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PROGRAMME FOR THE 2006 CONFERENCE HOW TO REGISTER
School of Oriental and African
Studies [SOAS],
Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG
[Nearest tube: Russell Square]
[Please note that the first part of
our Thursday afternoon session will take place at the Swedenborg Society Hall,
21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1, five minutes from SOAS as you head towards
Holborn]
A guided tour of the wonderful Instrument Gallery of the VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. [Nearest tube: South
Kensington] Free admission. Notes provided. Meet 10.15am at the front entrance.
VENUE: SWEDENBORG SOCIETY HALL, 20-21
Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A [Nearest tube: Holborn]
ED EMERY [Univ. adversitatis]: The Fiddle in Palestine: In
Search of a Music [Abstract]
AGNES KORY [Bιla Bartσk Centre for Musicianship]: Bartok and
Ethnomusicology: fiddle music in Bartok's ethnomusicological and compositional
output [Abstract]
PLEASE NOTE: AT 3.30pm WE MOVE TO THE UPSTAIRS ROOM OF THE PLOUGH
PUB AT 27 MUSEUM STREET WC1 (NEARBY).
ROB FOKKENS [South Africa]: The Post-Colonial Violin [Abstract]
AND
THEN A SMALL MUSICAL SESSION WITH TUNES FROM THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CEILIDH
BAND BOOK TO FINISH OFF THE AFTERNOON [Tune sheets]
World Violin Concert, at the Barbican
Played by Mark O'Connor, Roby Lakatos, Sophie Solomon and
Nikolaj Znaider, with the London Symphony Orchestra, conductor Franηois-Xavier
Roth. [Details]
VENUE: Media Lab, Room G61 Ground floor, SOAS Main Building
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE SHALL START PROMPTLY!
FRANCES WILKINS: The Shetland Fiddle tradition [Abstract]
HARIS SARRIS [University of Athens]: The influence of the tsampouna bagged hornpipe on the lyra and the violin: searching for the "heart" of the music of the Aegean [Abstract]
ETTORE CASTAGNA [Nistanimera, Italy]: The Calabrian Lyra [Abstract]
MEG HAMILTON, HARRIET MACKENZIE and LAURA ANSTEE [Kosmos Trio]: Modes in Klezmer Music and Rebetiko [Abstract]
KYRIAKOS GOUVENTAS [Primavera in Salonicco]: A Hands-on Violin
Workshop: on the playing styles of Greece and Anatolia
[Please note that there is an enrolment fee of £10/£7
concs. for the Kyriakos Gouventas workshop.]
For people not attending the Kyriakos workshop,
during the lunchtime there is a special seminar organised by the Jewish Music
Institute: YAIR DALAL, oud player, fiddle player and
peace activist from Israel, will give a talk entitled: Shalom Saalam:
Judaeo-Arab music and the multicultural music of Israel: music as messenger of
social change. VENUE: Room G50, Ground Floor,
SOAS Main Building. Free admission.
VENUE: Media Lab, Room G61 Ground floor, SOAS Main Building
SAIDA DAUKEYEVA [SOAS] "The
Kazakh qobyz: between tradition and modernity" [Abstract]
THEO LAIS, with ALEXI NONIS: The Cretan Lyra: History
and evolution [Abstract]
BALU RAGURAMAN: The Violin in India [Abstract]
[Regrettably LUIZ FIAMINGHI [Anima
group, Brazil], is not able to attend. His funding was blocked at the last
minute by the onset of Carnival
. He will however submit his paper for
publication: : A Fiddle Forgotten: the revival of the Brazilian rabeca" [Abstract]
VENUE: KHALILI THEATRE, Basement, SOAS Main Building
KYRIAKOS GOUVENTAS [Thessaloniki]: The Greek Violin: An illustrated
talk continuing Kyriakoss programme of London presentations on the Greek and
Anatolian violin-playing tradition. With additional playing by PAVLOS MELAS
and DIMITRIS KOUSTAS.
!!
MOROCCAN DANCE PARTY !!
With additional playing by
MEG HAMILTON, HARRIET MACKENZIE and LAURA ANSTEE [Kosmos Trio]
Licensed bar and snacks available
[Open to all Admission free A bucket collection will be taken.]
VENUE: KHALILI THEATRE, Basement, SOAS Main Building
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE SHALL START PROMPTLY!
Film: Mr Leonidas the Blind Violinist of Oxford Street [Abstract]
PAUL DAVENPORT [South Yorkshire]: The Hornpipes of Joshua Burnett
[Abstract]
SOPHIE SOLOMON: "Poison Sweet Madeira: Beyond the traditional" [Abstract]
LATIF BOLAT [Turkey]: The Violin in the Sufi tradition [Abstract]
CAHIT BAYLAV [Nihavend group, London]: The Violin in Turkey [Abstract]
NICOLAS MAGRIEL [SOAS]: Living with the North Indian sarangi: the
intimate details [Abstract]
PAUL ANDERSON [University of Aberdeen]: The Fiddle Tradition of North-East
Scotland [Abstract]
The Amazing Jig Seminar
Introduced by ED EMERY
VENUE: BRUNEI GALLERY THEATRE, SOAS [Doors open at 7.10]
FIRST HALF 7.30pm
to 8.25pm
VICKY GRAY [fiddle] [Shetlands] with FRANCES WILKINS [concertina]
[SOAS/Aberdeen]
PEET HART [Nottingham]
PETE COOPER [
ETTORE CASTAGNA [
PAUL ANDERSON [
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TWENTY-MINUTE INTERVAL <<
SECOND HALF 8.45pm to 9.45pm
NICOLAS MAGRIEL [sarangi] [SOAS,
London] A raga
ALEXI NONIS [Cretan lyra] with THEO LAIS [laouto] and KALIA BAKLITZANAKI [vocals] [SOAS]
CAHIT BAYLAV [violin] [Nihavend group,
LATIF BOLAT [saz] [Turkey]
HARRIET MACKENZIE, MEG HAMILTON and LAURA ANSTEE [Kosmos Trio,
Admission free. A bucket collection will be taken.
Before the concert and during the interval, DAVID RATTRAY, Instrument Custodian at the Royal
Academy of Music, and author of "Violin
Making in Scotland 1750-1950" (BVMA forthcoming), will
exhibit early examples of Scottish work and will talk about the book and
forthcoming exhibitions
It is possible that there will be a post-Concert party.
On the Sunday all participants are invited to attend THE
LONDON FIDDLE CONVENTION, an all-day fiddle-playing session which will take
place at Cecil Sharp House. [Details]
ALSO: Please note the VIOLIN MAKERS DAY open
exhibition at the Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road on Sunday 26
February.
This conference is an independent initiative
organised with the collaboration of the SOAS Department of Music and the AHRB
Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance.
We acknowledge the generous support of the
Italian Cultural Institute, Olympic Airlines and the Kosmos Trio