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McGill Music Graduate Students' Society Symposium

Friday, March 23, 2018toSunday, March 25, 2018
Elizabeth Wirth Music Building 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 1E3, CA
Price: 
Free Admission

The McGill Music Graduate Students’ Society (MGSS) is pleased to announce its thirty-first annual Symposium, which will be held March 23–25, 2018 at the Schulich School of Music in Montréal, Canada.

Our research keynote, William Cheng, is an Assistant Professor of Music at Dartmouth College where he teaches courses in history, media, ethics, disability, race, and digital games. His books include Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Oxford, 2014) and Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good (Michigan, 2016). His keynote address, “Bulletproof Rap, Breakable Skin, and the Ears of Frederick Douglass,” comes from his forthcoming monograph, Why Listening to Beethoven Makes Me Feel So Respectable (and Other Vices of Musical Judgment) (Oxford).

Our performance keynote, Noam Sivan is a notable pioneer of improvisation in the classical music world who has appeared in three continents, giving full-length improvised piano recitals and conducting orchestral improvisations. He is on the faculties of the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute, having founded improvisation courses and produced improvisation concerts in both conservatories. In his keynote address, “The Art of Improvisation,” Dr. Sivan brings back the art of improvisation to the concert hall through live demonstrations in different styles, and calls for its revival in performance and music education.

 

Friday, March 23, 2018
- 1:30pm – 5:00pm: Conference Presentations, A-832
- 5:30pm – 6:30pm: Performance Keynote: Dr. Noam Sivan, Tanna Schulich Hall. Click here for the livestream!
- 6:30pm – 7:30pm: Keynote Reception

Saturday, March 24, 2018
- 9:00am – 11:45am:  Conference Presentations, A-832
- 1:15pm – 2:30pm: Research Keynote: Dr. William Cheng, A-832
- 3:00pm – 4:30pm: Round Table Discussion, A-832
- 5:00pm -5:45pm: Conference Presentations, A832

Sunday, March 25, 2018
- 9:00am – 2:15pm: Conference Presentations, A-832
- 2:30pm - 4:30pm: Round Table Discussion, A-832

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