International Conference — Perspectives on the Reception of the work of Roberto Gerhard

January 10, 2013 - Posted in Research - Permalink

International Conference
Perspectives on the Reception of the work of Roberto Gerhard  

Universidad de Alcalá, Salón de Actos, Rectorado de la Universidad de Alcalá,
6th and 7th June 2013

Conferencia Gerhard Poster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conference Schedule

Thursday, 6th June
09:30 Registration at Patio de Filósofos, Rectorado UAH
10:15 Welcome reception by UAH President Fernando Galván
10:30 Paloma Ortiz-de-Urbina (Universidad de Alcala) & Michael Russ (University of Huddersfield). Roberto Gerhard and Post-Tonal Theory: A Last Letter to Schoenberg
11:00 Diego Alonso: (Universidad de Rioja) Back to tonality?! Gerhard’s compositional strategies during the first stage of his studies with Schoenberg
11:30 Coffee
12:00 Julian White (Independent researcher, Wellington, UK): Gerhard’s ‘Music for Pandora’
12:30 Mark E. Perry (North Georgia University): Roberto Gerhard in United States
13:00 Carlos Duque (University of Huddersfield): The influence of critics in Gerhard´s music
13:30 Lunch (Restaurante Rectorado)
15:00 Visit to Universidad de Alcalá Rectorado and Paraninfo
16:30 Coffee
17:00

Leticia Sánchez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) El compositor Robert Gerhard. Música y literatura. Invited guest: Javier Alfaya
17:30 Carlos Duque, Presentation of documentary: Roberto Gerhard, an explorer in the Avangarde
18:00 Moving to Aula de Música
19:00 Concert: Elena Gragera and Antón Cardó. Auditorio del Aula de Música.

Friday, 7th June
10:00 Jesús Ferrer: (Universidad de Cantabria) “London calling”: una ayuda en el exilio
10:30 Sergio Restrepo: (Universidad Complutense) Aproximación analítica a la Symphony 3 (‘Collages’), de Roberto Gerhard
11:00 José de Eusebio (Conductor, Alicante): Gerhard´s Violin Concerto
11:30 Coffee
12:00 Belén Pérez (Universidad Complutense): Roberto Gerhard en la bibliografía musical de la España franquista (1949-1973)
12:30 Germán Gan-Quesada (Universitat Autònoma, Barcelona):Robert Gerhard through the looking-glass of Barcelona press (1945-1975)
13:00

Gregorio G. Karman: (University of Huddersfield)  Gerhard, Calígula, and the ONCE Group
13:30 Lunch
15:00 Trevor Walshaw (University of Huddersfield): Don Roberto = Don Quixote
15:30 Ana Vega: (Universidad Autónoma, Madrid) El sentimiento español en la obra de Roberto Gerhard
16:00 Coffee
16:30 Free Panel with invited guests and general discussion:
- José Luis García del Busto- Begoña Lolo- Tomás Marco - José Luis Temes

 

 

 

 

  

Portrait Concert Roberto Gerhard

December 18, 2012 - Posted in Uncategorized - Permalink

Radio Broadcast

Catalunya Música, Els Concerts www.catmusica.cat
18 December 2012, 20:00 (GMT+1:00)

 

 

 

PROGRAM

  • Three songs for voice and piano (ca 1930–40)
  • Capriccio (1949), for flute
  • Lament for the death of a bullfighter (1959), for voice and tape (concert version)
  • DNA in reflection (1963), solo tape (film)
  • Claustrophilia (1966), a page for John Cage, for eight harps, four short-wave radios and two monitors (world premiere)

Recording of the concert II International Conference Roberto Gerhard, Barcelona—Valls 2012
Auditori del Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu.
Barcelona, Thursday, 26 April 2012.

Further details: http://ggkarman.de/benvingutmrgerhard/

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Concierto Monográfico Roberto Gerhard – Emisión Radiofónica

Catalunya Música, Els Concerts www.catmusica.cat
18 December 2012, 20:00 (GMT+1:00)

PROGRAM

  • Tres canciones para voz y piano (ca 1930–40)
  • Capriccio (1949), para flauta
  • Lament for the death of a Bullfighter (1959), para voz y cinta electrónica (versión con recitadora en vivo)
  • DNA in reflection (1963), cinta electrónica (película)
  • Claustrophilia (1966), a page for John Cage, para ocho arpas, cuatro radios de onda corta y dos monitores (estreno mundial)

Grabación del concierto de la II Conferencia Internacional Roberto Gerhard, Barcelona—Valls 2012
Auditori del Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu.
Barcelona, Jueves 26 Abril de 2012.

