Women in the Creative Arts conference Australian National University, 10-12 August 2017

~SCHEDULE~ as at 2 August 2017 http://music.anu.edu.au/news/women-creative-arts

THURSDAY 10 AUGUST 2017

9.00 – 10.30am Conference Registration | Athenaeum, School of Music (ground level) Foster Larry Sitsky Recital Room Lecture Theatre 1 Lecture Theater 3 Room SESSION 1A SESSION 1B SESSION 1C Muses Trio Performance Practice Dance and the body Chair - Prof. Cat Hope Chair – Dr. Julie Rickwood 10.30am Jacinta Dennett Jane Ingall (Somebody’s Aunt) (University of ) Somebody's Aunt - dancing the personal Illuminating Significative Utterance in and the political Performance: Helen Gifford’s Fable (1967) for Harp 11.00am Emily Bennett Carolyn McKenzie-Craig (University of Melbourne) (National Art School) Muses Trio The machine and the message; the role Performative modes of research and rehearsal of electronic sound processing in Jenny practice in the work of feminist (closed), no Hval’s vocal performance art practice collective Bruce and Barry composers 11.30am Janet McKay Emma Townsend (University of Queensland) (University of Melbourne) Dreams, Layers, Obsessions: A flutist’s Confirming, contesting and unsettling role in collaboration with four female compositional gender stereotypes in the composers ballet Sea Legend by Esther Rofe

12.00 – 1.00pm LUNCH | Athenaeum, School of Music (ground level)

(ARC Cinema, National Film and Foster Larry Sitsky Recital Room Lecture Theatre 1 Sound Archive, Canberra) 2C only Room SESSION 2A SESSION 2B SESSION 2C Muses Trio Large Ensembles Historical Musicology Film and Technology Chair - Prof. Liza Lim Chair – Dr. Robyn Holmes Chair – Dr. Martyn Jolly (ANU) 1.00pm Louise Denson, Leah Cotterell Anna McMichael Becky Nunes (Whitecliffe College of Muses Trio and (Queensland Conservatorium) ( Conservatorium) Arts & Design) and Ann Shelton (Whiti Hilary Kleinig Singing at the ‘Prim’ Celebrating the improvising woman - o Rehua School of Art Massey University) (1.00pm) musical improvisational development in Collaborative processes and key thematics the semi-private sphere by women as in the film "This Air is a Material - the part of the 18th and early 19th classical work of Ann Shelton.” music learning tradition 1.30pm Joanna Drimatis Mark Shepheard Nunes/Shelton – Film Screening 50” Muses Trio and (MLC School, Sydney / Sydney (University of Melbourne) Nicole Conservatorium) Portraying women as professional Murphy A workshop on orchestral repertoire by musicians in early modern Italy: the case (1.45pm) women composers for school and of Barbara Strozzi community orchestras 2.00pm Glenda Cloughley, Johanna McBride Ellan Lincoln-Hyde (A Chorus of Women, Canberra) (University of Melbourne) Making Music in A Chorus of Women Marjorie Lawrence in Paris: A Case Study of Migration and Music in the Early Twentieth Century

Foster Larry Sitsky Recital Room Lecture Theatre 1 Lecture Theater 3 Room 2.30 – 3.00pm AFTERNOON TEA | Athenaeum, School of Music (ground level) SESSION 3A SESSION 3B SESSION 3C Lecture recitals Poetry, Song and Words Music and Culture Dr. Kim Cunio (ANU) Chair - Dr. Lucy Neave (ANU) Chair - Prof. Liza Lim 3.00pm Lisa Illean Hilary Kleinig Rachel C. Walker Muses Trio and (Royal College of Music, ) (Zephyr String Quartet) (Tsinghua University, Beijing) Christine On Cranes: a joint presentation-recital, U N i T E - a Creative Workshop, An American in Beijing: Creative Practice McCombe a new exploratory work for solo viola, presentation and trial of a smartphone as a Composer in Contemporary China (3.00pm) Phoebe Green (Vla) choir app in development 3.30pm Lisa Cheney Kate Middleton Brenda Gifford Muses Trio and (University of Melbourne) (University of Wollongong) (Australian National University) Joyce Wai- Creating something personal: A My Emily, My Emily: Anne Carson, Gambambaraa South Coast Songline chung Tang reflective analysis on the composition Lucie Brock-Broido and Poetic Project (3.45pm) of a new work for solo cello and Apprenticeship electroacoustic track 4.00pm setup Maren Bagge (Research Centre for Pegah Varamini Music and Gender at Hanover (Queensland Conservatorium) University of Music, Drama and Media ) Iranian Female Musicians and Music “My first serious composition.” Career Pedagogues in History strategies of women composers in late 19th and early 20th century Britain (Songs and Ballads) 4.30 – 6.00pm KEYNOTE SPEECH Muses Trio Prof. Cat Hope, (4.30pm) Stepping Aside: Gender equality and privilege in Australian music culture

