Royal Musical Association Annual Conference 2011 - Horizons
14-16 July 2011
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Programme and registration details are available on the conference website:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/mfm/research/music/rmahorizonsconference
Booking deadline 12 June 2011; later bookings subject to a 10% surcharge.
The Royal Musical Association <http://www.rma.ac.uk/> Annual Conference on
the theme of Horizons will be hosted by the University of Sussex Music
Department in association with the Centre for Research in Opera and Music
Theatre and Glyndebourne.
The conference features keynote and invited addresses/performances from:
Tim Carter (David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of Music, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - The Peter Le Huray Lecture: 'Lost Horizons?
Monteverdi and the Problems of Biography'
Simon McVeigh (Goldsmiths, University of London) - 'The Impact of 'Impact':
Music Research and its Publics'
David Owen Norris (University of Southampton) - Mendelssohn recital
performed on a rare 1828 Broadwood Grand Piano
Graham Hobbs (Publishing Director for Arts, Humanities and Education,
Routledge) - 'New Horizons in Musicology Publishing?'
Nicholas Till (Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre, University of
Sussex) with colleagues from Glyndebourne - 'New operatic forms for
participatory and community opera'
The programme also features an optional trip to the Glyndebourne Festival
production of Donizetti's Elisir d'Amore; three dedicated sessions on opera;
a roundtable plenary on New Horizons in Composition and Sonic Media and a
demonstration of Schenker Documents Online under the theme of 'Analysis in
the Digital Age'.
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Dr Nicholas McKay
Head of Music
Senior Lecturer in Music
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton,
BN1 9RQ, U.K.
Tel: +44 (0)1273 678137
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