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ABOUT
Opening the Doors to the Art and Science of Music
The international scientific symposium will celebrate the relocation of the Academy of Music from the Stiška Manor to the renovated premises of the Kazina Palace, Ljubljana, Slovenia. We will link the artistic research in various musical disciplines with scientific research in the field of music education and related scientific disciplines. The two-day symposium will present papers that address current topics in the musical arts and music education which relate to the music and artistic research as a whole and explore their interdisciplinary connections,
as well as to music and general education, lifelong learning, various forms of non-formal learning and musical engagement. The symposium title is also linked to the preparations for the implementation of the new PhD programme in Arts, which is in the process of being accredited.
Keynote
Speakers
Barbara Lüneburg
Anton Bruckner Private University (AT)
Embodying Expression, Gender, Charisma – Breaking Boundaries of Classical Instrumental Practices
The body is the medium through which instrumentalists realise sound, musical ideas, and emotion. Their body, simultaneously, is the emotion, and the conveyer of sound and musical idea.
Performers use – consciously or unconsciously – gestures and facial expression as well as the staging of the body as a means of expression, communication, and interaction with the audience. Through their corporeality they allow the audience insight into their individual but also staged and culturally shaped personalities. As an onlooker “[w]e perceive in the other person’s bodily postures, movements, facial expressions, directed gaze, gestures, and actions what they intend and what they feel, and we respond in a tightly coupled way […]” (Gallagher and Zahavi 2012, 208)
In her artistic research project Embodying Expression, Gender, Charisma – Breaking Boundaries of Classical Instrumental Practices, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF: AR 749-G) and based at Anton Bruckner Private University, Barbara Lüneburg investigates bodily and artistic expressions in instrumental playing as an essential part of their musical and cultural expression and of the values we share with our audiences. In a second step she and her team ask how they can bend boundaries of classical instrumental performance practice through their (de)-construction in newly created artworks and through specific dissemination formats and how this will affect the charismatic relation to the audience.
In her keynote Lüneburg will introduce us to the key research objectives of her three and a half years research project, elaborate on the interdisciplinary research design and methodology with a special focus on methods of artistic research the team uses. Finally she will report from her first research findings.
Barbara Lüneburg, Professor of Artistic Research at Anton Bruckner Private University, has appeared as a soloist and composer across Europe, both Americas, Asia and New Zealand. Countless compositions have been written for and in collaboration with her. Critics describe her playing as 'breathtaking', 'a musical cosmos', 'passionate' 'bold', 'expressive and captivating'.
In her artistic research she investigates creativity, collaboration, charisma, concert aura, participatory art, embodiment, and the effect of game elements in audiovisual works. From 2014 to 2018 she led the research project "TransCoding - From Highbrow Art to Participatory Culture", in which she involved an online community in the creation of a multimedia work via social media. In 2022 she was awarded the three-and-a-half year research project "Embodying Expression, Gender, Charisma – Breaking Boundaries of Classical Instrumental Performance Practices” by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, project AR 749-G).
Lüneburg is the Director of the Doctoral Programs at Anton Bruckner Private University, Austria.
Zvezdan
Pirtošek
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine (SI)
* The keynote is dedicated to pianist, prof. Hinko Haas (1956 - 2020).
How the Brain shapes Music, how Music shapes the Brain
At first glance, the gap between art and (neuro)science seems endless and unbridgeable. Art whispers from depths of intuition, subjectivity, imagination, myth; science convinces with the laws of logic, objectivity, actions, reason.
And yet it is precisely in the field of music creation that art and science have walked many paths together. With their own passion, musicians have always intuitively discovered the secrets of acoustics, the visual and mental processes of the brain, and the processes of creativity and emotion. And scientists, fascinated by the unusual, overwhelming power of music, wondered about the origins of experiencing and creating music, about its evolutionary purpose, about the mechanisms that lead to music being both comfort and medicine. Do we have a special 'center for beauty' in the brain? Can we gain a sense of music in a brief moment or lose it suddenly? Can music hurt us? Why does a neuroscientist too experience music as perhaps the most perfect of all the arts? Why does music remain even when we lose all other memories? In the lecture, we will touch on all these questions and also present how in some disorders (epilepsy, Alzheimer's dementia, Parkinson's disease, speech disorders after a stroke...) music can be used not only as a consolation, but also as a medicine; and how brain disease may have shaped the creation of some great musical creations and influenced the creativity of musicians (Ravel, Mozart...), in the strength and weakness of their creative process.
