ARTICULATE OPEN CLASSROOMS
Artist-researchers at the Conservatoire as well as external researchers present their research to students, by elaborating on the scope of their project, introducing their methods, research processes, or (preliminary) conclusions, performing an artistic result or by supervising a workshop.
OPEN CLASSROOMS MUSIC
Play of Metaphor / 14:00 – 15:30
PRESENTATION and MASTERCLASS-WORKSHOP
by EMIL GRYESTEN
Room 57, Conservatoire
‘Play of Metaphor’ offers an innovative approach to classical piano and chamber music, based on GREYSTEN’s docARTES research ‘Metaphor and the Erotics of Interpretation’. The project examines how metaphor and analogy shape 19th-century performance, guiding articulation, phrasing, and emotional expression.
The session invites students to treat musical performance as a space for metaphorical play, where sound becomes fluid, embodied, and shaped by creative analogies. Participants will explore new interpretive tools to expand their artistic expression beyond conventional analysis.
Build your own Robert Schumann / 14:00 – 16:00
LECTURE-PERFORMANCE, OPEN REHEARSAL
by ALASTAIR MATTHEWS
Room 139, Conservatoire
In this workshop, the audience will help develop experimental performances of Robert Schumann’s ‘Du Ring an meinem Finger’ from ‘Frauenliebe und Leben’ op.42. We grapple together with the potentially discriminatory implications of the song, closely analyzing the interaction between music and text. We then examine how different performance approaches might lead to new critical perspectives on the song’s meaning, taking us beyond thinking about performance as a faithful interpretation of the composer’s intentions, to explore the performer’s power to transform the music’s meaning.
The workshop forms part of ALASTAIR MATTHEWS PhD research into how musical analysis might be used as a tool in experimental performances of 19th century repertoire.