Rocke, Stephanie, Davidson, Jane W., and Krause, Amanda E. (2025) Wellbeing in Professional Chamber Music Performance Contexts. Musicology Australia. (In Press)

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Abstract

The factors influencing wellbeing for musicians, audience ­members, and concert venue staff in professional chamber music performance contexts are considered using exploratory data collected from a major Australian concert venue. Preliminary analysis of interview and survey data revealed a key topic of wellbeing, amongst other emergent themes. The wellbeing-relevant data were explored from a critical realist/contextualist approach using thematic analysis and directed qualitative content analysis. The data were also examined from the perspective of Martin Seligman’s PERMA model of wellbeing. Results indicate that in chamber music contexts, musician wellbeing was enhanced by a sense of meaningfulness and joy, and influenced by concerns about preparation, reputation, and environment. Audience data revealed nine key areas that influence wellbeing although the thematic profile was distinctly different between innovative and traditional ensembles. Venue staff revealed both eudaimonic attitudes of service and empathy and hedonic responses to the musical performances. The results provide useful frameworks for further study or when considering ways to develop new and existing forms of chamber musicking to enhance wellbeing. Further investigation of the ensemble–music–audience relationship that aims to understand the potential for interactions mediated by live music to influence wellbeing is likely to generate rich data of broad interest.

Item ID:	85686
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1949-453X
Keywords:	well-being, wellbeing, chamber music, classical music, chamber musicians, classical musicians, live music, performance, classical music venues, classical music audiences, audience research, social and applied psychology of music, music psychology, psychology of music, recital hall, arts venue,
Copyright Information:	© 2025 the Author(s). Published by Informa UK limited, trading as Taylor & Francis group. This is an open Access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. the terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Date Deposited:	02 Jun 2025 22:10
FoR Codes:	36 CREATIVE ARTS AND WRITING > 3603 Music > 360304 Music performance @ 40% 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5205 Social and personality psychology > 520505 Social psychology @ 60%
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