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Royal Birmingham Conservatoire: PGR Study Day
December 14, 2017
This mini-conference features presentations from PhD students studying at the Birmingham Conservatoire. There is a wide range of topics, and it promises to be an interesting and stimulating day.
Please do come and join us, all welcome!
Schedule overview
Morning Session:
Richard Stenton and Niccolò Granieri | Fostering Microgestures in Piano Playing though the use of Scoring and Text
Shi Ling Chin | The Solo Violin Chaconne in the Twentieth Century
Terezija Stimec | Constructive or destructive? Assessing the impact of feedback in instrumental piano lessons
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Session Two:
Johan Erikson | Automatonism: Extended Modularity In Synthesis Composition
Joe Wright | Investigating Exploratory Sonic Play Through the Design of Digital Instruments With and For Young People on the Autistic Spectrum
LUNCH BREAK
Session 3:
Connor Christie | The Music of Hans Zimmer, US Military Intervention and ‘the other’ in Film: The Sound of the Ungrievable
Luca Battioni | Enforced Sounds: Dubbing in an Italian Fascist Context
Myles Payne | Cittern and the Lute in Elizabethan England
Adrian Horsewood | “An Island entire of itself – yet a Piece of the Continent”: Italian influences on the cappella di musica of Mdina Cathedral, Malta
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Session 4:
Simon Paton | Arkestra of Wolves: Observations into the Practicalities of the Self- Organised Large Ensemble
Conor McElroy | Irish rebel music 1969 – 1995: Motives and agendas
Laurie Shore | The Emergence and Evolution of the Piano Study in the years 1797 to 1837
Hannah Roberts | Clara Schumann as Pedagogue
Bill Hunt | Performance of the Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem
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Concluding Performance: The LAB
Susannah Self | Vivid Stream: Developing ‘live’ Improvisations in Installation Opera