Professor Zvezdan Pirtošek is a physician, neurologist, head of the Chair of Neurology at the Faculty of Medicine and long-time head of the Department of Nervous System Diseases. He is a co-founder of the Central European Study of Cognitive Science, president of the Slovenian Brain Council, co-founder of the Association of Parkinsonism Patients and chairman of the scientific committee of the Association of Dementia Patients. The main research areas include neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease) and cognitive neuroscience.
For his work in the field of dementia, the President of the Republic of Slovenia awarded him the Order of Merit.
Schedule
Thursday, 24th November '22
Julij Betetto Hall
9:00
Greeting Music: ANSAMBEL SAKSOFONOV 96, mentor: prof. MIHA ROGINA
Welcome speeches:
GREGOR MAJDIČ, Rector of the University of Ljubljana
MATJAŽ DREVENŠEK, Vice Rector for the Arts, University of Ljubljana
IRIS IVANIŠ, EUTOPIA presentation
MARKO VATOVEC, Dean of the Academy of Music
KAROLINA ŠANTL ZUPAN, Vice Dean for Science and Arts Affairs
BRANKA ROTAR PANCE, Head of the Organising Committee and International Scientific Committee of the Symposium
Friday, 25th November '22
Julij Betetto Hall
9:00
Greeting Music: LUCIJA LORENZUTTI – piano, mentor: prof. TOMAŽ PETRAČ
Keynote speaker: ZVEZDAN PIRTOŠEK, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine (SL)
How the Brain shapes Music, how Music shapes the Brain
10:00
Parallel sessions in Dr. Primož Kuret Hall and Trio Lorenz Hall
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11:30
9:30
Keynote speaker: BARBARA LÜNEBURG, Anton Bruckner Private University (AT)
Embodying Expression, Gender, Charisma – Breaking Boundaries of Classical Instrumental Practices
10:30
Coffee break
12:00
Parallel sessions in Dr. Primož Kuret Hall and Trio Lorenz Hall
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Coffee break
13:30
Lunch break
11:00
Parallel sessions in Dr. Primož Kuret Hall and Trio Lorenz Hall
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15:00
Parallel sessions in Dr. Primož Kuret Hall and Trio Lorenz Hall
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14:00
Lunch break
16:30
Coffee break
15:30
Parallel sessions in Dr. Primož Kuret Hall and Trio Lorenz Hall
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COCKTAILS & PARTY!
17:00
Parallel sessions in Dr. Primož Kuret Hall and Trio Lorenz Hall
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17:30
Roundtable Panel: Researching Musical Arts
Moderator: GAL FAGANEL
19:30
Concert - At the intersection of art and science, Julij Betetto Hall
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Committees
Organising Committee
Chair
BRANKA ROTAR PANCE, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
Members
TINA BOHAK ADAM, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
GAL FAGANEL, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
KATARINA HABE, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
ANDREJ MISSON, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
MIHA NAHTIGAL, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
MARINA NOVAK, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Muzička akademija (HR)
ILONKA PUCIHAR, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
KAROLINA ŠANTL ZUPAN, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
KATARINA ZADNIK, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
International Scientific Committee
Chair
BRANKA ROTAR PANCE, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
Members
MICHELE BIASUTTI, Università degli Studi di Padova (IT)
TINA BOHAK ADAM, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
GAL FAGANEL, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
RŪTA GIRDZIJAUSKIENĖ, Art Faculty of Klaipeda University (LT)
KATARINA HABE, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
JELENA MARTINOVIĆ BOGOJEVIĆ, Univerzitet Crne Gore, Muzička akademija (ME)
EGON MIHAJLOVIĆ, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
ANDREJ MISSON, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
MARINA NOVAK, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Muzička akademija (HR)
ARABELLA PARE, Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (DE)
MARIO PERESTEGI, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
MILENA PETROVIĆ, Fakultet muzičke umetnosti u Beogradu (SRB)
ILONKA PUCIHAR, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
HELMUT SCHAUMBERGER, Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik, Klagenfurt (AT)
VESNA SVALINA, Sveučilište Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku, Fakultet za odgojne i obrazovne znanosti (HR)
KAROLINA ŠANTL ZUPAN, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
SABINA VIDULIN, Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Muzička akademija u Puli (HR)
KATARINA ZADNIK, Univerza v Ljubljani, Akademija za glasbo (SI)
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Venue
LOCATION:
University of Ljubljana, Academy of Music is located at Kongresni trg in the very historical center of Ljubljana.
FULL ADDRESS:
Kongresni trg 1, 1000 Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
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