Music therapy and performance anxiety in piano student: intervention proposal.

Abstract

A high percentage of piano students of the Conservatory of Superior Grade suffer from performance anxiety, which is detrimental to their artistic interventions on stage, which reveals the importance of inserting music therapy programs in Conservatories to help future performers to manage and improve the symptoms coming from performance anxiety. By means of music therapy combined with cognitive-behavioral therapy, several tools and activities are offered that can provide ideas to the scientific community and to music therapists interested in helping this type of users. To this end, a search has been made for the different methods used to address performance anxiety in general terms, in addition to looking for specific music therapy methods. The lack of specific bibliography on music therapy with cognitive-behavioral therapy reveals the need to research and develop this topic.