August 5–9, 2015
Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Calendar of Events

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Wednesday, August 5

10:30 am – 12:30 pm
B20 Lincoln Hall
Young Pianists’ Workshop (read more)
Pianist Blaise Bryski (bio) offers an introduction to the many pianos of the Classical and Romantic repertoire. Participants will have an opportunity to try the instruments. This workshop is free and open to the public.
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Lincoln Hall Atrium (Basement Level)
Registration
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
B20 Lincoln Hall
Welcome and opening concert (read more)
Pianists Olga Pashchenko (bio), Monica Jakuc Leverett (bio), and David Kim (bio) perform music by Beethoven, Marie Bigot, Chopin, J. B. Cramer, Schumann, and Maria Szymanowska.
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Schwartz Center
Concert (read more)
Pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout (bio) performs music by C. P. E.  Bach and Mozart.

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Thursday, August 6

9:00 am – 11:30 am
B20 Lincoln Hall
Lectures: Past and Present Meanings of Performance Practice (more)
Session Chair: James Webster (Cornell University)

9:00 am – 9:45 am
Malcolm Bilson (Cornell University, bio)

50 Years of Early Pianos: How Far Have We Come; Where Should We Be Going?

9:45 am – 10:30 am
Rebecca Cypess (Rutgers University, bio) and Yiheng Yang (bio)

Fortepiano/Harpsichord Duos: Performance Practices and Cultural Meanings in the Circle of Sara Levy (1761–1854)

10:30 am – 10:45 am
Break

10:45 am – 11:30 pm
Tom Beghin (Orpheus Institute and McGill University, bio)

Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata Opus 106: Legend, Difficulty, and the Gift of a Broadwood Piano

1:00 pm – 1:25 pm
Barnes Hall
Lecture
Ryan MacEvoy McCullough (Cornell University, bio)
Shadowplay and Doppelgängers in Works for Piano and Electronics
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Barnes Hall
Concert (read more)
Pianists Tom Beghin (bio) and Andrew Willis (bio) perform four-hand music by Moscheles, and pianists Ryan MacEvoy McCullough (bio) and Andrew Zhou (bio) music for piano and electronics by Georg Friedrich Haas, Rand Steiger, and John Luther Adams.
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
B20 Lincoln Hall
Builders & Performers (read more)
The Fortepianos of Conrad Graf as Viewed by his Contemporaries
Piano restorer Edward Swenson (bio) recounts the success story of the Graf pianos in the nineteenth century, with performances by pianist Stefania Neonato (bio) on Graf Fortepiano Opus 1389.
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
B20 Lincoln Hall
Master Class (read more)
Pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout (bio) gives a master class featuring young professionals and advanced learners.
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Schwartz Center
Concert (read more)
Pianists Hardy Rittner (bio), Anthony Romaniuk (bio), and Jiayan Sun (bio) perform music by Beethoven, Chopin, Mason, MacDowell, and Siloti.

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Friday, August 7

9:30 am – 12:00 pm
B20 Lincoln Hall
Lectures: Pianists and Their Pianos (read more)
Session Chair: Neal Zaslaw (Cornell University)

9:30 am – 10:15 am
Erin Helyard (Australian National University, bio)

“To Prevent the Abuse of the Open Pedal”: Meticulous Pedal Markings from Madame du Brillon to Moscheles

10:15 am – 10:30 am
Break

10:30 am – 11:15 am
Sandra Rosenblum (independent scholar, bio)

Chopin’s Response to Different Pianos

11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Maria Rose (RILM, bio)

Dussek and His Contemporaries in Paris: “Le Retour à Paris”

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
B20 Lincoln Hall
Concert (read more)
Features pianist Penelope Crawford (bio) with Martha Guth, soprano (bio), and pianist Sezi Seskir (bio) with Lucy Russell, violin (bio), performing music by Mozart and Schubert.
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
B20 Lincoln Hall
Builders & Performers

David Sutherland, piano builder (bio)

The pianoforte in the first half of the eighteenth century: Florentine pianos, the instruments they inspired across Europe, and the music composed for them.

