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BEETHOVEN DIABELLI VARIATIONS SYMPOSIUM
TUESDAY 28 JUNE 2011 (11am-6pm)
Ø Leading performers and scholars, with special guests Stephen Kovacevich and William Kinderman, will gather for an exciting and unique symposium next week, devoted to Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, on Tuesday 28 June 2011, Great Hall, King's College London.
Ø William Kinderman, Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, whose ground-breaking study of the 'Diabelli' appeared in 1987 (OUP, revised 2008), recently wrote commentary to a newly published Facsimile of the Autograph and First Edition (Beethovenhaus Verlag 2010) and also inspired Moises Kaufman's '33 Variations', the a play shown on Broadway starring Jane Fonda in the role of the Kinderman-styled musicologist. William Kinderman introduces the Symposium with a Keynote Lecture and closes the event with a Lecture-Recital.
Ø Renowned concert pianist Stephen Kovacevich, in conversation with Alberto Portugheis, compares his 'Diabelli recordings, separated by a period of 40 years apart, then joins a panel of Beethoven scholars and pianists to discuss interpretation.
Ø Well-known Beethoven scholars and interpreters including Nicholas Marston, Barry Cooper and Julian Jacobson and share their expertise alongside younger musicologists, to shed new light on the sources, sketches, strategies and structures of one of the great masterpieces of Beethoven's late style and of the repertoire of piano variations.
Ø Amongst the highlights is a lunchtime recital 'A Survey of "also-ran" Diabelli Variations by Beethoven's Contemporaries', by Professor Malcolm Troup, BPSE Chairman.
A full programme for the event may be found at www.music.sas.ac.uk <http://www.music.sas.ac.uk/> and www.bpse.org <http://www.bpse.org/>
The event is presented by the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe, in association with
The Institute of Musical Research, University of London, and King's College, London
10.30am- 6pm, 28 June 2011, Great Hall, King's College, London, Strand WC2R 2LS
Registration Fee - £10; BPSE/ISM/EPTA members - £8 (Includes light lunch and Refreshment);
All Students and Members of King's College, London - Free (Lunch and refreshments £4).
All fees payable at the door.
For Booking and information: [log in to unmask] or contact IMR, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
Booking is open until 28 June 2011 but we would appreciate advance notice for catering arrangements.
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