SINGING FROM THE PIANO
A Symposium examining how pianists interpret text at the keyboard in song performance
5th Annual Meeting of the SongArt Performance Research Group
ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC, London
Sunday, 8 June, 10.30-6.00pm
All welcome: free admission
Website: http://songart.co.uk/songartevents/singingfromthepiano
Song performance is chamber music – music in which singer and pianist work together as equal partners to interpret, realize, and communicate a unique instance of a song’s musical and literary text. Despite the closeness of this collaborative relationship, however, little is known about the role pianists play in song performance, in particular, in their realization of text at the keyboard. Join us for a day conference and workshop featuring a series of paper-presentations and experimental performance sessions in which pianists, singers, composers, and musicologists explore how pianists respond creatively to poetic texts in song performance from the keyboard.
Presenters include: composer and pianist Paul Barker, musicologist Amanda Glauert, singer and researcher Kathryn Whitney, pianists Libby Burgess, Andrew Matthews-Owen, Imma Setadi, and Tim Watts and singers Cerys Jones, Sarah Leonard, and Carris Jones. Repertoire will include songs by Wolf, Beethoven, Schubert, Paul Barker, Tim Watts, Jonathan Dove and Charlotte Bray.
Further information: mail (at) kathrynwhitney.net
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