Symposium Schedule

All events are in the Edward Johnson Building
Registration: Main lobby
Symposium location: Room 330 (3rd Floor)

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Wednesday, 4 May 2011

  9:30am Registration
10:30am Symposium Opening

10:30am Paper Session:
Re-Presenting Selves through Music

Britney Spears' Vocalizations:
Mediating Sexual Transitions and Exchanges
Hilary Evans, University of Toronto

Challenging the Labels by Marketing to a Virtual Community:
Jonathan Coulton's Geek Rock
Peter Shirts, University of Michigan

Presenting... the Iyomante:
Ainu ritual dance re-voiced and redressed
Nate Renner, University of Toronto

12:30pm Performance:

Exploring the Unexplored, Shady Sides of A Cappella Jazz
Broulala
(Andrea Kuzmich, Christine Duncan, Juliet Palmer, Jessica Steward, Tyson Kerr, Simmon Li, Jocelyn Barth)

1:00pm Paper Session:
Vocalizing Traditions and Transgressions

What's in a Name?
An Exploration of the Terminology Used to Describe Breathing for Singing in Vocal Pedagogy Texts from Vennard to Miller and Beyond
Shannon Coates, University of Toronto

Empowering the Singer with Choices:
New Arranging Methods for A Cappella Jazz
Andrea Kuzmich, York University

2:00pm Lecture Recital:

"The Speaking Pianist":
A Fresh Approach to the Piano Recital Tradition
Andy Costello, McGill University

3:00pm Paper Session:
Compositions Then and Now

Contemporary Kun Opera Composition
Juliane Jones, University of British Columbia

The 'Art Music' Album and Twenty-First Century
Pre-Compositional Space: Nico Muhly's Mothertongue
Patrick Nickleson, University of Toronto

"Reflections in a mirror":
Eastern and Western Aesthetics in Takemitsu and Cage
Vivian Luong, McGill University

4:45pm Lecture Recital:

Performance and visual interpretation of Udo Kasemets' Trigon:
Progressions in the tradition and modality of communication
Sandra Joy Friesen and Werner Friesen, University of Alberta

6:00pm Wine and Cheese Reception:

Featuring Don McLean, Dean,
Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

Performance
Wikileaks
Ben McConchie, University of Toronto

8:00pm Social Night (Location TBD)

Thursday, 5 May

9:00am Continental Breakfast

9:30am Special Session:
Culture of Sax

Performance: Filth for Two Baritone Saxophones
Jeff Weston, Bowling Green State University

Paper: Chercher [Body of] Noise:
Two pieces for saxophone and electronics borrowing from
Gilles Deleuze's concept of Figurality
Jimmy LeBlanc, McGill University

Lecture-Recital: East Meets West: The David Loeb Saxophone Concerto
Scott Litroff, Stony Brook University

11:15am Keynote Address:

David Mott, York University
"Discovering the Unknown within the Known in Music"

12:45pm Performance:

Sloide
Timothy Vallier, State University of New York at Stony Brook

1:00pm Paper Session:
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Compositions

Sibelius Six, Finale: Re-contextualizing the Classical Narrative in a
Pre-Modern Symphonic Movement
Caitlin Martinkus, McGill University

Orpheus as Queer Icon in Early Modern Italy
Jesse Revenig, Northwestern University

Paradoxical Linking of soundscape and environmental acousmatic
Travis Ellrott, State University of New York, Stony Brook

2:45pm Lecture Recital:

Expressing Itself:
Neo-Classical Aesthetics and Stravinsky's Elegy for solo Viola
Alexander MacLeod, University of Toronto

3:30pm Paper Session:
Music Education in a Hybrid World

Improvisation as Critical Pedagogy in Music Curricula
Megan Parent, School for Studies in Art and Culture - Music,
Carleton University

Culture in Flux, Music Education as Constant:
Reexamining Music Curriculum in the 21st century
David Biedenbender and Samuel Richards, University of Michigan

4:30pm Lecture Recital:

Comparison of the two editions of Berio's Sequenza I for solo flute
Enrico Sartori, State University of New York, Stony Brook

5:15pm Wrap-up & Evaluation