Research

I think of myself foremost as a pianist and teacher; my research is a way to explore how great piano playing works. Below are a couple of projects available online:

Rector, M. (2021). Performing Structure: Tempo in Glenn Gould’s “Goldberg Variations”. Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie [Journal of the German-speaking Society of Music Theory]18(Sonderausgabe [Special Issue]), 79-112.

https://www.gmth.de/zeitschrift/artikel/1121.aspx

Rector, M. (2020). Historical Trends in Expressive Timing Strategies: Chopin’s Etude, Op. 25 no. 1. Empirical Musicology Review15(3-4), 176-201.

https://emusicology.org/article/view/7338