, 2015) and the IJD centenary conference (2015) (co-funded by the IJD) and ICDS3 (Canada, 2017) (Co-funded by Dalcroze Canada).

Received funding from the hosts of the following conferences:

Fundación Pública Andaluza Barenboim-Said, Sevilla. January 27^th 2017.

10th National Core Teacher’s Training Program of New Systems Music Education Symposium on Music Education, Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, China, 7 – 9 September 2015.

European Rhythmik congress. Akademie Remscheid, Germany, 2015.

International Japanese Dalcroze Society Congress, 2014

Europäischer Rhythmikkongresse, 2009. Universität Für Musick und Darstellende Kunst, Wien.

Symposium sulla Didattica Strumentale. 2005 Conservatorio di Latina, Italy

Received fee waiver from RNCM to undertake PhD, RNCM with Manchester Metropolitan University (Thesis 2019, completed 2020)

• For the last few years I have not taught Undergraduates at RNCM
• TLCMD: 3rd and 4th year BMus Instrumental and Vocal teachers and Creative Musician courses
• Amsterdam Conservatoire. Dynamic Rehearsal for the Flutes at all levels.
• Hansei University, Seoul UG and PG
• Since March 2020 – online teaching and training adults; introductory and professional courses in Dalcroze Eurhythmics (DE) (Winter Warmers; Spring into Dalcroze and an online Summer Course) and Dynamic rehearsal (DR) at all levels from introductory to UG and PG students.

• Dalcroze UK: PG Professional Studies: Dalcroze Eurhythmics, rhythmics, improvisation, aural training, plastique animée, written work, presentation, performance and pedagogy. For all levels. Ongoing.
• Dalcroze Canada: Professional training intensives. Ongoing
• Dalcroze Eurhythmics International Examination Board: International Licence programme. Ongoing
• Many training and Dynamic Rehearsal workshops in other universities and conservatoires including: Longy College of Music (Cambridge, MA); Hansei University (South Korea); Nagoya College of Music (Japan); University of Taipei (Taiwan); University of Barcelona; Yong Seow Toh conservatoire (Singapore); Conservatoria in Italy: Ferrara, Modena, Pescara, Perugia, Latina; Istitut Llongueras, Barcelona, Spain;
• Online teaching, training, examination and seminars Masters option programme DE and DR at RNCM and for the University of Barcelona, DAlcroze UK, ICDS (online) and programmes in the US.

TLCMD second supervisor for Danusia Adamska: MMus

IJD, Geneva Masters supervisor for Jerison Harper Lee (2015) and Julia Martín Arias (2019)

RNCM Supervisory team for Rosalind Ridout (2020 continuing). Masters Students Ann Miller and Susanne Alsey.