Academic Publications:
Cohen, S. & Ginsborg, J. (in preparation). The experiences of late-career professional orchestral musicians: Hanging up or hanging on to your hat?
Cohen, S., Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (2022). An interpersonal approach to subjective views of aging. In M. Diehl, A. Shrira & Y. Palgi (Eds.), Subjective views of aging: Theory, research and practice. International Perspectives on Aging, vol. 33 (pp. 115–132). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11073-3_7
Cohen, S. & Ginsborg, J. (2022). One year on: The impact of COVID-19 on the lives of freelance orchestral musicians in the United Kingdom. Frontiers in Psychology, 13,885606. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.885606
Cohen, S., & Panebianco, C. (2022). The role of personality and self-efficacy in music students’ health-promoting behaviours. Musicae Scientiae, 26(2), 426–449. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864920966771
Cohen, S., & Ginsborg, J. (2021a). The experiences of mid-career and seasoned orchestral musicians in the UK during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 645967. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645967
Cohen, S., & Ginsborg, J. (2021b). The impact of COVID-19 on mid-career freelance self-employed orchestral musicians in the UK. Journal of Music, Health and Wellbeing, Special Edition: Music in the wake of COVID-19: Challenges, adaptations and new practices. https://www.musichealthandwellbeing.co.uk/
Cohen, S., & Bodner, E. (2021). Flow and music performance anxiety: The influence of contextual and background variables. Musicae Scientiae, 25(1), 25–44. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864919838600
Cohen, S., & Bodner, E. (2019a). The relationship between flow and music performance anxiety amongst professional classical orchestral musicians. Psychology of Music, 47(3), 420-435. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735618754689
Cohen, S., & Bodner, E. (2019b). Music performance skills: A two-pronged approach – facilitating optimal music performance and reducing music performance anxiety. Psychology of Music, 47(4), 521–538. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735618765349
Cohen, S., Gilboa, A., Bergstrom-Nielsen, C., Leder, R., & Milstein, Y. (2012). A multiple-perspective approach to graphic notation. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 21(2),153-175. http://doi.org/10.1080/08098131.2011.629733
Conference presentations:
*Ginsborg, J. & Cohen, S. (2025). Professional music performers’ thoughts about life post-retirement. Paper presented at 43rd Annual Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) International Symposium, Washington, USA.
*Cohen, S., & Ginsborg, J. (2025). Ageing in the orchestral workplace: The experiences of late-career salaried and self-employed UK musicians. Paper presented at Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) conference, hybrid online/Manchester, UK.
*Ginsborg, J., Cohen, S., & Upjohn, S. (2025). Healthy music-making through the life-course. Paper presented at Arts In Motion (AiM) Symposium, Munich, Germany.
*Hoffman, Y., Bodner, E., Cohen, S., & Shrira, A. (2024). Hospital staff ageism and older patients’ subjective views of aging jointly predict future health. Paper presented at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting (GSA), Seattle, USA.
*Cohen, S., & Ginsborg, J. (2024). Late-career professional orchestral musicians: Hanging up or hanging on to your hat? What can we learn from the world of sports? Poster presented at ESCOM 12 Music Psychology Conference, York/Melbourne/La Plata/on-line.
*Ginsborg, J. & Cohen, S. (2024). The experience of ageing among professional classical musicians. Paper presented at 42nd Annual Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) International Symposium, London, UK.
*Ginsborg, J. & Cohen, S. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 on the lives of freelance orchestral musicians Sempre 2021. Paper presented at Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE), hybrid online/Manchester UK conference.
*Cohen, S., & Ginsborg, J. (2021). One year on: the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of freelance orchestral musicians. Paper presented at International Symposium on Performance Science, hybrid online/Montreal conference.
*Cohen, S., & Ginsborg, J. (2021). What can we learn from the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of self-employed orchestral musicians in the UK? Paper presented at ICMPC16-ESCOM11 Conference, on-line.
*Cohen, S., & Bodner, E. (2020). Skills for empowering trainee music therapists to develop confidence in their musical abilities. World Congress of Music Therapy, on-line.
*Cohen, S., & Bodner, E. (2019). When performing music becomes a source of anxiety. Arts based methods to access salutogenic coping, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
*Cohen, S., & Bodner, E. (2018). Flow and music performance anxiety: The influence of contextual and background variables. ICMPC 15/ ESCOM 10 Music Psychology Conference, Graz, Austria.
*Cohen, S., & Bodner, E. (2017). Music Performance Skills: Facilitating Flow and Reducing Performance Anxiety. 25th Anniversary Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Ghent, Belgium
*Cohen, S., & Bodner, E. (2015). The relationship between music performance anxiety and flow amongst professional classical musicians, and its clinical implications. Ninth Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, Manchester, UK.
*Cohen, S., & Bodner, E. (2014). Can music therapy reduce music performance anxiety and facilitate peak musical performance? World Conference of Music Therapy, Krems, Austria.