Colloquium Archives

Colloquium Archives before the 2008-2009 academic year.

FALL 2008

Gary Tomlinson
Friday, September 12th, 3pm
Kaleidoscope Center
Newcomb Hall, 3rd Floor
Gary Tomlinson Annenberg Professor of Music of the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, "One Million Years of Music,"
co-sponsored by Anthropology, Biology, Linguistics, Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering, and the Special Lectures Committee.

Arman Schwartz
Friday, September 26, 3:30pm
Old Cabell Hall, room 107
Puccini scholar Arman Schwartz.

Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum
Friday, October 3rd, 3:30pm
Old Cabell Hall, room 107
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at Illinois State University and Visiting Scholar in Music at UVa (Fall 2008), "Towards a 'Compound Diaspora': The Urban Bush Women Dance Company's Hybrid Musical Aesthetic"

One-Day Symposium on Performance in Classical Music
Friday, October 10th, 3pm
Old Cabell Hall, room 107
One-Day Symposium on Performance in Classical Music; Richard
Will, Moderator and Speaker, Associate Professor of Musicology at UVa,
"Negotiating Mozart's Contrasts"; Mary Ann Smart, Professor of Musicology at
the University of California, Berkeley, "Comedy versus Convention: Rossini and Regieoper"; Roger Moseley, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Music History at the University of Chicago, "Between Work and Play: Brahms as Performer of His Own Music"

Nic Collins
Thursday November 13th, 4-5:30 pm
Kaleidoscope Room, Newcomb Hall
Nic Collins, Chair of the Department of Sound at the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago

Paul Chihara
Friday,December 5th, 3:30pm
Paul Chihara Professor of Theory and Composition, and Head of
Visual Media Program at UCLA, "Composing for Movies and the Concert Stage:
Surviving The Digital Revolution"

SPRING 2009

Ivica Ico Bukvic
Friday, January 23rd, 3:30pm - 5pm
Old Cabell Hall, room 107
Ivica Ico Bukvic, Assistant Professor in Music Composition and
Technology at Virginia Tech, "Cross-Pollinating Western Oculocentric Bias
and Music: The Aural Painting"

Yiorgos Vassilandonakis
Friday, February 6th, 3:30pm - 5pm
Old Cabell Hall, room 107
Yiorgos Vassilandonakis, Visiting Assistant Professor in Composition at the University of Virginia (Spring 2009) presents "Composing Time and Space"

Brian Hyer
Friday, February 13th, 3:30pm - 5pm
Old Cabell Hall, room 107
Brian Hyer, Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will give a talk entitled "Mimetic Failure and Moral Autonomy in a Schubert Song," in which he offers a new and provocative interpretation of "Die Stadt" as a reenactment of autistic experience avant la lettre. This colloquium has been generously co-sponsored by UVa's Center for German Studies. For more information about Professor Hyer, click here

Kathryn Alexander
Friday, February 20th, 3:30pm - 5pm
Old Cabell Hall, room 107
Kathryn Alexander (CCT), Associate Professor of Composition and Music Technology at Yale University.

Symposium: Opera and Austerity
Film Screening: Friday, February 20th, 7pm, Kaleidoscope Center (Newcomb Hall, Third Floor)
Symposium: Saturday, February 21st, 9am-5pm, Old Cabell Hall room 107

A symposium focusing on issues surrounding operatic staging and film. A screening of scenes from three recent productions on Friday evening will be followed by a Saturday symposium from 9am-5pm in Old Cabell Hall, room 107. Speakers include major figures in opera scholarship, hailing from such institutions as the University of Chicago, Brown, Yale, and Columbia.

Terence Blanchard
Friday, March 13th, 3:30pm - 5pm
Old Cabell Hall, room 107
Terence Blanchard, Grammy Award-winning composer and performer discusses "Jazz in Film".

World Music Summit
Friday, March 27th, 3:30pm - 5pm
Old Cabell Hall, room 107
World Music Summit. "Performing World Music in the Academy," a panel discussion led by UVa's Joel Rubin, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of Music Performance, and Michelle Kisliuk, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology.

