Anna Détári holds her Bachelor and first Master’s degree from flute performance from the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest and the University of Pecs, Hungary. She took part in masterclasses with Aurele Nicolet, Andras Adorjan and Istvan Matuz. After graduation, she worked as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician as well as a flute teacher and wind band conductor. She was the member of the Hungarian National Operetta Theatre’s orchestra for four years, and led a successful freelancing career, focusing primarily on contemporary music. She played the first performances of many solo flute and chamber pieces and took part in masterclasses led by Gyorgy Kurtag and Laszlo Sary.
In 2010 she suffered from Musician’s Focal Dystonia (MFD), which made her unable to play her instrument. After four years of experimenting, she managed to retrain herself returned to her musical career. Soon she started to help other MFD sufferers to regain their former ability. The experience turned her interest towards music psychology, and she wished to conduct in-depth research on the condition.
In 2017 she got accepted to the Royal College of Music (London, UK) and completed an MSc in Performance Psychology with distinction. She continued her research as a Ph.D. candidate at the University of York (UK), focusing on the role of psychological, environmental, and behavioural factors in the onset of MFD. She is interested in creating a new, holistic framework to understand the condition, including music educators in the process of rehabilitation and educating them on preventative strategies.
She is the winner of the University’s PhD Spotlight Competition in 2019 for communicating her research to lay audiences, her presentation won the ESCOM Best Contribution prize at the International Conference of Students in Systematic Musicology in the same year, and her research was awarded the Alice G. Brandfonbrener Young Investigator Award offered by the Performing Arts Medicine Association in 2020. She presented at international conferences, such as the 4th International Congress on Treatment of Dystonia, in Hannover, Germany, and the International Symposium on Performance Science, in Melbourne, Australia.
Anna’s research is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom and the Music Department at the University of York.
Since 2015, Anna also works as a coach for musicians who suffer from MFD and collaborates with other successful practices to aid musicians. Her rehabilitation strategies are based on her personal experience and scientific research. She is also interested in body mechanics and somatic approaches and currently is in training as a Timani Level 1 teacher.
Anna's website: www.musicians-focal-dystonia....
If interested in participating in her research (whether dystonic or not), please feel free to reach out to me and I can forward you to her as well!
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