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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/

 

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