This new kind of performance experience for college and university music students is designed to apply some tools from The Performing Mind™ seminar to improve not only the student's performances, but to also improve their experience of their performances as well, and lead them toward being able to be more responsible for their own preparation, evaluation, and improvement.

The students present a recital, then have a class session where we discuss the goals and objectives they had, and try to discover the assumed (unconscious) goals they had for their performance. Then they refine their goals and make them much more specific and testable. Some new preparation techniques are demonstrated and discussed, and students are encouraged to add guided imagery to their preparation.

Later (one or two days, or even later that day), the recital is presented again, hopefully for a new audience. Afterward, a class session is held where they evaluate their performance against their goals and objectives.

The instructor is Michael Kysar, although involving a resident faculty member will extend the benefits long after the initial Master Class. For details on Michael, see his Biography.

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