OXFORD CONDUCTING INSTITUTE
CONDUCTING STUDIES CONFERENCE 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS
The practice of conducting has significant impact on music-making across a wide variety of ensembles and musical contexts around the globe. Whilst professional organizations and educational institutions have worked to develop the field through conducting masterclasses and conferences focused on professional development, and academic researchers have sought to explicate various aspects of conducting through focussed studies, researchers and practitioners are rarely in dialogue about these findings and experiences.
This conference will explore issues pertaining to the study of conducting from a range of perspectives by bringing together research across a variety of disciplines including musicology, ethnomusicology, music education, philosophy, psychology, anthropology and sociology as well as from practitioners. The tripartite aims of the conference will be to engage researchers and practitioners in productive dialogue, promote practice as research, and raise awareness of the state of research in the field of conducting.
The conference will be held at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford from the 24th-26th June 2016. Guest speakers are still being confirmed.
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for individual papers (20 minutes + 10 minutes for questions) on the following and other topics related to conducting.
- Critical approaches to pedagogy and mentorship
- Leadership, power and authority
- Verbal and non-verbal communication
- Critical views on repertoire and programming
- Enterprise, responsibility and accountability
- The rehearsal and performance process
- Students, amateurs and professionals
- Historical views
- Gender
- Aesthetics of conducting
- Health and wellbeing
- Views from the podium
- Movement and gesture
Please submit a 200-word abstract as an email attachment to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and include the following information:
Name, institution (if applicable), email address and AV requirements.
Deadline for the receipt of abstracts is Tuesday, 1st December 2015.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by Friday, 15th January 2016.
Organizing committee: Dr John Traill, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford; Dr Anthony Gritten, Royal Academy of Music; and Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey, University of Oxford.
This conference is presented by the OXFORD CONDUCTING INSTITUTE in partnership with ST ANNE’S COLLEGE and the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF MUSIC.
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Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey
Music Director | GrassRoots Festival Orchestra & Sinfonia Gaia | www.cayennaponchione.com | google voice: +1 (607) 592-8374
Conducting Associate | Oxford Conducting Institute
Director | Sounding 2020: Commissioning Music for Humanity and the Environment | www.cayennaponchione.com
Doctoral Student in Music | Allen Senior Music Scholar | St Catherine's College, University of Oxford | [log in to unmask] | mobile: +44 (0)7530 234178
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