ASSOCIATED PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS
Friday, 9 November
Schulich School of Music of McGill University, 555 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Strathcona Music Building, East Lounge
9:00-12:00 Conducting masterclass on Pierre Boulez’s ...explosante-fixe... with Lorraine Vaillancourt, the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble, and solo flutists Hannah Darroch, Naama Neuman and Marilène Provencher-Leduc. Student conductors include Gabrielle Gaudreault, Adam Keeping and Jeffrey Klefstad.
Thursday, 15 November
Schulich School of Music of McGill University, 555 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Strathcona Music Building, Pollack Hall
20:00 Percussion Studio Concert directed by Fabrice Marandola, featuring three recent compositions for solo percussion by guest composer Bertrand Dubedout as well as works by Jacques Delécluse, Mitchell Peters, Joseph Tompkins, Elliott Carter, Nicolas Martynciow, and Gordon Stout.
International Conference on Mixed Music Pedagogy 2018 (ICOMMP-2018)
www.mcgill.ca/icommp-2018/
16–19 November 2018
McGill University and Université de Montréal
FRIDAY, 16 November
Faculté de musique, Université de Montréal, 200 avenue Vincent-d'Indy
Salle Jean-Papineau-Couture (B-421)
9:00 COFFEE AND REGISTRATION
9:15 WELCOME
9:30 WORKSHOP: Miguel Azguime with Sond’Ar-te’s soloists Filipe Quaresma (cello) and Nuno Pinto (clarinet), “Composing and performing mixed music”
11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:45 PAPER: Mikhail Malt, “The IRCAM Cursus Pedagogy”
12:15 PAPER: Suzu Enns, “From Curiosity to Self-Sufficiency: Mixed-Music Pedagogy and the Performer”
12:45 LUNCH
14:00 WORKSHOP: Bertrand Dubedout, “Developing listening in mixed-music: a compositional and pedagogical challenge”
16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:15 PAPER: Christopher Biggs, Keith Kirchoff, Adam Vidiksis, and Samuel Wells, “Pedagogical Methodologies of the SPLICE Institute: Refining and Extending Creative and Performance Practices Involving Electronics”
16:45 PAPER: Kit Soden, “Investigating the roles of orchestration pedagogy and timbre research in the teaching of mixed music”
17:15 PAPER: Philippe Leroux (prerecorded lecture), “L’enseignement de la musique mixte: nouveaux outils - nouveaux concepts”
SATURDAY, 17 November
Schulich School of Music of McGill University, 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Seminar room A-832
9:30 MASTERCLASS: Miguel Azguime with McGill composers
11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:45 PAPER: Gilbert Nouno, title TBA
12:15 PAPER: Bruno Gabirro, “Mixed music: An instrumental approach”
12:45 LUNCH
14:00 WORKSHOP: Mikhail Malt, “The ‘concert patch’: best practices for composers”
16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:15 PAPER: Julie Delisle, “Le timbre de la flûte traversière comme contrôleur grâce aux descripteurs acoustiques”
16:45 PAPER: Guillaume Boutard, “The potential of cross-self-confrontations for mixed music interpretation pedagogical frameworks”
17:15 PAPER: David Rafferty, “Mixed music pedagogy: Top down, bottom up”
Schulich School of Music of McGill University, 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Pollack Hall
19:00 Pre-concert lecture by Jonathan Goldman with the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble: “From...explosante-fixe...to Mémoriale: themes and seams”
19:30 Concert 1: McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble
Pierre Boulez, …explosante-fixe… (Hannah Darroch, Naama Neuman, Marilène Provencher-Leduc)
Nina C. Young, Out of whose womb came the ice (David Tinervia)
Zhuosheng Jin, First Beam Last Light
21:00 Post-concert reception, A-832
SUNDAY, 18 November
Faculté de musique, Université de Montréal, 200 avenue Vincent-d'Indy
Salle Jean-Papineau-Couture (B-421)
10:00 WORKSHOP: Emmanuel Lizère and Suzu Enns, "Mixed music for young performers"
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 WORKSHOP: Nina C. Young, “Mixed Music: The Intersection of Instrumental Writing and Studio Techniques”
16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:15 PAPER: Naomi Woo, “Genres of Pedagogy in Mixed Music: On Nicole Lizée'sHitchcock Études”
16:45 PAPER: Christopher Dobrian, “Structuring software for interactive computer music performance”
Faculté de musique, Université de Montréal, 200 avenue Vincent-d'Indy
Salle Claude-Champagne
19:30 Concert 2: Université de Montréal, Ensemble de musique contemporaine
Pierre-Luc Lecours, Éclats | Violet
Pierre Michaud, . . . n i e n t e . . .
Bertrand Dubedout, Les cheveux de Shiva
21:30 Post-concert reception, Foyer of Salle Claude-Champagne (TBC)
MONDAY, 19 November
Schulich School of Music of McGill University, 527 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Seminar room A-832
9:30 WORKSHOP: Pierre Michaud and Alain Bonardi, “Comparison of Tools Recently Developed at Paris 8 and Université de Montréal Favoring Collaborative Approaches in Mixed Music Pedagogy”
11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:45 PAPER: Natasha Bogovac, “Biophilia de Björk – Pédagogie interdisciplinaire des musiques mixtes POP”
12:15 PAPER: Alexa Woloshyn, “Strategies and Challenges for Listening Guides on the Canadian Electronic Ensemble”
12:45 LUNCH
14:00 MASTERCLASS: Bertrand Dubedout with McGill composers
16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:15 PAPER: Mathieu Lacroix, “Exploring Different Synchronization Methods & Their Performative and Aesthetic Consequences”
16:45 PAPER: Brice Gatinet, “Comment développer un cursus académique centré sur les musiques mixtes?”
17:15 PAPER: Laurie Radford, “To mix or not to mix: unifying the creative process in composing for instruments and electronics”
Le Gesù, 1200 Rue de Bleury,
Amphithéâtre
19:15 Pre-concert lecture by Miguel Azguime, Guillaume Bourgogne, and Bruno Gabirro (Salle Custeau)
20:00 Concert 3: Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble
Miguel Azguime, (ThS)inking Survival Kit
Miguel Azguime, Trabalhos da madeira (Fabrice Marandola, solo marimba)
Bruno Gabirro, but I have many friends and some of them are with me