Mas información: http://ggkarman.de/benvingutmrgerhard/

Dr. Monty Adkins is giving a talk about the project in Montreal at CIRRMT in McGill University, Canada.

October 25, 2012 - Posted in Uncategorized - Permalink

 

CIRMMT is the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology. It is a multi-disciplinary research group centred at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University.  It unites researchers and their students from three Quebec institutions – McGill University (Faculties of Music, Science, Engineering, Education and Medicine), l’Université de Montréal (Faculté de musique, Faculté des arts & des sciences), and l’Université de Sherbrooke (Faculté de génie).  The CIRMMT community also includes administrative and technical staff, research associates, visiting scholars, musicians, and industrial associates.  CIRMMT occupies a unique position on the international stage having developed intense research partnerships with other academic and research institutions, as well as diverse industry partners throughout the world.

Dr. Adkins is giving a talk entitled:

The electronic music of Roberto Gerhard

Oct 26, 2012, from 01:00 PM to 02:30 PM.
A-412, New Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke Street West. (Enter via Library on 3rd floor

For more details, please follow the link below:
link: http://www.cirmmt.mcgill.ca/activities/seminars/adkins

The team!!!

January 12, 2012 - Posted in Research - Permalink

We are a team of three people, working currently in the project.

 

 

Dr. Monty Adkins, Composer and Professor of Experimental Electronic Music and Head of Research for the Music Department at the University of Huddersfield.

 

 

 

Dr. Carlos Duque: Composer and Research Fellow


 

 

 

Sr. Gregorio García Karman: Musicologist and Research Associate

 

 

The Research Team acknowledge the kind support and advice of:

—Anna Pensaert, Head of Music, Cambridge University Library.

—Staff of the Manuscripts Reading Room, Cambridge University Library.

—Don Manning: Head of Imaging Services, Cambridge University Library.

—Alan Farrant: Head of Conservation, Cambridge University Library.

—Ted Kendall, Sound Archivist.

—Will Prentice, Sound Archivist, National Sound Archive.

—Dominique Bassal, Mastering engineer.

The two rooms

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We have two rooms for the project, one for digitising the tapes and other for making photos of the reels and backing up metadata.

 

Transfer Room: 4 reel to reel tapes, 3 high end A/D Mytek converters, 4 computers, etc…

 

 

 

 

Imaging Room: Photographic stand, light box, 1 computer, etc….

Setting up the stuff

January 12, 2012 - Posted in Research - Permalink

We are currently setting up 4 reel to reel tapes machines, 3 high end A/D Mytek converters, 5 computers in a network and more than 600 tapes waiting for us….

Come and join us in our blog

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We invite you to join us in our project. Along the next weeks (months in fact) in the Archive Room at Cambridge University Library, we’ll upload the information with our activity. The electronic music of Roberto Gerhard is coming alive. Feel free to cross the door of the project and come along…

 

Starting the Research Project at Cambridge

January 9, 2012 - Posted in Research - Permalink
         

The Electronic Music of Roberto Gerhard

This is the project that the University of Huddersfield will run from Jan 2012 – Dec 2012. The AHRC are funding £146,000 for to produce research outputs that will include a book, a cd of works, journal articles, conference papers and a complete catalogue of the tapes and electronic works. The first 3 months will be in Cambridge working on the collection and the remaining nine months will be working on the catalogue and other research outputs. One of these outputs is on 24-26 of April, with the 2nd International Conference Roberto Gerhard, host in Barcelona and Valls, and organised by the University of Huddersfield.

This research project will examine the electronic music of Roberto Gerhard. Gerhard received a number of prestigious commissions, including the BBC, Koussevitsky Foundation and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. By undertaking the first academic study of Gerhard’s electronic music produced between 1954-66 we will compare Gerhard’s achievements as a composer of both acoustic and electronic music to those of his European counterparts; position his work relative to the other UK-based pioneers of electronic music (Oram, Cary and Derbyshire); and provide an important insight into the unique circumstances associated with the development of electronic music in the UK during the early 1950s, not least the lack of establishment support.

The research team is:

Dr. Monty Adkins: Composer and Professor of Experimental Electronic Music and Head of Research for the Music Department
Dr. Carlos Duque: Composer and Research Fellow
Sr. Gregorio García Karman: Research Associate