Antonio Simón, pianist (bio)

Francisco Pérez de Mirabal’s pianos: experiment or established practice?

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
B20 Lincoln Hall
Concert (read more)
Pianists Erin Helyard (bio) and Olga Witthauer (bio) perform music by Clementi and Dussek.
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Schwartz Center
Concert (read more)
Pianist Alexei Lubimov (bio) performs music by Debussy, Satie, and Stravinsky.

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Saturday, August 8

8:30 am – 10:00 am
B20 Lincoln Hall
Lectures: Eighteenth-Century Piano Culture (read more)
Session Chair: Sezi Seskir (Bucknell University)

8:30 am – 9:15 am
Tilman Skowroneck (University of Gothenburg, bio)

The Quest for “Support Personnel”: Viennese Fortepiano Maintenance for the Ladies, and by the Ladies

9:15 am – 10:00 am
Carmel Raz (Columbia University, bio)

The Keyboard of Ideas: Musical Performance in Enlightenment Philosophy of Mind

10:00 am – 10:30 am
Break

10:30 am – 12:00 pm
B20 Lincoln Hall
Master Class (read more)
Pianist Alexei Lubimov (bio) gives a master class featuring young professionals.
1:30 pm – 3:00pm
B20 Lincoln Hall
Concert (read more)
Pianists Shin Hwang (bio), Michael Pecak (bio), and Petra Somlai (bio) perform music by Kurpiński, Lessel, Schubert, Schumann, and Szymanowska.
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
B20 Lincoln Hall
Builders & Performers
Piano maker Paul McNulty (bio) and pianist Viviana Sofronitsky (bio) present a variety of instruments designed after eighteenth- and nineteenth-century pianos.
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Schwartz Center
Reunion Concert (Part I) (read more)
Pianists Malcolm Bilson (bio), Tom Beghin (bio), David Breitman (bio), Ursula Dütschler (bio), Bart Van Oort (bio), Zvi Meniker (bio), and Andrew Willis (bio) reunite for an evening of music by Beethoven, two decades after their complete recording on period instruments of the composer’s piano sonatas.
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Schwartz Center
Reunion Concert (Part II) (read more)
Pianists Malcolm Bilson (bio), Tom Beghin (bio), David Breitman (bio), Ursula Dütschler (bio), Bart Van Oort (bio), Zvi Meniker (bio), and Andrew Willis (bio) reunite for an evening of music by Beethoven, two decades after their complete recording on period instruments of the composer’s piano sonatas.

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Sunday, August 9

9:00 am – 10:30 am
B20 Lincoln Hall
Lectures: Improvisation and Concert Life (read more)
Session Chair: Roger Moseley (Cornell University)

9:00 am – 9:45 am
Gili Loftus (McGill University, bio)

“À la Clara”: Thinking through Clara Schumann’s Hands

9:45 am – 10:30 am
Shaena Weitz (City University of New York, Graduate Center, bio)

Monochromatic and Polychromatic Performance: Piano Improvisation in Early Nineteenth-Century France

10:30 am – 11:00 am
Break

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
B20 Lincoln Hall
Roundtable: Teaching Pianos in Universities and Conservatories

Annette Richards (Cornell University), chair

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Schwartz Center
Concert (read more)
Features pianists Frédéric Lacroix (bio), Liv Glaser (bio), and Mike Lee (bio) with R. J. Kelley, natural horn, and Lucy Russell, violin (bio), performing Hexameron, music by Grieg, and Brahms’s Horn Trio, op. 40.

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Break

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Schwartz Center
Anniversary Concert (read more)
Pianists Matthew Bengtson (bio), Tuija Hakkila (bio), and Miri Yampolsky (bio) perform music by Scriabin (1872–1915) and Sibelius (1865–1957).

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