MP 2014: Keynote Speakers & Concerts

Saturday 31st May

Keynote Speaker:
Dr Nicholas McKay (Canterbury Christ Church University)
‘Introversive and Extroversive processes: rethinking Stravinsky’s music as dialogue between formalist and expressive paradigm’

Keynote Speaker:
Tom Johnson (Composer)
‘Countless ways of counting’

Keynote Performer:
Michael Bonaventure (piano)
Premiere of Intervals by Tom Johnson; Michael will be joined by Steve Gisby on bass guitar

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Sunday 1st June

Keynote Speaker:
Dr Jane Alden (Wesleyan University)
‘Form as possibility’

Keynote Ensemble:
Vocal Constructivists (dir. Jane Alden)
Performance of graphic and experimental music for voices, including by Cornelius Cardew, Pauline Oliveros and Michael Parsons

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