Conferences: 1979 to Present

Here follows a list of our past major academic programs:

2011

• Improvisation and Organ PedagogyNovember 10-13, 2011 EROI Festival, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY. Please visit EROI website for more information.

• Keyboard Culture in Eighteenth-Century Berlin and the German Sense of History, March 10-13, Ithaca, New York.
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2010

• Playing Chopin His Way: Romantic Pianos and Performance Practice, September 24-26, New Haven, Connecticut.
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• The Eugene Conference: The Netherlandish School of Organ Building and its North American Legacy, April 8-11, Eugene, Oregon.
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  • Conference Program
  • Concert Program

2009

• Mendelssohn and the Contrapuntal Tradition, co-sponsored with the 8th Annual Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) festival, October 29 – November 1, 2009.

2008

• Johann Sebastian Bach and the Organ, a symposium in conjunction with the EROI festival, 16-20 October.
• Publication of the first issue of Keyboard Perspectives, the Yearbook of the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies.

2006

• J. S. Bach and Central/South European Influences: a conference honoring Harald Vogel and celebrating the new Hellmuth Wolff organ of Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, BC.
  • "Westfield Center Conference" by Herbert L. Huestis in The Diapason 97/12 (December 2006)

2005

• The Organ as Mirror of Religion & Culture, Temperament, Sound, and Symbolism, a symposium at the new dual-temperament Pasi organ in Omaha. Co-sponsored with Saint Cecilia Cathedral and The University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
• The Italian Baroque Organ: Context, Instruments, Repertory, Performance, co-sponsored by the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York.

2004

• The Organ and The Pedal Clavichord, A Case-study in Performance and Pedagogy, co-sponsored by the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York.

2002

• Cavaillé-Coll in Oberlin; A Celebration of the C. B. Fisk Organ, co-sponsored with Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
• Beyond Notation: a conference on improvisation in Mozart's time: a conference for fortepianists, co-sponsored by the University of Michigan.

1999

• Organ in the New Millenium, a symposium in Tacoma, Washington in collaboration with Pacific Lutheran University

1998

• Tientos, Tamales & Pajaritos,a Spanish organ workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico

1995

• Spanish Organ Music, a two-part workshop held in Tlaxcala, Mexico and Fremont, California
• Schubert's Piano Music, symposia with public concerts in Washington, D.C., in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution

1992

• The Historical Organ in America, a symposium in Tempe, Arizona, in collaboration with Arizona State University and the American Organ Academy
• Publication of The Historical Organ in America: A Documentary of Recent Organs Based on European & American Models

1991

• Organ Music in Spain's Golden Age, a workshop at Wellesley College
• Mozart's Nature, Mozart's World, bicentenary humanities symposia presented in Boston and five additional sites nationwide, in collaboration with museums, colleges, and other arts and humanities organizations

1990

• Haydn's Piano Sonatas, conference and recitals at Smith College

1988

• Ornamentation in Bach, a workshop for harpsichordists
• Consideration of Style and Technique in Performing Works of Mozart, a workshop for pianists

1987

• Ludwig van Beethoven: The Piano Music of the Middle Period, a workshop for pianists
• From Scheidt to Buxtehude: German Music in the 17th Century, a scholarly conference with public concerts, in collaboration with Wellesley College. Papers from the conference were published as Church, Stage, and Studio: Music and Its Contexts in 17th-Century Germany, edited by Paul Walker, 1990.
Publication of Charles Brenton Fisk: Organ Builder, two volumes

1984

• Publication of Westfield (formerly Early Keyboard Studies Newsletter), the quarterly newsletter of the Westfield Center

1982-1987

• Eight Summer workshops at Wellesley College beginning with Meantone Temperament: A New Horizon