2018 CLAVICHORD

 

Clavichord & Organ: Companions for Centuries

 

Given that the new Utopa Baroque Organ was inaugurated in March 2018, the International Orgelpark Symposium 2018 focused on the ‘instrumental relationship’ between the clavichord and baroque organs. Since organists developed and trained their musical skills on (pedal) clavichords for centuries, the symposium explored how building and playing clavichords might inspire developing new perspectives on dynamics in organ music.

 

 

THURSDAY JUNE 7

Welcome

 

Lecture ~ recital / Christophe Deslignes

Early music and dynamics

 

Lecture ~ recital / Terence Charlston

Mersenne's clavichord: organ music in clavichord performance in 16th-/17th-century France

 

Keynote 1 / Joel Speerstra

Playing around with Bach’s Violin Works at the Clavichord: exploring a tradition of keyboard improvisation in performance

 

Concert / Ulrika Davidsson & Joel Speerstra

 

 

FRIDAY 8 JUNE

Keynote 2 / Bernhard Klapprott

Aspects of vocality in playing the clavichord (18th century sources)

 

Session 1: Organist & clavichord: historical aspects 

Gregory Crowell

A Stranger in a Foreign Land: The Clavichord in the New World

 

Lothar Bemmann

Gottfried Silbermann and his missing clavichords

 

Olivier Feraud 

Backgrounds to Arnaut de Zwolle’s dulce melos

 

Session 2: Organist & clavichord: Johann Sebastian Bach

Ulrika Davidsson

Dynamic keyboard playing - Reflections on a research project at the Royal Danish Academy of Music

 

Menno van Delft 

Bach and the clavichord

 

Session 3: Building clavichords / introductions to exposed instruments

Andreas Hermert

The pedal clavichord according to Claas Douwes (1699)

 

Peter Bavington

Reconstructing Mersenne's Clavichord

 

Jos van der Giessen & Gregor Bergmann

A New Chamber Organ

 

Sander Ruys

 

Concert / Sigrun Stephan

 

 

SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018

Session 4: The clavichord in the 20th and 21st century 

Jan Raas

The clavichord - captive of the past or venturing in the present?

 

Jean Kleeb

Clavichord without frontiers

 

Franz Danksagmüller

Newest clavichord musics

 

Session 5: Rediscovering dynamics / lecture ~ recital

Dóra Pétery

Understanding the clavichord

 

Session 6: Student presentations

Dalyn Cook

Wonder Woman: Lotta van Buren and the American Early Music Revival

 

Franjo Bilic

Clavichord as a pedagogical starting point for other keyboard instruments

 

Final Concert / Menno van Delft & Franz Danksagmüller