In Rethinking the Well-Tempered Clavier (WTC) Pasichnyk seeks to get new insights into the interpretational process and to make a contribution to the renewal of methods of working with a musical text. The project aims to find a new way to communicate meaning found in music, to broaden the role of the pianist to a co-creative one, and to unfold a new facet of the understanding of the WTC by J. S. Bach. The project’s initial inspiration was Boleslav Javorsky’s idea that the main foundation of the WTC is the protestant chorales, and that the WTC is an artistic interpretation of images and plots of the Bible.
You can read more about the project on our Norwegian site og Research Catalogue.
Personalia
Natalya Pasichnyk (Grieg Academy, UiB) is one of Europe's leading concert pianists and a prize winner in several international piano competitions. She regularly gives master classes and is invited as a jury member at international piano competitions. OPUS magazine twice (2014, 2022) listed her as one of Sweden's most influential cultural personalities.
Supervisors: professor Einar Johannes Røttingen (KMD), Johannes Landgren (Royal College of Music) and associate professor Hans Knut Sveen (until 2020).