CMPCP/IMR Seminars
A series of workshops and seminars promoted by the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice (CMPCP) in association with the Institute for Musical Research (IMR).
Open to the public, free of charge; no booking required.
Autumn Term 2014
| Date | Time | Location | Details | Speaker(s) | Abstracts |
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13 October 2014 |
17:00-18:30 | Chancellor's Hall, Senate House | Off the Page c.1700/c.2014 | Stevie Wishart (CMPCP Visiting Fellow) | |
| 20 October 2014 | 17:00-18:30 | Chancellor's Hall, Senate House | Early Recordings and the De[con]struction of Brahmsian Performance Norms | Anna Scott (Orpheus Institute) | |
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15 December 2014 |
17.00-18.30 | Chancellor's Hall, Senate House | Performing lost repertoires: seventeenth-century French keyboard music from the perspective of Mersenne's 1636 clavichord | Terence Charlston (RCM) | Download |
Summer Term 2014
| Date | Time | Location | Details | Speaker(s) | Abstracts |
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12 May 2014 |
17:00 - 18.30 | Senate House, Chancellor's Hall |
Christian Wolff discusses his music Followed by a short concert |
Christian Wolff Chair: Paul Archbold (IMR) |
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19 May 2014 |
17:00 - 18.30 | Senate House, Room 102 | Articulation and legato in Beethoven's string writing |
Claire Holden (Cardiff University)
Chair: John Rink (University of Cambridge) |
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27 May 2014 |
17:00 - 18.30 | Senate House, Chancellor's Hall | Method, influence and individuality: Bartók and early twentieth-century piano pedagogy |
László Stachó (The Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest and CMPCP Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge)
Chair: John Rink (University of Cambridge) |
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| 2 June 2014 | 17:00 - 18.30 | Senate House, Chancellor's Hall | Composer and performer: an experimental turn and its consequences |
Tom Armstrong (University of Surrey) with Simon Desbruslais (University of Oxford)
Chair: Mine Dogantan Dack (Middlesex University) |
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| 16 June 2014 | 17:00 - 18.30 | Senate House, Chancellor's Hall | A short history of key noise at the piano: its technical and aesthetic implications |
Ian Pace (City University London)
Chair: John Rink (University of Cambridge) |
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| 30 June 2014 | 17:00 - 18.30 | Senate House, Chancellor's Hall |
Séverine Ballon Lecture-recital: Rebecca Saunders 'Solitude' |
Séverine Ballon
Chair: Paul Archbold (IMR) |
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Spring Term 2014
| Date | Time | Location | Details | Speaker(s) | Abstracts |
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27 January 2014 |
17:00 - 18.30 | Senate House, Room 102 |
Performing reality through Australian indigenous epistemologies of ceremonial law |
Aaron Corn (Australian National University) Chair: Tina K Ramnarine (RHUL) | |
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10 February 2014 |
17:00 - 18.30 | Senate House, Room G37 | The practice of creative performance |
Karen Wise, Mirjam James, John Rink (Cambridge)
Chair: John Rink (Cambridge) |
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| 17 February 2014 POSTPONED | 17:00 - 18.30 | Senate House, Chancellor's Hall | The pianist as actor: embodying hybrid knowledge |
Paul Barker (Central School of Speech and Drama) and Alban Coombs
Chair: Mine Dogantan Dack (Middlesex) |
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| 24 February 2014 | 17:00 - 18.30 | Senate House, Chancellor's Hall | Tempo relationships in eighteenth-century music - historically-informed creativity? |
John Butt (Glasgow)
Chair: Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (KCL) |
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| 24 March 2014 | 17:00 - 18.30 | Senate House, Room 102 | Completing Mozart fragments: on musicology and forgetting |
Tim Jones (RAM)
Chair:Paul Archbold (IMR) |
Autumn Term 2013
| Date | Time | Location | Details | Speaker(s) | Abstracts |
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7 October 2013 |
17:00-18:30 | Room 104, Senate House | Hearing the continuum of sound | Salomé Voegelin (London College of Communication) | |
| 28 October 2013 POSTPONED | 17:00-18:30 | Room G34, Senate House | The practice of creative performance | Karen Wise, Mirjam James and John Rink (University of Cambridge) | |
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31 October 2013 |
18:00- 19:00 | MV1, Maida Vale studios, Delaware Road, London W9 2LG | Tristan Murail. The distinguished French Composer discusses his music | Tristan Murail | |
| 11 November 2013 | 14:00-16:00 | Chancellor's Hall, Senate House |
Lecture/demonstration: 'Schatten aus Wasser und Stein' |
Christopher Redgate and Brian Ferneyhough | |
| 9 December 2013 | 17:00-18:30 | Chancellor's Hall, Senate House | What might Schechner's Performance Studies and the emerging field of Performance Philosophy mean for Music? | Laura Cull (University of Surrey) |
