Graduate Student Conference

University of Calgary, Department of Music

2008 Session

Confounding Expectation: Music and the Unexpected Outcome

The conference's inaugural session took place Friday and Saturday April 25th and 26th, 2008 at the renowned Rozsa Centre. A huge thank you to all those who participated! More information about the upcoming publication and next year's session is forthcoming. Stay tuned!

Organizing Committee

  • Colleen Whidden
  • Aaron Dalton

Reading Committee

Faculty Oversight

  • Prof. Malcolm Edwards
  • Dr. Friedemann Sallis

Members

  • Aaron Dalton
  • Guidonna Duggan
  • Tanya Hage
  • Simon Tillier
  • Colleen Whidden

Presenters

  • Colin Redekop (University of Calgary)
    Opening Organ Recital
  • Jeremy Brown (University of Calgary)
    Keynote Address
  • Parmela Attariwala (University of Toronto)
    "Who's making Canadian music, eh? Publicly funded music in contemporary Canada."
  • Kristina Baron-Woods (University of Western Ontario)
    "Coloratura and Character in the Figaro Substitute Arias"
  • Ian Burleigh (University of Calgary)
    "Strange Attractors in Jazz Improvisation (recital)"
  • Jennifer Butler (University of British Columbia)
    "Designing Pedagogical Etudes for Interactive Electronic Instruments"
  • Travis Ellrott (State University of New York, Stony Brook)
    "Appreciating Acousmatic Music"
  • Ralph Maier (University of Calgary)
    "Assessing Textual Value: Vihuela Intabulations and the Music of Josquin"
  • Jamie Meyers (University of Calgary)
    "Thomas Weelkes: Musical Interpretation of Death"
  • Matthew Provost (McGill)
    "Johann Sebastian Bach: Excercises in Episode under the Tutelage of Johann Adam Reincken (recital)"
  • David Sears (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)
    "Processing Surprise in Tonal Melodies"
  • Susan Toman (McGill)
    "Transitions at Versailles, 1720-1740: The Harpsichord Works of Bernard de Bury (recital)"
  • Colleen Whidden (University of Calgary)
    "The Adult Non-Singer: Hearing Their Voice through Narrative"
  • Hsieh Yi-chun (National Taiwan University)
    "Greater Mobility in the Jiang Wenye's symphony, The Music of the Confucian Temple, versus Traditional Confucius Temple Music"