Un-Master Class: William Westney
The American pianist William Westney will hold an Un-Master Class at Department of musicology Friday 19 February. The Un-Master Class is a popular and unique performance workshop, developed by William Westney, and designed as a lively, engaging alternative to the traditional master-class. Starting with interactive group warm-ups, an environment is created that builds trust and breaks down barriers to artistic expression. The class then focuses on prepared performances by selected participants by a) helping performers communicate authentically with the audience, b) reconnecting participants with their exuberant, natural physical intuition about music, c) assisting performers to reach new, significant levels of artistry.
The Un-Master Class is part of a research project within the Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics, and will be recorded for use in analysis of music-related body movement.
Program
I Introduction
II Warm-Up
III Performances
- Sebastian Wemmerløv (piano): Ensom Vandrer from lyric pieces, Grieg
- Julie Kleive (voice): Femkantgeneralen, PUST
- Andreas Frøystad (piano): Preludium op. 27 nr. 2, Rachmaninov
- Jon Ludvig Hansen (piano): Ballade in g minor, E. Grieg
- Erik Nerheim (saxophone): Sonate in a-minor for solo fllute, C. P. E. Bach
About the Un-Master Class
A refreshing complement to traditional Master-Classes, the Un-Master Class® is an experimental performance workshop focusing on natural musical communication, authenticity, and empowerment. The lively format is based on various group interactions. The increasingly popular Un-Master Class has been held at many music centers in the U.S. and abroad including the Aspen School, Tanglewood Festival, Manhattan School of Music, Holland Music Sessions, Peabody Conservatory, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, University for Music and the Performing Arts (Vienna) and Juilliard School, and music teachers’ meetings from coast to coast. William Westney's innovative Un-Master Class work was the subject of a featured cover story in the arts section of the New York Times.
About William Westney
William Westney is the Browning Artist-in-Residence and Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Music at Texas Tech University. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University School of Music and was the top piano prizewinner in the Geneva International Competition. Educational honors include TTU’s highest distinction, the Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Teaching Award (2008), the Yale School of Music’s “Certificate of Merit,” and a Fulbright “Senior Specialist” grant to Asia (2006). For the 2009-10 academic year he is dividing his time between the U.S. and the University of Southern Denmark (Odense), where he has been named Hans Christian Andersen Guest Professor, in an interdisciplinary research role involving philosophy and pedagogy. His innovative “Un-Master Class” workshop, which was profiled in a New York Times article, has been held in Vienna, Beijing, London, Seoul, Melbourne, Toronto, and many other prominent music centers. Dr. Westney’s book The Perfect Wrong Note (2003), received enthusiastic reviews internationally and is now in its second printing, having sold over 10,000 copies worldwide.
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