Adapting practice through a pandemic and increasing hearing loss (when you!re not Beethoven!)

Abstract

The journey through 2 years of a pandemic has not been easy for anyone. Everyone has had their own experiences and path through this and for this paper I am tracing one path, my own one, as a composer/performer adapting to increasing hearing loss and to working online. I trace my journey through the past 2 years through the musical works I have been commissioned to write and the projects I have been involved with in a creative capacity. I end the paper in Spring 2022, back to working in person and detail the surprising