Yearning to Connect: A Short Introduction to Music Curatorship
Lectures and workshops for students in the field of music curatorship
Heloisa Amaral, Royal Conservatoire The Hague (Netherlands)
Wednesday, April 13 2022, 14:30–16:00h, Teacher Education Faculty, room 21
MA students
Thursday, April 14 2022, 9:00–10:30 часова, Faculty of Music, Great Hall
BA students
The teaching visit is organized in the framework of the Erasmus+ DEMUSIS project.
About the topic:
A concert is never just a neutral container for music. On the contrary, the context of a musical production, forms of audience involvement and display, programme texts, etc. are all elements that affect performance and listening in remarkable ways. Aware of this, many musicians today think of these elements as part of their artistic practice, exploring them to engage new audiences and propose new musical experiences. In this talk, I will discuss compelling examples, recent and historical, and invite participants to share their own personal experience. The talk is inspired by a text with the same title published in 2020.
Heloisa Amaral (PT/BRA/NO) is a pianist, artist-researcher and curator. Musical partnerships include Duo Hellqvist/Amaral and Ensemble neoN as well as collaborations with composers such as Joanna Bailie, Simon Steen-Andersen, Johannes Kreidler, Phil Niblock, Helmut Lachenmann, Natasha Barrett, Jan St. Werner, Marina Rosenfeld and Catherine Lamb. Former curator at Ny Musikk and programmer of Ultima Academy at the Oslo Ultima Festival until 2015, Heloisa has been an advisor of the research project DEFRAGMENTATION – Curating contemporary music, in addition to teaching workshops on curatorship and feedback techniques for research supervisors and musicians at the Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt, the Advanced Master of Contemporary Music in Gent, the Orpheus Institute and the Ensemble Modern Akademie.
Currently, Heloisa lectures in artistic research and curatorial practices in music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and pursues an artistic-research PhD at the University of Leiden (NL).
