Schedule

Friday, February 27

8:15am — 9:00am Reg­is­tra­tion
9:00am — 9:30am Open­ing remarks
Tim Brady, Pres­i­dent, CNMN
Gaé­tan Bell, Pres­i­dent, FAMEQ
Allan Bell, Pres­i­dent, CMC
Pier­rette Gin­gras, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, SMCQ
9:30am — 10:00am Keynote Address — Music, Soci­ety and Edu­ca­tion — R Mur­ray Schafer
10:00am — 10:25am Break
10:25am — 10:45am Demon­stra­tion #1 — Face Cham­ber Orches­tra — Con­duc­tor, Theodo­ra Stathopou­los (Mon­tréal)
10:45am — 11:15am Case Study #1 — Learn­ing and Par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Con­text of a Con­tem­po­rary Music Ensemble
Nan­cy Evans — Edu­ca­tion Man­ag­er, BCMG (UK)
11:15am — 11:45am Por­trait #1 — New Music in the Cana­di­an Choral Landscape
Patri­cia Abbott — Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Asso­ci­a­tion of Cana­di­an Choral Com­mu­ni­ties (Mon­tréal)
11:45am — 12:00pm Demon­stra­tion #2 — Con­cer­to Del­la Don­na — Direc­tor, Iwan Edwards
12:00pm — 1:30pm Lunch — includ­ed in reg­is­tra­tion fee
1:30pm — 2:30pm Round Table #1 — Cre­ative Music Edu­ca­tion: the Key to the Future
Mod­er­a­tor: Louise Camp­bell, clar­inetist / edu­ca­tor / mem­ber of the CNMN board of directors
Mary Dinn — Pres­i­dent, CMEA (St John’s)
Iwan Edwards — Artis­tic Direc­tor, Con­cer­to Del­la Don­na (Mon­tréal)
Tawnie Olson — Com­po­si­tion Instruc­tor, ACES Edu­ca­tion­al Cen­ter for the Arts (New Haven, USA)
Valerie Peters — Pro­fes­sor of Music Edu­ca­tion, Uni­ver­sité Laval (Que­bec City)
Theodo­ra Stathopou­los — Pres­i­dent, QMEA / Edu­ca­tor, FACE (Mon­tréal)
2:30pm — 2:45pm Por­trait #2 — Audi­ence Devel­op­ment in Orchestras
Kather­ine Car­leton — Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Orches­tras Cana­da (Toron­to)
2:45pm — 3:00pm Por­trait #3 — Com­po­si­tion and Musi­cal Cre­ativ­i­ty in the Que­bec Edu­ca­tion System
Valerie Peters — Pro­fes­sor of Music Edu­ca­tion, Uni­ver­sité Laval (Que­bec City)
3:00pm — 3:30pm Break
3:30pm — 3:45pm Case Study #2 — Hom­mage à Vivier
Pier­rette Gin­gras — Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, SMCQ (Mon­tréal)
3:45pm — 4:00pm Case Study #3 — Music From Scratch
Jer­ry Per­gole­si — Artis­tic Direc­tor, Con­tact Con­tem­po­rary Music (Toron­to)
4:00pm — 4:30pm Case Study #4 — New Music and Community
Gilles Mot­tet — Com­pos­er / Direc­tor, Pourquoi pas… co-inci­dence? (Nice)
4:30pm — 5:30pm Round Table #2 — Audi­ence Devel­op­ment: Cre­ative Music Strategies
Mod­er­a­tor: Patri­cia Abbott — Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Asso­ci­a­tion of Cana­di­an Choral Com­mu­ni­ties (Mon­tréal)
René Bosc — Com­pos­er / Head of Music, Radio-France (Paris)
Coat Cooke — Artis­tic Direc­tor, New Orches­tra Work­shop Soci­ety (Van­cou­ver)
Nan­cy Evans — Edu­ca­tion Man­ag­er, BCMG (UK)
Matt Haimovitz — Cel­list / Edu­ca­tor, McGill Uni­ver­si­ty (Mon­tréal)
Alex Pauk — Com­pos­er / Music Direc­tor and Con­duc­tor, Esprit Orches­tra (Toron­to)

Saturday, February 28

8:30am — 9:00am Reg­is­tra­tion
9:15am — 9:45am Por­trait #4 — Cana­di­an Reper­toire For Young Musicians
Eliz­a­beth Bihl — Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, nation­al office, Cana­di­an Music Cen­tre (Toron­to)
Mireille Gag­né — Direc­tor, CMC Que­bec (Mon­tréal)
9:45am — 10:00am Case Study #5 — Com­pos­ing For Young Musi­cians: Expe­ri­ences with School Bands and Choirs
Allan Bell — Com­pos­er / Pro­fes­sor, Uni­ver­si­ty of Calgary
10:00am — 10:15am Case Study #6 — Com­pos­ing With Young Musicians
Tawnie Olson — Com­po­si­tion Instruc­tor, ACES Edu­ca­tion­al Cen­ter for the Arts (New Haven, USA)
10:15am — 10:30am Demon­stra­tion #3 — Ear Clean­ing and Impro­vi­sa­tion Ped­a­gogy in the High School Classroom
Dou­glas Friesen — Music Instruc­tor, Rosedale Heights School of the Arts (Toron­to)
10:30am — 11:00am Break
11:15am — 12:00pm Round Table #3 — Cre­ative Music, Edu­ca­tion and Soci­ety: a Crit­i­cal Connection
Mod­er­a­tor: Nicole Doucet — Direc­tor of Arts Dis­ci­plines, Cana­da Coun­cil for the Arts (Ottawa)
Claude de Grand­pré — Artis­tic Direc­tor, Théâtre Hec­tor-Char­land (L’Assomption)
Raf­fi Armen­ian — Direc­tor, Con­ser­va­toire de musique de Montréal
Emmanuel Bigand — Pro­fes­sor Cog­ni­tive Psy­chol­o­gy, Insti­tut Uni­ver­si­taire de France / Direc­tor LEAD (Dijon)
R Mur­ray Schafer — Com­pos­er & Music Edu­ca­tor (Indi­an River)
12:00pm — 12:15pm Case Study #7 — The Impor­tance of Music Edu­ca­tion In Our Classroom
Ann La Plante — Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, Alliance For Cana­di­an New Music Projects
12:15pm — 1:30pm Lunch — includ­ed in reg­is­tra­tion fee
1:30pm — 2:00pm Por­trait #5 — New Music and Pre­sen­ters Networks
Bar­bara Scales — Own­er & Direc­tor, Lat­i­tude 45 Arts Pro­mo­tion Inc (Mon­tréal)
Angela Drainville-Ashick — Direc­tor, CAPACOA / Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, Clas­sic The­atre (Cobalt)
2:00pm — 2:30pm Demon­stra­tion #4 — Cre­ative Music Technology
Blue Yeti — Mag­nolya Roy & Jean-Michel Cou­turi­er (France)
2:30pm — 2:45pm Demon­stra­tion #5 — Musicolateur
Félix Boisvert — Com­pos­er (Mon­tréal)
2:45pm — 3:15pm Break
3:15pm — 4:15pm Ple­nary Ses­sion — Forum 2009 Sum­ma­ry, Forum 2010 in Vancouver
4:15pm — 4:45pm CNMN Gen­er­al Assembly