Jonathan Ayerst
Zürcher Hochschule der KünsteSince 2000, Jonathan Ayerst has been principal pianist of the contemporary music group Remix Ensemble, based at Casa da Música in Porto, Portugal. In 2024 he was appointed Dozent für Partiturspiel at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHDK) and also organist at the Reformed church in Witikon, Zürich. For many years he has pursued an interest in musical improvisation, focusing on the challenges facing Western classical musicians trained only in reading scores. His PhD thesis, “Learning to Improvise as a Western Classical Musician: A Psychological Study” (2021), is an autoethnographic account of skill-learning in classical improvisation. https://www.zhdk.ch/en/person/jonathan-ayerst-486209
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