Mentoring advanced composers in an orchestral workplace setting

What is it about?

This paper discusses ways expert composers share from their extensive experience to help emerging composers enter and develop their own practice. It draws on the notion of sharing promisingness (what's likely or unlikely to work) as developed by Bereiter and Scardamalia in their work on expertise development (Surpassing Ourselves, 1993).

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Why is it important?

The work of a creative artist involves balancing the practical and the innovative. To effectively teach and prepare future artists in any discipline, we need to understand how established artists manage those tensions and help learners find their own effective ways to manage those tensions.