Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Program

Registration

Welcome / introduction:
Lewis Owens & Alexander Ivashkin

Key-note adress:
"Why is Shostakovich's Music so hard to Understand?"
David Fanning (University of Manchester)

Tea / Coffee

"Shostakovich - First Russian minimalist"
Alexander Ivashkin (Goldsmith's College)

"My Shostakovich"
Dmitri Smirnov (Goldsmith's College)

Talk by artists Annabel Carey & David Birch

Lunch

Lunch-time recital:
Shostakovich: Piano Sonata No. 2 (opus 61)
Alissa Firsova

Shostakovich: Viola Sonata (opus 147)
Alissa Firsova, piano & Daniel Palmizio, viola

"Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues opus 87; Subtexts in Context"
Tanya Ursova (Goldsmith's College)

"Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something... Red? Found Music in Shostakovich's Film Scores"
John Riley (BUFVC)

Shostakovich and the DSCH monogram: a theoretical exposition
Kristian Hibberd (Goldsmith's College)

Tea / Coffee

Prize Draw

Recital:
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor (opus 57)

Seven Romances on Poems by Alexander Blok (opus 127)
Ensemble MP3

Final Questions

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