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October 27, 2017 (day 1)
9:30-10:00 Registration, Tanna Lobby
*A bonus event at the symposium will be an open masterclass (co-presented by the festival « Les ateliers contemporains ») with conductor Guillaume Bourgogne of Seven Images for Twenty-two Players (1971), featuring the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble, 9:00-10:00am Pollack Hall
10:00 Opening of Cherney Score Exhibition in the Marvin Duchow Library
Welcome message from Aiyun Huang
Introduction on the exhibition - remarks by Cynthia Leive
11:00-12:30 Conference Session #1, A832 - Session Chair: Taylor Brook
1100-11:30 David Adamcyk: “Mind and God in Cherney’s Illuminations”
11:30-12:00 Brian Cherney: “How I Might Have Become a Composer”
12:00-12:30 David Jaeger: “Commissioning Brian Cherney's String Trio”
12:30: 1:30 Lunch (Faculty Lounge, A833)
1:30-3:00 Conference Session #2, A832 - Session Chair: Chris Paul Harman
1:30-2:00 Zosha Di Castri: “Music as Refuge: Stillness in Brian Cherney’s Mature Piano Works"
2:00-2:30 Taylor Brook: “Meaning and Expression in the Chamber Music of Brian Cherney”
2:30-3:00 John Beckwith: “Brian Cherney as composer and collaborator”
3:00-3:30 Coffee break, A833
3:30-4:30 Conference Session #3, A832 - Session Chair: Zosha Di Castri
3:30-4:00 Robin Elliott: “Brian Cherney as Scholar and Creative Artist”
4:00-4:30 Matthew Ricketts: “Text—Textures—Intertexts: Brian Cherney’s Transfiguration”
5:00-6:00 Concert #1, Tanna Hall (curated through Call-for-proposals)
Gan Eden (1983) for violin and piano — Wapiti Ensemble
Doppelgänger (1991) for two flutes — Claire Marchand & Marilène Provencher-Leduc, flutes
Shekhinah (1988) for viola solo — Marina Thibeault, viola
6:00-7:00 Cocktail hour, Tanna Lobby
October 28, 2017 (day 2)
10:30-12:30 Conference #4, A832 - Session Chair: Matthew Ricketts
10:30-11:00 Arlan N. Schultz: “Brian Cherney: Transcendent Pedagogy and the Spiritualization of Technique”
11:00-11:30 Christoph Neidhofer: “Ontological and Psychological Time in Brian Cherney’s String Quartet No. 4”
11:30-12:00 Anton Vishio: “‘I dig through to you’: Brian Cherney, Paul Celan, and a Music of Witness”
12:00-12:30 Brian Cherney in Conversation with Chris Paul Harman
12:30-2:00 Lunch, A833
2:00-4:00 Concert #2, Tanna Hall
Quartet No. 3 (1985) — Molinari Quartet
Like Ghosts from an Enchanter Fleeing (1993) — Chloé Dominguez, cello; Jean Marchand, piano
[Break]
Twenty-Two Arguments for the Suspension of Disbelief (2010) — Nu:BC
String Trio (1976) — Joshua Peters (violin), Marina Thibeault (viola), Carmen Bruno (cello)
7:30pm Concert #3, Pollack Hall
Seven Images for Twenty-two Players (1971) — McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble (director: Guillaume Bourgogne)
Tombeau (1996) — Julia Den Boer, piano
Intermission
In Gottes Gärten schweigen die Engel (2006; revised 2017) — McGill Percussion Ensemble with Paul Vaillancourt and Jessica Gauthier (soprano)
Playing for Time (1981) — Kyoko Hashimoto (piano), Aiyun Huang (percussion), Jacqueline Leclair (oboe)
9:30-10:30pm Closing Reception, Clara Hall