[MGSA-L] REMINDER conference on Music, language and identity in Modern Greece

Beaton, Roderick rod.beaton at kcl.ac.uk
Thu May 7 11:32:44 PDT 2015


Announcing an INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
Music, language & identity in Modern Greece: Defining a national art music in the 19th and 20th centuries

Friday 8 – Sunday 10 May 2015
at the Athens Conservatoire and British School at Athens
in collaboration with the Centre for Hellenic Studies and the Department of Music, King’s College London

This event is open to all and free to attend, no booking is required.

Conference web address:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/chs/eventrecords/2014-15/musicnewzxz.aspx

The conference will scrutinise approaches to the creation of national poetry and art music in Greece since the 19th century. It concentrates on absences, complexities and contradictions which arose from efforts to synthesise the indigenous musico-poetic tradition with artistic developments in Western Europe.

Sessions include: Rethinking national music history vis-à-vis the canon of Western art music; Music for a reborn nation: Practices and ideologies; Poets and music; Music and ancient Greek drama in 20th-century performance; Manolis Kalomoirs and beyond; Nikos Skalkottas; Comparative cases (on Nationalism and music; 20th-century music and classical reception; The music of poetry).
A special panel will be devoted to the Athens Conservatoire Archive.
The conference will be accompanied by two concerts.

The conference will be of interest to students of modern Greek poetry and music; ‘the autonomy of music’ and ‘national music’; ‘musical poetics’ of poets; the role of music in the construction of national identity; Balkan music; and more generally cultural approaches to poetry and music.

With the generous financial support of:
The Schilizzi Foundation
The Ouranis Foundation (Ίδρυμα Κώστα και Ελένης Ουράνη)




Speakers:
Burnham, Scott (Scheide Professor of Music History, Princeton University)

Chardas, Kostas (Lecturer, School of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Christodoulou, Nikos (Conductor and composer, Athens)
Corbier, Christophe (Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL), French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris)
Fitzgerald, William (Professor of Latin Language and Literature, King’s College London)
Frolova-Walker, Marina (FBA, Professor in Music History, University of Cambridge)

Kardamis, Kostas (Lecturer, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University, Corfu)

Levidou, Katerina (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Athens, and Visiting Fellow, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London)
Lingas, Alexander (Reader, City University London, and Fellow, European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford)
Mackridge, Peter (Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek, University of Oxford)

Maliaras, Nikos (Professor of Historical Musicology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Mantzourani, Eva (Visiting Lecturer, City University London)

Moore, Keith (Composer, Athens)
Pillinger, Emily (Lecturer in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, King’s College London)

Rentzou, Effie (Associate Professor of French and Italian, Princeton University)

Romanou, Katy (Associate Professor, Music, European University of Cyprus)

Siopsi, Anastasia (Professor, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University, Corfu)

Tambakaki, Polina (George Seferis Research Associate in Modern Greek and Comparative Literature, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London)
Tsetsos, Markos (Associate Professor of the Aesthetics of Music, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Vlagopoulos, Panos (Assistant Professor, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University, Corfu)

Vouvaris, Petros (Assistant Professor, Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia)

Xanthoudakis, Haris (Professor, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University, Corfu)
Xepapadakou, Avra (Lecturer, Theatre and Cinema Studies and Musicology, University of Crete)

The Athens Conservatoire Archive panel:
Charkiolakis, Alexandros (MIAM-Centre for Advanced Studies in Music, Istanbul Technical University)
Daskalopoulos, Panayiotis (independent scholar)
Kourmpana, Stella (PhD candidate, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University, Corfu)
Papastoitsi, Tatiana (Postgraduate student, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University, Corfu)
Sampanis, Konstantinos (Visiting lecturer, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University, Corfu)
Seiragakis Manolis (Lecturer, Theatre and Cinema Studies and Musicology, University of Crete)

Keynote speaker: Giorgos Couroupos (Composer and Artistic Director of the Athens Concert Hall, MMA)


Round Table:
Abazis, Thodoris (Theatre Director-Composer, the Athens Conservatoire; Artistic Director of the Patras Municipal and Regional Theatre)
Beaton, Roderick (FBA, Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London)
Kapsalis, Dionysis (Poet, Director, Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece (MIET), and member of the International Advisory Board, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London)
Stokes, Martin (FBA, King Edward Professor of Music, King’s College London)

Two concerts:
Friday 8 May: Academica Athens Orchestra. Conductor: Nikos Athinaios
Saturday 9 May: Works for voice and piano from the Athens Conservatoire Archive, with the participation of students and teachers of the Athens Conservatoire


Academic Committee:
Roderick Beaton (FBA, Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London), Chair
Katerina Levidou (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Athens, and Visiting Fellow, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London)
Martin Stokes (FBA, King Edward Professor of Music, King’s College London)
Polina Tambakaki (George Seferis Research Associate in Modern Greek and Comparative Literature, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London)
Panos Vlagopoulos (Assistant Professor, Department of Music Studies, Ionian University, Corfu)



Organising Committee:
Roderick Beaton
Catherine Morgan (ΟΒΕ, Director of the British School at Athens, Senior Research Fellow designate, All Souls College, University of Oxford, and Professor of Classical Archaeology, King’s College London)
Polina Tambakaki
Nikos Tsouchlos (President, the Athens Conservatoire, and Associate Professor, Ionian University, Corfu)

Venues:
Friday 8-Saturday 9 May:   The Athens Conservatoire, Aris Garoufalis Concert Hall, 17-19 Vassileos Georgiou II and Rigillis Street, Athens 106 75
Sunday 10 May:                   The British School at Athens, 52 Souidias Street, Athens 106 76

Language:
The conference will be in English


Roderick Beaton
Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and
Literature
Director, Centre for Hellenic Studies
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
UK
tel. 0044 20 7848 2517

Webpage:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/chs/people/academic/beaton/index.aspx

Byron's War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution (CUP, April 2013), now in paperback:
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