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Program

Registration is now closed for lunch and receptions, but you can still participate in the symposium! All presentations and concerts are free and open to the public.

View the complete program PDF with abstracts:PDF icon Illuminations, conference program (for download)

October 27, 2017 (day 1)

9:30-10:00Registration, Tanna Lobby

*A bonus event at the symposium will be an open masterclass (co-presented by the festival«Les ateliers contemporains»)withconductor Guillaume Bourgogne ofSeven Images for Twenty-two Players(1971), featuring the 91˿Ƶ Contemporary Music Ensemble, 9:00-10:00am Pollack Hall

10:00 Opening of Cherney Score Exhibition in the Marvin Duchow Library

Welcome message from Aiyun Huang

Introduction on the exhibition - remarks by Cynthia Leive

11:00-12:30 Conference Session #1, A832 -Session Chair: Taylor Brook

1100-11:30 David Adamcyk: “Mind and God in Cherney’sIlluminations

11:30-12:00 Brian Cherney: “How I Might Have Become a Composer”

12:00-12:30 David Jaeger:“Commissioning Brian Cherney's String Trio”

12:30: 1:30 Lunch(Faculty Lounge, A833)

1:30-3:00Conference Session #2, A832 -Session Chair: Chris Paul Harman

1:30-2:00 Zosha Di Castri: “Music as Refuge: Stillness in Brian Cherney’s Mature Piano Works"

2:00-2:30 Taylor Brook: “Meaning and Expression in the Chamber Music of Brian Cherney”

2:30-3:00 John Beckwith:“Brian Cherney as composer and collaborator”

3:00-3:30 Coffee break, A833

3:30-4:30Conference Session #3, A832 -Session Chair: Zosha Di Castri

3:30-4:00 Robin Elliott: “Brian Cherney as Scholar and Creative Artist”

4:00-4:30 Matthew Ricketts: “Text—Textures—Intertexts: Brian Cherney’sTransfiguration

5:00-6:00Concert #1, Tanna Hall (curated through Call-for-proposals)

Gan Eden(1983) for violin and piano —Wapiti Ensemble

ٴDZäԲ(1991) for two flutes —Claire Marchand & Marilène Provencher-Leduc, flutes

Shekhinah(1988) for viola solo —Marina Thibeault, viola

6:00-7:00 Cocktail hour, Tanna Lobby

October 28, 2017 (day 2)

10:30-12:30 Conference #4, A832 -Session Chair: Matthew Ricketts

10:30-11:00 Arlan N. Schultz: “Brian Cherney: Transcendent Pedagogy and the Spiritualization of Technique”

11:00-11:30 Christoph Neidhofer: “Ontological and Psychological Time in Brian Cherney’s String Quartet No. 4”

11:30-12:00 Anton Vishio: “‘I dig through to you’: Brian Cherney, Paul Celan, and a Music of Witness”

12:00-12:30 Brian Cherney in Conversation with Chris Paul Harman

12:30-2:00Lunch, A833

2:00-4:00 Concert #2, Tanna Hall

Quartet No. 3 (1985) —Molinari Quartet

Like Ghosts from an Enchanter Fleeing(1993) —Chloé Dominguez, cello; Jean Marchand, piano

[Break]

Twenty-Two Arguments for the Suspension of Disbelief(2010) —Nu:BC

String Trio (1976) —Joshua Peters (violin), Marina Thibeault (viola), Carmen Bruno (cello)

7:30pm Concert #3, Pollack Hall

Seven Imagesfor Twenty-two Players(1971) —91˿Ƶ Contemporary Music Ensemble (director: Guillaume Bourgogne)

Tombeau(1996) — Julia Den Boer, piano

Intermission

In Gottes Gärten schweigen die Engel(2006; revised 2017) —91˿Ƶ Percussion Ensemble with Paul Vaillancourt andJessica Gauthier (soprano)

Playing for Time(1981) —Kyoko Hashimoto (piano), Aiyun Huang (percussion),Jacqueline Leclair (oboe)

9:30-10:30pm Closing Reception, Clara Hall

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