Music Research Seminar Series

The University of Waikato Music Programme presents the 2013 Music Research Seminar Series. This year’s speakers are a mix of performers, composers and historians, and will talk about a range of subjects, including traditional Maori music, amateur New Zealand pianists, and multimedia composition. Seminars are held fortnightly through B Semester in the Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts and other university locations.

Thursday 25 July 12-1pm Tito Pūoro: extending the Kīngitanga music tradition Speaker: Te Mana Rollo A presentation of research integrating waiata, taonga pūro and electroacoustic music into a hybrid musical work. Te Whare Tapere Iti, Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts, Free entry

Thursday 8 August 12-1pm Concerts and socials for the promotion of good fellowship: Amateur New Zealand Pianists Perform Speaker: Kirstine Moffat The words ‘piano performance’ typically conjure up the image of a famed virtuoso playing to a packed concert hall and receiving tumultuous applause. In colonial New Zealand there was certainly an association between piano professional and instrument, with performers such as Mrs John Bell, Miss Redmayne, and Ralph Hood enchanting audiences in Auckland, Dunedin and Wellington respectively. However, for most colonial New Zealanders opportunities to hear such performers were rare. The piano performers who entertained audiences were more usually amateur pianists whose defining characteristics were versatility and adaptability. They performed solo works, accompanied singers, violinists and flautists, tapped out the rhythms for dances, sat at keyboards in parlours, halls, wool sheds and pubs, and alternated between the compositions of classical greats such as Mozart and Beethoven, popular favourites by Balfe and Gilbert and Sullivan, and nostalgic songs such as ‘Killarney’ and ‘My Love is But a Lassie’. Room IG.09, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Free entry Thursday 5 September 12-1pm High Art and High Jinks: serious music making and extreme fun at a summer school of music Speaker: Phillippa Ulenberg Q: What do Douglas Lilburn, Owen Jensen, John M Thomson, Jenny McLeod, Lili Kraus, Edwin Carr, Ronald Dellow, David Farquhar, Ronald Tremain, John Rimmer, Frederick Page, John Hopkins, An- thony Ritchie, Donald Munro, Jack Body, Maurice Clare, Judith Clark, Gary Brain, Vincent Aspey, Gillian Whitehead, Ian Campbell, David Griffiths, Katherine Austin, Robin Maconie, Peter Godfrey, Ian Whalley, Frances Wilson, Karen Grylls, Peter Walls, Ross Harris, Ray de Lisle, Michael Houston, Don McGlashan, John Wells, Deirdre Irons, Glenese Blake, Anthony Jennings, David Guerin, Margaret Nielson, Susan Frykberg, John Elmsly … all have in common? A: The Cambridge Music School, 1946-1986. A post-World War Two adult-education initiative, the Cambridge Music School ran for two weeks each summer for 40 years, making a major contribu- tion to music performance and composition in New Zealand. It was a life-changing, direction set- ting experience for many of the students, who say they would never have been composers, singers or performers if it had not been for the Cambridge Music School. Te Whare Tapere Iti, Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts Free entry

Wednesday 18 September 11am-12pm Multimedia Collaboration as Art Practice Speaker: Teresa Connors My research is driven by the possibility to create multimedia works based on the interconnect- edness of systems in which mind, technology, and nature are experienced as an interconnected part of one larger, dynamic system. Compositional systems and generative agents are designed to reflect these interrelationships enabling an artistic conversation that goes beyond any singular knowledge base with the desire to creatively know, influence, be affected, and/or co-exist with another individual, nature, and the human condition. Room IG.09, Faculty of Arts of Social Sciences Free entry

Thursday 3 October 12-1pm Composing for Musical Theatre Speaker: Robbie Ellis Robbie Ellis is an arts freelancer in Auckland - composer, musical director, improviser, broadcaster, voiceover artist - and was the 2012 University of Otago Mozart Fellow. He will talk about recent musical theatre pieces of his: working with playwrights, moulding text to suit, and embracing the Delete key. (Embracing figuratively, not literally.) Te Whare Tapere Iti, Gallagher Academy of Performing Arts Free entry

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