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THE SECOND BIENNIAL

 LONDON FIDDLE CONFERENCE at SOAS

School of Oriental and African Studies [SOAS],

Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG [Nearest tube: Russell Square]

 

Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 February 2006

 

[Please note that the first part of our Thursday afternoon session will take place at the Swedenborg Society Hall, 21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1, five minutes from SOAS as you head towards Holborn]

 

THURSDAY MORNING 23 FEBRUARY: 10.30am – 12.30pm

 

A guided tour of the wonderful Instrument Gallery of the VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. [Nearest tube: South Kensington] Free admission. Notes provided. Meet 10.15am at the front entrance.

 

THURSDAY AFTERNOON 23 FEBRUARY 1.30pm – 5.30pm

 

VENUE: SWEDENBORG SOCIETY HALL, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A [Nearest tube: Holborn]

ED EMERY [Univ. adversitatis]: “The Fiddle in Palestine: In Search of a Music” [Abstract]

AGNES KORY [Béla Bartók Centre for Musicianship]: “Bartok and Ethnomusicology: fiddle music in Bartok's ethnomusicological and compositional output” [Abstract]

PETE COOPER [London Fiddle School]: “John Clare, Thomas Hardy and English Fiddle Music” [Abstract]

 

ROB FOKKENS [South Africa]: “The Post-Colonial Violin” [Abstract]

 

AND THEN A SMALL MUSICAL SESSION WITH TUNES FROM THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CEILIDH BAND BOOK TO FINISH OFF THE AFTERNOON [Tune sheets]

 

THURSDAY EVENING 23 FEBRUARY 8.00pm – 10.00pm

 

World Violin Concert, at the Barbican

 

Played by Mark O'Connor, Roby Lakatos, Sophie Solomon and Nikolaj Znaider, with the London Symphony Orchestra, conductor François-Xavier Roth. [Details]

 

FRIDAY MORNING 24 FEBRUARY 10.30am – 1.00pm

 

VENUE: Media Lab, Room G61 Ground floor, SOAS Main Building

FRANCES WILKINS: “The Shetland Fiddle tradition” [Abstract]

HARIS SARRIS [University of Athens]: “The influence of the tsampouna bagged hornpipe on the lyra and the violin: searching for the "heart" of the music of the Aegean” [Abstract]

ETTORE CASTAGNA [Nistanimera, Italy]: “The Calabrian Lyra” [Abstract]

MEG HAMILTON, HARRIET MACKENZIE and LAURA ANSTEE  [Kosmos Trio]: “Modes in Klezmer Music and Rebetiko”

 

FRIDAY LUNCHTIME 24 FEBRUARY 1.00pm to 2.30pm

KYRIAKOS GOUVENTAS [Primavera in Salonicco]: “A Hands-on Violin Workshop: on the playing styles of Greece and Anatolia”

[Please note that there is an enrolment fee of £10/£7 concs. for the Kyriakos Gouventas workshop.]

For people not attending the Kyriakos workshop, during the lunchtime there is a special seminar organised by the Jewish Music Institute: YAIR DALAL, oud player, fiddle player and peace activist from Israel, will give a talk entitled: Shalom Saalam: Judaeo-Arab music and the multicultural music of Israel: music as messenger of social change. VENUE: Room G50, Ground Floor, SOAS Main Building. Free admission.

 

FRIDAY AFTERNOON 24 FEBRUARY 2.30pm to 5.00pm

 

VENUE: Media Lab, Room G61 Ground floor, SOAS Main Building

SAIDA DAUKEYEVA [SOAS] "The Kazakh qobyz: between tradition and modernity" [Abstract]

THEO LAIS, with ALEXI NONIS: “The Cretan Lyra: History and evolution” [Abstract]

BALU RAGURAMAN: “The Violin in India” [Abstract]

Regrettably LUIZ FIAMINGHI [Anima group, Brazil], is not able to attend. His funding was blocked at the last minute by the onset of Carnival…. He will however submit his paper for publication: : “A Fiddle Forgotten: the revival of the Brazilian rabeca" [Abstract]

 

FRIDAY EVENING 24 FEBRUARY 5.30pm to 7.00pm

 

VENUE: KHALILI THEATRE, Basement, SOAS Main Building

 

KYRIAKOS GOUVENTAS [Thessaloniki]: “The Greek Violin”: An illustrated talk continuing Kyriakos’s programme of London presentations on the Greek and Anatolian violin-playing tradition. With additional playing by PAVLOS MELAS and DIMITRIS KOUSTAS.

