Søren Rastogi
Søren Rastogi is an Associate Professor of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg. He has a highly active career as a performing musician, both as a soloist, accompanist, and chamber musician. In parallel, he is deeply engaged in developing pedagogical and artistic practice at the conservatory level with projects like “FormingPerforming” and “The Art of Interpretation,” which have opened new paths on practice and interpretation for performing musicians in artistic work.
Watch videos about Søren’s
teaching activities.
Videos used as a basis for reflection on the practice process in dialogue with the instructor
What is the teaching activity about?
What digital tools were included, and what advantages/disadvantages do you experience in that setup?
How have you experienced it as a meaningful activity?
What is it in the teaching activity that makes it relevant and engaging for the students?
What challenges have you experienced in the teaching activity?
How have you worked with the organization on the learning platform? And what kind of communication did you experience on the platform between you and the students and amongst the students themselves?
How do you work on changing practice and behavior amongst the students? And how do you balance between introducing new elements in your teaching or ‘doing as usual’?
Do you think the students experience a radically changed practice or that it is built ‘on top of’ existing practice?
How has it worked for the students to see themselves ‘from the outside’ when they watch themselves on video recordings?
Video used for recording improvisation exercises in relation to artistic expression
What is the teaching activity about?
What digital tools were included, and in what way?
How have you experienced it as a meaningful activity?
How have you experienced it as a relevant activity for the students?
What challenges have you experienced in the teaching activity?
Make Practice Perfect – 10-week course focusing on practice and improvisation
What is the teaching activity about?
Find Søren’ materials here:
Optimize your practice – 10 lessons
Optimize your pratice – elective curriculum
What digital tools were included, and in what way?
How have you experienced it as a meaningful activity?
How have you experienced it as a relevant and engaging activity for the students?
What challenges have you experienced in the teaching activity?
What would you do differently if you were to conduct the same teaching activity and course again?
Other reflections and experiences
How has your role as a teacher shifted through the various teaching activities?
What are your thoughts on whether this learning approach is particularly suitable for some students and perhaps less suitable for others?
What overall possibilities do you see in relation to the use of digital tools such as video recordings?