Musicking conference returns virtually in April

After a hiatus in 2020 due to COVID-19 the School of Music and Dance’s Musicking Conference returns virtually April 12–15, 2021. In addition, the conference will host the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music’s (SSCM) annual conference April 15–18. 

The Musicking Conference seeks to cultivate student and community interest in early music and historical performance practice studies by combining scholarship, education, and performance. This year’s conference will include a presentation on a recent critical edition of the works of Antonio Vandini, a lecture concert on early music of Central and South Americas, and a keynote address on “The State of Early Music in 2021” with Musicking Director and cellist, Marc Vanscheeuwijck. 

In addition to Vanscheeuwijck, Elinor Frey, a leading Canadian-American cellist and researcher, will be a featured artist. She will give a masterclass and a live-streamed concert “Imperfect Circle” with her Baroque quartet Pallade Musica, which includes Tanya LaPerrière, Baroque violin, Esteban La Rotta, theorbo, and Mélisande McNabney, harpsichord. “Imperfect Circle” looks to 17th-century Italian Baroque music to explore ideas relating to the circle, a symbol of idealized perfection, while simultaneously confronting the imperfections of our natural world.  

The SSCM conference will include panel presentations by a wide array of scholars from around the world including a free joint session with Musicking titled “Diversifying Early Music Pedagogy” on Monday, April 12. Registration is required for the conference ($50, $40 for students) sscm-sscm.org/meetings-conferences/2021-annual-meeting.

The Musicking Conference, cosponsored by the OHC’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, is free and open to the public. For more information and viewing information go to: blogs.uoregon.edu/musicking/2021-conference-schedule.