CONFERENCE DINNER (registration essential) $60 per person Copper Chimney Restaurant (Indian Restaurant) 6.30pm 24 West Row, Canberra ACT 2601 *vegetarian and vegan options provided http://music.anu.edu.au/news/women-creative-arts

FRIDAY 11 AUGUST 2017 Foster Larry Sitsky Recital Room Lecture Theatre 1 Lecture Theater 3 Room SESSION 4A SESSION 4B SESSION 4C Panels Women Composers Women in Film and TV Chairs -Lisa Cheney and Naomi Johnson Chair - Dr. Maria Grenfell Chair – Dr. Bonnie McConnell (ANU) 9.00am Lisa Cheney Talisha Goh Felicity Wilcox (University of Melbourne) (Edith Cowan University) (University of Technology, Sydney) Approaches to curation towards a goal of A Woman’s Job: Feminism and Gender Obstacles and goals toward gender gender parity in the creative arts. in Kate Moore’s ‘Violins and Skeletons’ equity in the Australian screen music PANEL: Peggy Polias, Lucy Rash, Megan (2010) industry Steller, Therese Milanovic, Lisa Cheney, Linda Kouvaras 9.30am Naomi Johnson (9.45am) Sabrina Clarke Jessica Wells (9.45am, panel) (ABC Classic FM) (University of Delaware) (Sydney Conservatorium) Women on Air: Creating Opportunities to Synesthetic Associations and Gendered Working as an orchestrator in the Broadcast Works by Women Composers Nature Imagery: Female Agency in the male-dominated world of screen PANEL: Naomi Johnson, Matthew Dewey, Piano Music of Amy Beach composition 10.00am Liza Lim, Katherine Kemp, Simon Rogers Joel Crotty (Monash University) Catherine Strong Timbre as the focus of application to (RMIT University) delineate form in Livia Teodorescu- Barriers and pathways for women film Ciocănea’s Endeavour Bells for solo and television composers in Australia piano (2008)

10.30 – 11.00am MORNING TEA | Athenaeum, School of Music (ground level)

SESSION 5A SESSION 5B SESSION 5C Foster Creative Careers Careers in Composition Visual Art Room Chair – A/Prof. Sam Bennett Chair - Dr. Jenny Wilson Chair - Dr. Martyn Jolly (ANU) 11.00am Talisha Goh Linda Kouvaras Karike Ashworth Muses Trio (Edith Cowan University) (University of Melbourne) (Queensland University of and An international perspective on managing Women’s Work in Contemporary Technology) composers career as a woman composer. Australian Composition: A Musicologist/ Strategic Confession in the (closed Dawn Bennett, Sophie Hennekam, Sally Lecturer/ Composer’s Twenty-Five- Contemporary Visual Art Practices of rehearsal) Macarthur, Talisha Goh, Cat Hope Year-Plus Project Women Foster Larry Sitsky Recital Room Lecture Theatre 1 Lecture Theater 3 Room 11.30am Liz Giuffre - PANEL Scott Brook Susan Best 11.00am – (University of Technology Sydney) (University of Canberra) (Griffith University) 1.00pm Developing the next generation of Women in Labour market returns to women artists Women's Art: is it still a useful Creative Arts in Australia: a preliminary quantitative category? analysis 12.00pm PANEL: Sarah Attfield, Liz Giuffre, Becky Christina Green Kathryn Jeanes Bennison (Western Sydney University) (University of Newcastle) (panel closes 12.15pm) The Lesbian Composer through a Reparation: Biloela 1871-1887 (artist’s Deleuzian Lens: Paper/Presentation and books) Performance 12.30 – 1.30pm LUNCH | Athenaeum, School of Music (ground level) INDUSTRY SPEAKERS (no parallel sessions) Chair - Dr. Natalie Williams (ANU) 1.30pm Katherine Kemp - Musica Viva The Hildegard Project: Designing, implementing and sustaining a program in support of women in composition Rosalind Appleby - Author 2.00pm “Women of Note” (Freemantle Press, 2012) Dr. Jenny Wilson - The Australian Council of 2.30pm Deans and Directors of Creative Arts

