Why are some performers exhilarated and energized about performing in public, while others feel a crushing sense of fear and dread, and experience public performance as an overwhelming challenge that must be endured? What are the factors that produce such vastly different performance experiences? Why have consummate artists like Frederic Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pablo Cassals, Tatiana Troyanos, and Barbra Streisand experienced such intense music performance anxiety? This is a disorder that c...

• 1:Phenomenology of Music Performance Anxiety
• 2:Conceptual framework
• 3:The Anxiety Disorders
• 4:Defining Music Performance Anxiety
• 5:Epidemiology of Music Performance Anxiety
• 6:Theoretical Contributions to Understanding Music Performance Anxiety
• 7:Treatment
• 8:Severe Music Performance Anxiety: Phenomenology and Theorizing
• 9:Common Themes in the lives of performing musicians
• 10:Prevention and Pedagogy