The Conference will be hosted in the prestigious venue of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, on the San Giorgio Maggiore island, in Venice.

Saturday, 9th November

1  p.m. - Registration

2 p.m. - Opening Address

Massimiliano Guido & Peter Schubert, McGill University

Gianmario Borio, Istituto per la Musica della Fondazione Giorgio Cini

2.45 p.m.  - Keynote Lecture Theory in the Midst of Notes

Thomas Christensen,

Avalon Foundation Professor of Music and the Humanities

Associate Dean of the College and Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division

University of Chicago

The Improvisatory Moment

4 p.m. - First Session The Art of Memory,  Chair Gianmario Borio

Stefano Lorenzetti,

Conservatorio di Musica di Vicenza

Musical Inventio, Loci Communes, and the Art of Memory

Discussant: Roberto Perata, Università Statale di Milano

Massimiliano Guido,

McGill University

Climbing the Stairs of the Memory Palace: Gestures at the Keyboard for a Flexible Mind

Discussant: Arnaldo Morelli, Università de L’Aquila

6.30 p.m. Lecture-recital

Bor Zuljan,

Haute École de Musique de Genève

‘Ricercar una Fantasia:’ the Techniques for Improvising a Fantasia on Lute in the Sixteenth Century

Sunday, 10th November

9.30 a.m. - Poster Session Niels Berensten, Jacques Meegens, Peter van Tour

10 a.m. - Second Session Instrumental Counterpoint and Improvisation,  Chair Arnaldo Morelli

Edoardo Bellotti,

Eastman School of Music, Rochester University

Composing at the Keyboard: Banchieri and Spiridion, Two Complimentary Methods

Discussant:  Felix Marangoni, Università Ca’ Foscari

William Porter,

Eastman School of Music, Rochester University

Improvising a North German Preambulum

Discussant: Jacques Meegens, Centre Études Supérieures Musique Danse

Poitou-Charentes

Giorgio Sanguinetti,

Università di Roma Due - Tor Vergata

Cheating the Work-of-Art Paradigm: Partimento Implication for Classical Performers

Discussant: Marco Pollaci, Nottingham University

3 p.m. - Third Session - Vocal Counterpoint and Improvisation, Chair Peter Schubert

Philippe Canguilhelm,

University of Toulouse

Towards a Stylistic History of ‘Cantare Super Librum’

Discussant: Peter van Tour, Uppsala University

Giuseppe Fiorentino,

University of Cantabria

Singing by Reason and Singin by Use: Extempore  Polyphonies in Renaissance Spain

Discussant: Niels Berentsen, Royal Conservatoire of The Hague

6 p.m Concert Keyboard & Vocal Improvised Music - Sala degli Arazzi

Instruments

Edoardo Bellotti & William Porter, harpsichords

Presentation of the Fondazione Accademia Internazionale di Smarano, Giacomo Corrà

Voices

Singers from VivaVoce - Peter Schubert, conductor

7.30 P.M. Gala Cocktail offered by the

Fondazione Accademia Internazionale di Smarano

9 P.M. Conference Dinner

Monday 11th November

9 a.m. Fourth Session Pedagogy,  Chair Thomas Christensen

Jean-Yves Haymoz,

Haute École de Musique de Genève

Cantare Super Librum: Strategies and Techniques

Lecture and workshop with professional singers

Peter Schubert,

McGill University

Teaching Theory Trhough Vocal Improvisation

Michael Callahan,

Michigan State University

Play it: Some Challenges of, and Solutions to, Teaching and Learning Undergarduate Music Theory at the Keyboard

Panel Discussion on Improvisation as a Teaching and Analytical Tool