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Speaker:

Professor Robert Blocker, Yale University

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Topic:

The Creative Impulse : Pathway to Your Distinctive Musical Voice

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Keynote Speech

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Keynote Speech

3:15pm - 4:45pm

Paper Session I - Performance & Creativity

Speaker:

Caitlin R. JOHNSON, Royal Academy of Music

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Topic:

The Finale You Can Smell?
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

3:15pm - 3:45pm

3:45pm - 4:15pm

Speaker:

Joshua NEUMANN, University of Florida

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Topic:

Consistency of an Enigma: Nello Santi and Turandot’s Riddles at the Metropolitan Opera

4:15pm - 4:45pm

Speaker:

Mark DOFFMAN, University of Oxford

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Topic:

Time consciousness and creative performance in contemporary music

5:00pm - 6:00pm

Paper Session II - Contemporary Music

Speaker:

James WILLIAMS, University of Derby

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Topic:

Sharing Creative Performance: Collaborative Alternations between Ensemble and Live Electronics

5:00pm - 5:30pm

5:30pm - 6:00pm

Speaker:

Yini JIN, Shanghai Conservatory of Music

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Topic:

Study of Concord String Quartet by George Rochberg

1.Three pairs of Polarities in Music
2.Balance of Polar Opposites

31 October (Monday)                                                 Recital Hall(AST916),HKBU

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1 November (Tuesday)                                               Recital Hall(AST916),HKBU

10:30am - 12:30am

Paper Session III - East-West Music

10:30am - 11:00am

Speaker:

Adilia On-ying YIP, Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp, Belgium; Orpheus Institute, Gent, Belgium

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Topic:

Music Beyond Traditions:
Research into the performance practice of ethnic and Western music

Speaker:

Alexander John VILLANUEVA, University of the Philippines

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Topic:

Off Key: Modern imageries for the Filipino Traditional Kundiman

11:00am - 11:30am

11:30am - 12:00pm

Speaker:

POON Kiu Tung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Topic:

Chinese-Western Syncretism: On Performing Chen Yi’s Ba Ban (1999)

12:00pm - 12:30pm

Speaker:

Benjamin M. JOY, The Ohio State University

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Topic:

Scenes of the American West in Contemporary Solo Trumpet Literature

Speaker:

Professor John Rink, University of Cambridge

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Topic:

Creative Reflections on/in Musical Performance

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Keynote Speech

3:15pm - 4:45pm

Paper Session IV - Sources & Performance

Speaker:

Connie LUK, Hong Kong Baptist University

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Topic:

The creativity of Chopin’s teaching of his nocturnes as revealed by original sources

3:15pm - 3:45pm

3:45pm - 4:15pm

Speaker:

Yan ZOU, Shanghai Conservatory of Music

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Topic:

Creative Analysis, Creative Performance: A Case Study of the First Movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in G, Op.14/2

4:15pm - 4:45pm

Speaker:

Chris David WESTOVER, Denison University

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Topic:

Deconstructing Authenticity in Three Urtext Editions of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, op. 67

Professor Gabriel Kwok,The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts

10:30am - 12:30am

Piano Masterclass               Academic Community Hall,HKBU

Concert: Mozart & Caldara (Admission by Ticket)

8:00pm - 9:30pm

                                           Concert Hall, Hong Kong City Hall

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Melvyn Tan

10:00am - 12:00pm

Piano Masterclass               Academic Community Hall,HKBU

2 November (Wednesday)                                         Recital Hall(AST916),HKBU

10:00am - 11:30am

Paper Session V - Cultural Issues & Pedagogy

Speaker:

Leo PHILIPS, Silpakorn University, Bangkok

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Topic:

Thoughts on some of the common challenges encountered teaching Western Classical music in Asia.

10:00am - 10:30am

10:30am - 11:00am

Speaker:

Kaoru MISHIMA, Kyoto City University of Arts

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Topic:

Bias against ‘early music’ and ‘HIP’: focus on articles in Japanese music magazines

11:00am - 11:30am

Speaker:

Cameron Kirk RUSH, College of Music, Mahidol University

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Topic:

A Western Perspective on Successfully Working with Asian Ensembles and Students

Speaker:

Professor David Schulenberg, Wagner College

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Topic:

Expression and Discrétion: Performing the Music of Froberger and Bach Today

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Keynote Lecture Recital 

Speaker:

Professor Anna Reid, Sydney Conservatorium of Music

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Topic:

What is creative in music performance

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Keynote Speech

Performing Creativity: Current and Future Perspectives

3:30pm - 4:30pm

Roundtable

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