Philip Tagg
Friday, April 3rd, 2pm - 3:30pm
Old Cabell Hall, Room B12
Philip Tagg, Professor of Musicology at the University of Montreal, will present a talk entitled "Democratizing Musicology: How to Foster Musical Knowledge without Muso Jargon." For more information about Professor Tagg, click here.

Grace Hale
Friday, April 24th, 3:30pm - 5pm
Old Cabell Hall, room 107
Grace Elizabeth Hale, Associate Professor of History and American Studies in the Corcoran Department of History at UVa, will give a talk entitled "Music in the Documentary Films of the US South, 1963-1984." For more information about Professor Hale, click here

FALL 2009

Eric Lott (ccs colloquium)
Friday, September 11th

Susan Thomas (ccs scgmc)
Friday, September 18th

Books Colloquium (cct)
Friday, September 25th

Spiza Colloquium
Friday, October 16th

Stephen Nachmanovitch (ccs)
Friday, October 23rd

Jeff Stolet (cct)
Friday, November 6th

Michael Bullock (cct)
Monday, November 9th, 8pm at the Bridge, PAI

SPRING 2010

Dana Jessen (Composition and Computer Technologies)
Thursday, January 21st, 8pm at the Bridge, PAI

Steve Waksman (Critical and Comparative Studies)
Friday, January 22nd

James Millward (Critical and Comparative Studies)
Friday, January 29th, 3pm at place TBA

Alessandro Bosetti (Composition and Computer Technologies)
Friday, February 12th

Alessandro Bosetti Performance (Composition and Computer Technologies)
Friday, February 12th, 8pm at the Bridge, PA1

Siva Vaidhyanathan (Critical and Comparative Studies)
Friday, February 19th

Lukas Ligeti (Composition and Computer Technologies)
Friday, March 19th

Lukas Ligeti Performance (Composition and Computer Technologies)
Saturday, March 20th, 8pm at the Bridge, PAI

Amanda Weidman (Critical and Comparative Studies)
Friday, April 2nd

Soundscapes in Jefferson's America (Critical and Comparative Studies)
Friday, April 30th -- Saturday, May 1st

Matmos Residency (Composition and Computer Technologies)
Monday, May 3rd -- Tuesday, May 4th

Digitalis (Composition and Computer Technologies)
Tuesday, May 4th

FALL 2011

Stephen Vitiello (Composition and Computer Technologies)
Friday, September 9th, 3:30 p.m., 107 Old Cabell Hall

Jeff Herriott (Composition and Computer Technologies)
Thursday, September 22, 7:00 p.m. Kaleidoscope Center, Newcomb Hall

Michael Kubovy (Composition and Computer Technologies)
Friday, September 30, 3:30 p.m., 107 Old Cabell Hall

Vanessa Agnew (Critical and Comparative Studies)
Friday, October 14th, 3:30 p.m., 107 Old Cabell Hall

Assaf Shelleg (Critical and Comparative Studies)
Friday, October 21st, 3:30 p.m., 107 Old Cabell Hall

David Suisman (Critical and Comparative Studies)
Friday, November 4th, 3:30 p.m., 107 Old Cabell Hall

Carol Oja (Critical and Comparative Studies)
Friday, December 2nd, 3:30 p.m., 107 Old Cabell Hall

SPRING 2012

Seth Cluett (Composition and Computer Technologies)
Friday, February 3rd, 3:30 p.m., 107 Old Cabell Hall

Kiri Miller (Critical and Comparative Studies)
Friday, February 24th, 3:30 p.m., 107 Old Cabell Hall

Paula Matthusen
Friday, March 23rd, 3:30 p.m., 107 Old Cabell Hall

Soundscapes
Thursday, March 29th, Time TBA, Place TBA
Friday, March 30th, 8:00 p.m., Old Cabell

Roger Reynolds (Composition and Computer Technologies)
Friday, April 6th, 3:30 p.m., 107 Old Cabell