Website: http://www.nus.edu.sg/performersvoice
From the 25th - 28th of October, the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore will host the second Performer's Voice Symposium, Horizons Crossing Boundaries.
The first international performance symposium in 2009 attracted 170 delegates from 22 countries (6 continents) and featured 65 presentations in relation to its four points of focus: Towards Performance; Beyond the Score; My Instrument - My Voice; Asian Voices. Subsequent to the initial symposium, a website was established ( theperformersvoice.org ) and a publication of selected proceedings edited by the symposium's convener Dr. Anne Marshman was published by Imperial College Press ( 'Performers' Voices Across Centuries and Cultures').
The second symposium brings together plenary speakers, performers and ensembles from four continents including Key Note Speaker Prof. John Rink (Cambridge); performers Joe Burgstaller (Peabody, USA), Colin Currie (UK), Paul Dean (ANAM, Australia), James Morrison (Australia), Qin Li-Wei (Singapore) , Melvyn Tan (UK / Singapore) ; presenters Darla Crispin (Orpheus Research Centre in Music, Belgium), Stephen Emmerson (Queensland Conservatorium, Australia), Michael Musgrave (Julliard School, USA), Anothai Nitibhon (Silpakorn University, Thailand), Kia-Hui Tan (Ohio State, USA) and ensembles Ang Mo Faux, Orchestra of the Music Makers, Size Zero Opera and T'ang Quartet.
Call For Presentations
For details of the symposium, please visit http://www.nus.edu.sg/performersvoice
Building on the successes of the first symposium and on its points of focus, the specific theme for the 2012 symposium is Horizons Crossing Boundaries, as we seek to explore multifarious emerging continuums: from mainstream to experimental, notated to improvised, classical to jazz, world, alternative, pop and/or multi-media, acoustic to electronic, local traditional to contemporary global, canon to contemporary, performer to scholar, west to east and east to west.
Though interdisciplinary in scope, the symposium’s emphasis on the act of performance and the role of the performer gives it a distinct focus. Proposals with a clear emphasis on performance or involving elements of performance are preferred. Given the symposium's themes, presentations that draw on personal, reflective experience-based insights into performance are as encouraged as those shaped from more traditional approaches to research. The deadline for submission is Friday 15 April 2012.