3.00 – 3.30pm AFTERNOON TEA | Athenaeum, School of Music (ground level) KEYNOTE SPEECH DRESS REHEARSAL (closed) Prof. Liza Lim (Sydney University) 3.30 – 5.00pm Larry Sitsky Recital Room Luck, Grief, Hospitality – re-routing Muses Trio power relationships in music GENERAL MEETING (all registered delegates invited) 5.10 – 5.30pm The Future of Women in the Creative Arts Group discussion on future events supporting women in the creative arts 5.45 – 6.45pm Dinner, informal booking: Roti House (delegates pay own way), Ernst & Young Building, 4/121 Marcus Clarke St. Canberra ACT 7.00 – 8.30pm CONFERENCE RECITAL, The Muses Trio (piano trio) ($20 general admission, free for delegates) Larry Sitsky Recital Room SATURDAY 12 AUGUST 2017 Larry Sitsky Lecture Theatre 1 Lecture Theater 2 Lecture Theater 3 Recital Room SESSION 7A SESSION 7B SESSION 7C Popular Music Opera Music Theatre Chair - A/Prof. Sam Bennett Chair - A/Prof. Linda Kouvaras Chair – Prof. Cat Hope 10.30am Walter Everett Jeanell Carrigan Judith Clingan, Jessica Dixon (University of Michigan) (Sydney Conservatorium) (Independent scholars) Command and Surrender in Patti Australian Women Composers of Harmonia Mundi, a new music theatre work Smith's "Land" Opera 11.00am Josh Denaro Jaslyn Robertson Emma Jayakumar (Monash University) (Monash University) (Edith Cowan University) The Representation of Feminist Gag on this: feminist satire in Creating the antagonist: From the Queen of Identity in Australian Popular Music Jennifer Walshe’s xxx Live Nude the Night to the Birdwoman (children’s Girls!!! opera) 11.30am Megan Berry Susan Frykberg, Judith Lisa MacKinney (Waikato Institute of Technology) Dodsworth (University of Melbourne) St. Vincent: Postmodern Guitar Hero (Independent scholars) The Book of Daughters project: inclusivity Drone Opera Recast as guiding principle

12.00 – 1.00pm LUNCH | Athenaeum, School of Music (ground level)

SESSION 8A SESSION 8B SESSION 8C Composer Representation Chair - Rosalind Appleby 1.00pm setup Louise Godwin (RMIT University) Wander lines as conceptual framework for journeys in music 1.30pm setup Helen Rusak (Edith Cowan University) Breaking the glass harmonica: Women in musical leadership 2.00pm setup Vanessa Tomlinson (Queensland Conservatorium) Embracing the Voice of Female Composers: from quantitative studies to action

Larry Sitsky Recital Room Lecture Theatre 1 Lecture Theatre 2 Lecture Theatre 3

SESSION 9 – RECITALS 2.00pm RECITAL - Ros Dunlop (University of Newcastle) PLACE: a presentation of multimedia pieces for bass clarinet by Australian women composers, written in the last twelve months Ros Dunlop (bass cl./presenter)

New works by: Margery Smith Hollis Taylor Felicity Wilcox 2.30pm strike and setup 2.45pm RECITAL - Joanna Drimatis (MLC School, Sydney / Sydney Conservatorium)

Repertoire for Violin and Viola from Australia and New Zealand Cathy Irons (NZ), Vln Joanna Drimatis (Aust) Vln/Vla

New works by: Cat Hope Helen Bowater Chloe Moon Vivienne Sands 3.15pm strike and setup 3.30pm RECITAL - Phoebe Green (Queensland Conservatorium)

The Kōan: a recital Phoebe Green, Vla

Works by: Helen Gifford Cat Hope Lisa Illean 4.15pm CONFERENCE CLOSE