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PROGRAMME FOR THE 2009 CONFERENCE –
HOW TO REGISTER –
THE LONDON FIDDLE CONFERENCE at
SOAS
[THIS IS THE PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME, AND MAY BE SUBJECT
TO CHANGE]
>> FRIDAY AFTERNOON:
Visit to the Instrument Gallery
at the Horniman Museum, South London.
A guided tour led by the museum’s
director MARGARET BIRLEY. Time: 2.00pm. Meet at the café.
A list of the museum’s holdings
of bowed string instrument’s can be viewed here
>> FRIDAY EVENING: Venue: Room G2, SOAS main building.
A CONCERT of folk fiddle traditions.
Followed by
CEILIDH DANCE AND JAM SESSION in the JCR. The Jam Session will feature
musicians from the Cambridge University Ceilidh Band, the SOAS
Ceilidh Band, and Ilana Kravitz’s klezmer group.
>> SATURDAY MORNING: Khalili Lecture Theatre, basement
of SOAS main building.
ED EMERY [SOAS] Introduction: Notes
on the One-String Fiddle
CHARLOTTE GREENHOW [University of
Cambridge]: The Hardanger Fiddle Tradition
SOHAIB
AL-RAJAB: The joza (spike fiddle) in the Iraqi tradition
JIM BARRETT [University of Glamorgan]: Old, New, Borrowed, Blue: A jazz
double bass using revived Baroque instrument-making technologies
Lunch
>> SATURDAY
AFTERNOON: Khalili
Lecture Theatre, basement of SOAS main building.
OZAN TOPRAK: The music of
the Turkish Yayli Tambur [accompanied by Cahit Baylav]
TADEUSZ RYTWINSKI: The Rebec in
the folk fiddle tradition of the Carpathian mountains
DIVAKAR
SUBRAMANIAN [University of Glamorgan]: The role of the violin in the South
Indian Tamizh Film music industry
Tea
ELAINE BRADTKE: Sam Bennett
(1865-1951): Documentary Evidence of an English Fiddle Player
JOHN OFFORD: Hornpipes in the
English tradition [with Pete Cooper of the London Fiddle School]
>> SUNDAY MORNING: Khalili Lecture Theatre, basement
of SOAS main building.
KATE ARNOLD [SOAS] and SHIRLEY SMART: Making the
transition from Western to Arabic violin-playing
PAUL ANDERSON: Understanding the fiddle style of the
Scottish North-East
BRENDAN MULKERE [University of
Limerick]: Ornamentation in Traditional Irish Music
In the meantime you may also be interested in the
Saturday evening concert of the London Fiddle Convention (a separate but
related and excellent event) which takes place at Cecil Sharp House, London.
Website: http://www.londonfiddleconvention.co.uk/