2011 IMPROVISATION [2]

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I M P R O V I S A T I O N

 

 

 

From 2008 till 2011 Orgelpark Research took the art of improvisation as its main theme. The results are documented in Orgelpark Research Report #3, available for free elsewhere on this site. The project's final activity was the 2013 International Orgelpark Symposium.

 

A major event during the symposium was the oratio, with which Hans Fidom accepted his appointment to professor of Organ Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The text (as well as the music) of his oratio is available elsewhere in this website as well, in the form of Orgelpark Research Report #2.

 

 

 

Tuesday 24/5

Music

Vrije Universiteit (VU), lobby

Joris Verdin and Klaas Hoek, harmoniums

 

Oratio

Vrije Universiteit (VU), Aula: Music as Installation Art

Hans Fidom / Live music by University-organist Henk Verhoef

 

Concert

Orgelpark

Peter Planyavsky, Tomas Adam Nowak, Jos vd Kooy

 

 

Wednesday 25/5

Welcome

Hans Fidom

 

Keynote

European Improvisation History: Anton Heiller

Peter Planyavsky

 

Session 1 / Rethinking Improvisation I / Moderator Hans Fidom

Bruce Ellis Benson: What is Improvisation?

Marcel Cobussen: Reflections on Improvisation

 

Session 2 / Improvisation in Historical Styles / Moderator: Paul Peeters

Music: Improvisation by Bill Porter

Bill Porter: Improvising in historical Styles/An Introduction

Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra: Improvisation in Bach’s Style

Frederic Blanc: Improvisation in Cochereau’s Style

Rudolf Lutz: Improvisation in 19th century German styles

Sietze de Vries: Organs, not styles: another approach of Improvisation

 

Session 3A / Educating improvisation / Moderator: Jan Raas

Peter Planyavsky

Tomas Adam Nowak

 

 

Thursday 26/5

Session 4 / Rethinking Impro Part II: Witnessing Music / Moderator: Hans Fidom

Gary Verkade: How I listen to improvisations

Mary Oliver: analyzing improvisations

Eva-Maria Houben: What music does to us

Karin Johansson: Talking about music

 

Session 5 / Impro Today II: New Organ MUSIC Concepts / Moderator: Peter Peters

Hampus Lindwall/Gerald Woehl: the Studium Acusticum Organ at Piteå

Matthias Wagner: Kassel

Ansgar Wallenhorst/Benedikt Aufterbeck: Ratingen

Dominik Susteck/Peter Bares: Sankt Peter/Köln

Vincent Thévenaz: romantic giant organs as contemporary instruments

 

Session 3B / Educating improvisation / Moderator: Jan Raas

Jos van der Kooy

Bine-Katrine Bryndorf

 

 

Friday 27/5

Session 6 / Moderator: Ansgar Wallenhorst

Columba McCann: Dupré

 

Session 7 / National Organ Improvisation Competition (two rounds)

Jury: Jan Raas, Wim de Ruiter, Ansgar Wallenhorst

Round 1

Round 2

 

Concert

Jacob Lekkerkerker & Friends + Winner Competition