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The Australian National University
2004 Graduate Music Symposium

September 24-25, School of Music, Rehearsal Room 3

PROGRAM


Friday 24 September

9.00-9.30	Coffee/Tea
9.30-10.00	Session 1: Round table – Introductions
10.00-11.00	Session 2: Papers Kirsty Gillespie: ‘On structure and change in Duna vocal music’
11.00-11.15	Coffee/Tea
11.15-12.45	Session 3: Papers Silvana Abecasis Requena: ‘The piano music of the Argentine composer Carlos Guastavino’ Alison Duncan: ‘Medieval non-mimeticism in the post-1976 vocal works of Arvo Pärt’
12.45-2.00	LUNCH
2.00-3.30	Session 4: Key-note Address: Dr. Rosalind Halton. 'Tradition and transmission: recovering lost repertoires of the 17th century.'
3.30-4.00	Coffee/Tea
4.00-5.30	Session 5: Panel discussion. Amy Chan, Kirsty Gillespie, Rani Olafsdottir will present position papers on the topic ‘Tradition: transmission, loss, reinvention’. This will be followed by an open panel discussion (Chair: Dr Adam Chapman, Centre for Cross-cultural Research)
6.00	CONFERENCE DINNER
8.00	'Salut baroque' concert in Llewellyn Hall. Student rush price $15.

Saturday 25 September

9.00-9.30	Coffee/Tea
9.30-11.00	Session 6: Papers David Brennan: ‘Singers speak: interviews with opera performers’ Max Holzner: The United States and the development of concert-giving in colonial Australia. Marguerite Boland:
11.00-11.15	Coffee/Tea
11.15-12.00	Session 7: Papers Wendy Hiscocks (assisted by Dr Roy Howat), ‘Arthur Benjamin and the exotic’
12.00-1.30	LUNCH
1.30-2.30	Session 8: Workshop/Discussion Topic: The role of performance, composition and pedagogy in research degrees.
2.30-3.00	Closing Session, drinks.

Our key-note speaker, Rosalind Halton, studied harpsichord while completing a doctorate at Oxford University, and has performed as solo and continuo harpsichordist in Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Since 1986 she has been based in Australia, where she has continued a career giving equal emphasis to performance and research. Her solo CD 'The French Harpsichord' (ABC Classics) received a Soundscapes recording award in 1997. Rosalind is also known as an editor and performer of Italian baroque vocal music, work resulting in a double CD of previously unrecorded cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti, 'Olimpia', which she edited and directed with leading Australian performers—an undertaking greeted internationally as a major contribution to the field. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Performance and Musicology at the University of Newcastle.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

• There is NO registration fee for this symposium.

• Morning and afternoon tea/coffee will be provided. Low-cost lunches are available on and around campus, and a low-cost dinner Friday evening will be organised. Dinner Saturday evening will take place at a BYO restaurant, and the maximum cost will be $30.

• On Thursday 23 September there will be a screening of the silent film, Ballet mécanique, with Antheil’s music performed by the ANU Drumatix ensemble. This will take place at the National Gallery, and free tickets for Symposium participants will be made available on request.

• Accommodation: there is a possibility of billeting and there is a range of cheap rooms around in Canberra. We will help you find suitable accommodation.

• Buses from Sydney/Melbourne arrive at the Jolimont centre situated only 5-10 minutes walk from the School of Music. A bus takes you from the Canberra Airport into East Row, which is also about 10 minutes walk from the school (see information on the ANU home page at http://campusmap.anu.edu.au/getting_there.asp

For further information on billeting and accommodation, tickets for the Antheil performance, and other general information please contact Rani Olafsdottir r.olafsdottir@anu.edu.au

To submit proposals of papers, and for information on the content and organization of the program, please contact Deborah Crisp deborah.crisp@anu.edu.au