Mine Döantan-Dack is a musicologist and concert pianist. Mine has published many articles on the phenomenology of live performing, dynamics of chamber music performance, pianistic touch, methodology in artistic research, history of music theory, and several edited books including Recorded Music: Philosophical and Critical Reflections (2008), Artistic Practice as Research in Music (2015 Routledge), Music and Sonic Art (2018), Rethinking the Musical Instrument (2022) and The Chamber Musician in the Twenty-First Century (2022). She performs as a soloist and chamber musician and recorded the music of JS Bach and Scriabin for WNCN. Mine is the founder of the Marmara Piano Trio and received an award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for her work on chamber music performance. Mine is also the artistic director of the London-based chamber orchestra Ensemble Vita Nova.