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Lecture by Vasiliki Kourti-Papamoustou

Unlocking creativity: Composing music with children and teenagers

This lecture is aimed at composers and music educators and attempts to explore cases where children are directly involved in the compositional process. How is it when you compose with children/teenagers? Are there different methods for it? How can the different steps of this process (conscious listening, exploration of sounds, improvisation, musical notation) be structured and how could musical ideas of children with little or no musical education be guided and brought to light?

The composer and music educator Vasiliki Kourti Papamoustou will present excerpts from her works and talk about her experiences on composing with children. Participants will have the opportunity to exchange ideas and then develop, notate and perform their own compositions.
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Thursday November 2nd 17:00 | Thermi Campus | Classroom 10

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Lecture by Jānis Petraškevičs

CML presents the Latvian composer Jānis Petraškevičs in a lecture on his recent works and contemporary Baltic music. Jānis Petraškevičs is a professor at Jazeps Vitols Academy of Riga.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 15:00 | Music Department, Foyer

Jānis Petraškevičs (1978) studied composition with Pēteris Plakidis in Rīga, Sven-David Sandström in Stockholm, and Ole Lützow-Holm in Gothenburg. In 2014 he defended his doctoral thesis in musicology at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. Among his honors are First Prize in the competition of the Association of Baltic Academies of Music in Hamburg (2003, for et la nuit illumina la nuit, Op. 2), the Carl Larsson Scholarship (2006, for a residency in Fontainebleau), the Fellowship of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbertide (2013–14), and the Latvian Grand Music Award for New composition of the year (2014, for Darkroom – Ein Fantasiestück für Ensemble). He has received commissions from the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Nieuw Ensemble, Ensemble Modern, Wigmore Hall, and SWR; in October of 2018 his “Dead Wind” was premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage by SWR Synfonieorchester.

Nicolas Tzortzis – Ways of doing things

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Ways of doing things – Lecture by composer Nicolas Tzortzis

“Robert Fripp, guitarist and basic member of the progressive rock band King Crismon, once said that his band was not that much a band than “a way of doing things”, meaning that, even if the musicians have changed over the years, what makes King Crimson what it is, is a specific approach to music making, that has remained unchanged throughout the decades.
In my lecture, I will talk about some of my latest works, who almost all of them combine music with other media (theatre, electronics, video), and about the different approach that every work needs, with all the constraints and the liberties that come with it. These works are very different from each other, with diverse starting points and considerations, that demand each time another approach and that the composer reinvents himself, broadens his aesthetics and tries to find the necessary tools that will better serve the realisation of his idea.”
―N. Tzortzis

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