ACTOR Symposium Montreal #2, on orchestration and musical analysis, with Fabien Lévy
DESCRIPTION
Composer and musicologist Fabien Lévy [https://www.fabienlevy.net/] will join McGill researchers in music theory, composition, and music perception in a symposium co-sponsored by ACTOR (Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration) and CIRMMT Research Axes 3 and 4. Levy, author of Le compositeur, son oreille et ses machines à écrire: Déconstruire les grammatologies du musical pour mieux les composer, will present a morning lecture on “functional orchestration” followed in the afternoon by shorter presentations on aspects of analytical and orchestrational theory applied to the first movement of Franz Schubert’s Eighth Symphony and a hands-on analytical workshop. This workshop is co-sponsored by ACTOR, CIRMMT Research Axes 3 and 4, and the Schulich School of Music’s Composition and Music Technology Areas.
Links:
https://www.cirmmt.org/activities/special/ACTOR_symposium_mar2020
https://www.facebook.com/events/1371683476351569/
Schedule of Composer and ACTOR Member Fabien Lévy’s Visit to Montreal – February 2020
SCHEDULE
Tuesday 25 February - ACTOR Symposium on orchestration and musical analysis with Fabien Lévy
McGill Residence, 475 Sherbrooke St. W., Conference room on 2nd floor
10:30-12:30, Fabien Lévy, Functional Orchestration
14:00-14:30, William Caplin, Musical form in Schubert’s Eighth Symphony, first movement
14:30-15:00, Stephen McAdams, Orchestral Grouping Effects (Perception)
15:00-15:45, Denys Bouliane, Orchestration Techniques
16:00-18:00, Workshop on orchestration analysis,
16:00-16:50 - three WorkGroups with Lévy, Bouliane and McAdams will use and discuss the methods provided by Orchestral Functions, Techniques and Perception Effects, respectively) in analyzing the Exposition of Schubert’s Eight Symphony, first movement.
17:05-18:00 - the three WorkGroups will join in a plenary session to compare and discuss their approaches.
18:00, Reception
Wednesday 26 February
Wirth Music Building, Schulich School of Music of McGill University, A-832
16:00-18:00 – Conference on the works of Fabien Lévy
Thursday 27 February
Wirth Music Building, Schulich School of Music of McGill University, A-512
9:00-13:00 – Masterclass with McGill composition students
ABOUT FABIEN LÉVY
Fabien Lévy studied composition with Gérard Grisey at the Paris Conservatoire. He was resident at the Villa Medici in Rome and in Berlin with the DAAD Artist Program. His works, published by Billaudot and Ricordi Germany, have been performed by the Ensemble Recherche, the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, the Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt, the Argento Ensemble, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Berlin Radio Symphony orchestra (among others). He won the 2004 Förderpreis from the Ernst von Siemens Förderpreis Foundation for music. He taught at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns-Eisler in Berlin (Germany), was Assistant Professor of Composition at Columbia University in New York (2006–12) and is currently professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig in Germany. He lives in Berlin.
