International Chopin Symposium and Festival

January 3–7, 2010

Sunday, Jan. 3, 15:00

Analyzing Chopin: The Shape of Performance

John Rink Professor, Musical Performance Studies Cambridge University

Reading Chopin: The Sound of NotationSunday, Jan. 3, 10:00

Musical Narratives in Chopin’s Ballades (workshop)

Monday, Jan. 4, 11:30

Time and Timing in Chopin’s Scherzos (workshop)Monday, Jan. 4, 15:00

Carl Schachter Professor Emeritus, Music Theory, Queens College and CUNY

Chopin’s Mazurka, Op.59, No. 2: A Tribute to Mendelssohn? Sunday, Jan. 3, 11:00

Assaf ZoharPianist, and Dean of the Performance

Faculty, JAMD

Sunday-Wednesday, Jan. 3-6, 16:30

Mostly Chopin (master classes)

William Rothstein Professor, Music TheoryQueens College and CUNY

Problems of Phrasing in ChopinSunday, Jan. 4, 10:00

Chopin and OperaWednesday, Jan. 6, 11:30

Sunday, Jan. 4, 10:00

Wednesday, Jan. 6, 11:30

Halina Goldberg Professor, MusicologyIndiana University

Concerts are Never Real Music: Performance Venues and Programming in Chopin’s EraTuesday, Jan. 5, 10:00

Eytan Agmon Professor, Music TheoryBar-Ilan University

Chopin’s Mazurka, Op. 24, No. 2, and Fétis’s ‘Tonal Perfection’ Tuesday, Jan. 5, 11:30

Alexander Tamir Professor, JAMD Artistic Director of the Eden-Tamir Music Center

Style and Expression in the Chopin Mazurkas (workshop)

Tuesday, Jan. 5, 15:30

Roger Kamien Professor Emeritus, Music Theory, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Chopin’s Prelude in B-Flat Major, Op. 28, No. 21: Form and Large-Scale Voice LeadingWednesday, Jan. 6, 10:00

Andrzej Jasiński Pianists and Piano Professor Music Academy, Katowice

Problems of Interpretation in Chopin Mazurkas (lecture-demonstration)

Wednesday, Jan. 6, 15:00

Master ClassThursday, Jan. 7, 10:00 – 13:00, 15:00 – 18:00