Event overview
Artistic research in and through piano playing: personal experiences in cases and context
Overviewing projects that stem from his pianistic practice, Luk Vaes will present diverse and often surprising insights from and into his artistic research. By way of a kind of “self-portrait with piano”, methodological distinctions between musicology, artistic practice, and artistic research are treated, alongside examples of new theoretical, historical and performance practice knowledge. The main case study topics comprise three centuries of extended piano techniques and reconstructions of historically experimental performance practices in works by Mauricio Kagel.
BIO:
Luk Vaes studied piano with Claude Coppens (Belgium), Aloys Kontarsky (Germany) and Yvar Mikhashoff (US), won first prizes in several international competitions, has been concertizing as a soloist at the most renowned festivals for new music as well as with musicians such as Uri Caine and Thomas Quasthoff. His recordings of piano works of Mauricio Kagel won nine international prizes. In 2009 he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the theory, history and performance practice of extended piano techniques. Currently he is fellow in artistic research of the ORCiM group, and coordinates the doctoral program for musicians at the Orpheus Institute and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
FREE EVENT - all welcome, especially composers, performers, and researchers, for this open-ended session allowing for demos and discussion.
Held in the Electronic Music Studios
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 24 Jun 2015 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
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