Education
Keio University Graduated School of Media and Governance D1
Profile
Aiko Watanabe is a saxophonist and an Alexander Technique teacher (ATI certified). She graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. She performs in various forms, including solo, chamber, brass band, and orchestra. She was a former part-time lecturer at Ogaki Women’s Junior College, Department of Music, and at Mie Prefectural Shiroko High School, where she taught the brass band course. During her performance activities, she felt stuck in her own method of playing and teaching, so she became a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, a mind-body educational technique. Through encounters with many musicians who had fallen into serious performance difficulties but were still striving to improve their performance, she developed a strong interest in the physical reactions of performers during performance, and enrolled in the master’s program at SFC. Currently, she is a member of Shinya Fujii’s lab, where she conducts research to find scientifically based ways to improve musicians’ performance.
Project
Elucidation of brain and autonomic nervous system activities and development of biofeedback techniques that lead musicians to a high-performance state
Publications
1. Watanabe, A., Kondoh, S., Samma, T., & Fujii, S. Enhanced subjective performance achievement in wind instrument playing through positive memory recall: Effects of sympathetic activation and emotional valence. bioRxiv, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.12.628097
Conference Posters
- 渡邊愛子, 三摩朋弘, 近藤聡太郎, 藤井進也. 自伝的演奏記憶の想起がパフォーマンス評価及び心拍変動に及ぼす影響. 第18回Motor Control研究会, 2024年8月22-24日
- Watanabe, A., Samma, T., Kondoh, S., Fujii, S. Effects of recalling autobiographical music performance memories on performance self-evaluation and heart rate variability. The Neurosciences and Music – VIII: Wiring, re-wiring, and well-being. Helsinki, Finland, June 13-16, 2024.
- Watanabe A., Samma T., & Fujii S. Effects of recalling positive and negative music performance memories on subjective performance achievement and heart-rate variability: A pilot study.The Joint Conference of the 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 7th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC17-APSCOM7). Nihon University, Japan, August 24-28, 2023. [Sempre Award 受賞]
- 「音が変わる！うまくなる！たのしい吹奏楽」２巻『楽器別アドバイス』（学研プラス）
- 「THE SAX」 vol.89 特集『音が良くなる呼吸法』(アルソ出版）
- 「うたの雑誌ハンナ」 2020年春号 No.50 (ハンナ)
Awards
SFC大学院相磯賞, 2024年度
Sempre Award, The Joint Conference of the 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 7th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC17-APSCOM7). Nihon University, Japan, August 24-28, 2023.
Contact
aikow[at]keio.jp
Links
http://aiko-holistic-lesson.com
Twitter@NeuroMusicLab