The academy 2012 will challenge the concept of ‘interpretation’ in the field of music performance, and investigate musical ‘experimentation’ as an alternative path. Such a challenge involves the concept of ‘work’ and has implications in the fields of ‘notation’, ‘hermeneutics’, editorial concepts (such as the ‘Urtext’), as well as with the broader relationship with the past.

Some of the questions that will be addressed during the Academy include the following:

• What is ‘interpretation’ in music performance (also ‘staging’) today?
• What might be ‘experimentation’ in music performance?
• How can a performer experiment through practice?
• Do aspects of experimental practices underlie the conventional interpretation paradigm?
• How can ‘experimentation’ concretely challenge ‘interpretation’?
• What can music performance add to an understanding of the role of experimentation in knowledge societies?

Invited guest faculty for this Academy:

• Hermann Danuser (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
• Frederic Rzewski (Brussels, Belgium)
• Thomas Christensen (University of Chicago, U.S.A.)
• Anders Hultqvist (Göteborg, Sweden)

Download the Schedule Orpheus Academy 2012.

Download the Academy flyer.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

The Orpheus Academy takes place at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent from Monday March 26, 2012 (10.00 a.m.) until Wednesday March 28, 2012 (1.00 p.m.)