 

FRIDAY EVENING 24 FEBRUARY 7.30pm to 11.00pm

 

VENUE: SOAS Student Union Bar, Ground Floor SOAS Main Building

 

!! MOROCCAN DANCE PARTY !!

 

            Featuring the HARIR BROTHERS BAND [Morocco]

 

With additional playing by

MEG HAMILTON, HARRIET MACKENZIE and LAURA ANSTEE  [Kosmos Trio]

Licensed bar and snacks available

[Open to all – Admission free – A bucket collection will be taken.]

 

 

SATURDAY MORNING 25 FEBRUARY 10.00am to 1.00pm

 

VENUE: KHALILI THEATRE, Basement, SOAS Main Building

 

Film: “Mr Leonidas the Blind Violinist of Oxford Street” [Abstract]

JIM WOODHOUSE [University of Cambridge]: “Why it is so easy to play the violin badly” [Abstract]

PAUL DAVENPORT [South Yorkshire]: “The Hornpipes of Joshua Burnett” [Abstract]

SOPHIE SOLOMON: "Poison Sweet Madeira: Beyond the traditional" [Abstract]

 

 

SATURDAY AFTERNOON 25 FEBRUARY 2.00pm to 6.00pm

 

VENUE: KHALILI THEATRE, Basement, SOAS Main Building

 

LATIF BOLAT [Turkey]: “The Violin in the Sufi tradition” [Abstract]

CAHIT BAYLAV [Nihavend group, London]: “The Violin in Turkey” [Abstract]

NICOLAS MAGRIEL [SOAS]: “Living with the North Indian sarangi: the intimate details” [Abstract]

 

PAUL ANDERSON [University of Aberdeen]: “The Fiddle Tradition of North-East Scotland” [Abstract]

PETE COOPER [London Fiddle School] with HEATHER TOMALA

 “The Amazing Jig Seminar” Introduced by ED EMERY

 

 

SATURDAY EVENING 25 FEBRUARY 7.30pm to 9.45pm

 

VENUE: BRUNEI GALLERY THEATRE, SOAS  [Doors open at 7.10]

 

 

VICKY GRAY [fiddle] [Shetlands] with FRANCES WILKINS [concertina] [SOAS/Aberdeen]

 

PEET HART [Nottingham]

 

PETE COOPER [London Fiddle School]

 

ETTORE CASTAGNA [Gruppo Nistanimera, Italy]

 

PAUL ANDERSON [Aberdeen]

 

>> TWENTY-MINUTE INTERVAL <<

 

NICOLAS MAGRIEL [sarangi] [SOAS, London] A raga

 

ALEXI NONIS [Cretan lyra] with THEO LAIS [laouto] and KALIA BAKLITZANAKI [vocals] [SOAS]

 

CAHIT BAYLAV [violin] [Nihavend group, London] with 

LATIF BOLAT [saz] [Turkey]

 

HARRIET MACKENZIE, MEG HAMILTON and LAURA ANSTEE [Kosmos Trio, London]

 

Admission free. A bucket collection will be taken.

 

Before the concert and during the interval, DAVID RATTRAY, Instrument Custodian at the Royal Academy of Music, and author of  "Violin Making in Scotland 1750-1950" (BVMA forthcoming), will exhibit early examples of Scottish work and will talk about the book and forthcoming exhibitions

 

It is possible that there will be a post-Concert party.

 

SUNDAY 26 FEBRUARY : ALL DAY

 

VENUE: CECIL SHARP HOUSE

 

On the Sunday all participants are invited to attend THE LONDON FIDDLE CONVENTION, an all-day fiddle-playing session which will take place at Cecil Sharp House. [Details]

 

ALSO: Please note the VIOLIN MAKERS’ DAY – open exhibition at the Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road – on Sunday 26 February.

 

 

 This conference is an independent initiative organised with the collaboration of the SOAS Department of Music and the AHRB Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance.

 

We acknowledge the generous support of the Italian Cultural Institute, Olympic Airlines and the Kosmos Trio

 

 

 

The programme may be subject to change according to circumstances. For all inquiries please contact

 

ed.emery @ thefreeuniversity.net