Location: Christ United Methodist Church

Presenter: Dr. Jill Timmons, NCTM

“Performance Practice – Piano Music from the Twentieth and Twenty-First

Centuries: Exploring Repertoire and Pedagogy”

The modern era brings to pianists a wealth of styles, composers, and cultural traditions. With this abundance, however, comes new considerations around performance practice issues and resources for teaching. In this two-hour workshop, Timmons will explore a number of traditions including: bi-tonality, atonality, twelve-tone serialism, aleatoric music, jazz, improvisation, the aural tradition, selected sources in world music, the American scene, and pop/rock/indie sources. The focus will be on performance practice and teaching materials readily available to the educator looking to expand repertoire resources. “The composer’s function has been purely achieved at the completion of a given work. From then on impurities arise. The music will not fully exist until sounded before some audience.” (Ned Rorem, Setting the Tone)