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William Westney:
H.C. Andersen Visiting Professorial Fellow 2009-10
Videos as broadcast on Danish Television (ALT-Aabenraa Lokal TV): HERE.
Summary report (pdf) of tenure as HCA-Academy Visiting Professorial Fellow: HERE.
Page on the HCA Visiting Professorial Fellow website: HERE.
HERE for postings (click the leftward-pointing arrow next to "Today") on "Events/Calendar". See also"Archive for 'Updates' " HERE.
William Westney,Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano and Browning Artist-in-Residence
School of Music, Texas Tech University, was appointed H.C. Andersen Visiting Professorial Fellow at The University of Southern Denmark during the 2009-2010 academic year, affiliated with The Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The story profiling Prof. Westney on this website at the time of his appointment appears below.
Prof. Westney continues to be actively associated with the The Aesthetics of Music and Sound as well as with NNIMIPA: Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics. His ongoing research activities in affiliation with these networksare chronicled throughout www.soundmusicresearch.org and www.nnimipa.org.
For documentary coverage of Prof. Westney's activities as H.C. Andersen Visiting Professorial Fellow, please see the links at the top of this page.
William Westney named HCA-Academy Guest Professor 2009-10
The Hans Christian Andersen (HCA) Academy was founded in 2001 in order to contribute to the cultivation of ideas and values which may be shared universitywide and across disciplinary borders at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). One of the programs sponsored by the HCA Academy for the promotion of this goal is the annual award of a HCA-Academy Guest Researcher Residency to a scholar from abroad who can exert an invigorating influence within a disciplinary setting at SDU, while also taking part in SDU-sponsored events whose scope is universitywide as well as open to the general public. HCA Guest Researchers are appointed by the Vice-Chancellor (Rektor) upon the recommendation of the HCA Academy for a residency of six months’ duration.
The Aesthetics of Music and Sound is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof. William Westney as HCA Academy Guest Professor for a period of six months distributed throughout the 2009-2010 academic year. The appointment of William Westney as HCA Academy Guest Professor brings an outstanding and internationally acclaimed teacher, researcher and concert pianist with marked interdisciplinary interests to SDU. Westney will be affiliated with the Institute of Philosophy, Education and the Study of Religions (IFPR) at the University of Southern Denmark and is a member of the research program The Aesthetics of Music and Sound. As both Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Piano and Browning Artist-in-Residence at Texas Tech University, Westney is uniquely qualified to work within and survey the functioning of both academic and performance milieux.
Westney regards academic research and instrumental performance preparation as two closely related species of information-seeking and integration. He has perfected an engaging presentational style in which conceptual research is combined with concert-style instrumental performance. The topics on which he currently is working range from the pedagogical (elucidating concepts in education and philosophy through the intense and very "real" prism of concert performance) to the philosophical (delving deeper in the musical implications of the work of pragmatist philosophers such as James, Dewey and Peirce) and the aesthetic/literary (employing the methods of discourse narrative in order to support interpretive choices faced by the practicing musician).
Westney's work is directly applicable to research being done by PhD students as well as faculty at IFPR. It is also relevant with regard to ideas currently in circulation at IFPR as to how the Institute can contribute more substantively to the support and development of the teaching of music and art in primary, secondary and upper-secondary school.
Westney's international reputation as an educator stems largely from two innovative and revitalizing contributions to the field of music performance and its related psychological/pedagogical issues: (1) His book The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self (Amadeus Press, 2003), is now in its second printing, having sold well over 10,000 copies worldwide, and (2) His trailblazing performance workshop (for all performers, regardless of instrument or musical genre), called "The Un-Master Class," which has been held in conferences, universities and conservatories from Beijing and Seoul to London, Vienna, Toronto, Melbourne, Mexico City and most major cities in the U.S. Interestingly, even though he is a prize-winning concert artist (Geneva International Competition, among many others), it is as an educational specialist that he was awarded a U.S. Fulbright "Senior Specialist" grant to teach, lecture, and perform at seven universities in Korea in 2006. He has also been entrusted with a pivotal educational role in the U.S. as chair of the Editorial Committee (since 2005) of American Music Teacher, the largest-circulation musical pedagogy journal in the world. In 2008, Texas Tech selected him for its highest teaching honor, the Chancellor's Council Distinguished Teaching Award.
Another area Westney has focused on throughout his career is the issue of wellness and injury avoidance among musicians. Sharing his empirical findings regarding both the healthy mechanics of playing and the psycho-physical issues of practicing, he has presented at conferences devoted to performing arts medicine.
William Westney already proved before starting his tenure as H.C. Andersen Guest Professor that he could relate well to audiences within the region of Southern Denmark. During November 2008 he toured three of the cities in Denmark where SDU has campi - Sønderborg, Esbjerg and Odense - under the auspices of the IFPR-SDU research program The Aesthetics of Music and Sound. In Sønderborg, Westney's concert lecture at the piano in Alsion on November 19, 2008 attracted an audience of 250-300 and he held a memorable "Un-Master Class" for music school students in the region. In Esbjerg, Westney gave a lecture at the Network for Cross-Disciplinary Studies of Music and Meaning (NTSMB) conference Music In and Out of theBody (see www.ntsmb.dk) under IFPR-aegis at The Academy of Music and Music Communication (VMK) as well as a concert lecture at the piano and an "Un-Masterclass", and he concluded his 2008-tour here at SDU in Odense on November 26, 2008 with a concert lecture at the piano (for program, see HERE).
For more information about William Westney, please see www.depts.ttu.edu/music/SOM/WilliamWestney.asp and www.williamwestney.com.
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 April 28, 2013:
Concert: Thursday,
May 2, 2013, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square - Campustorvet, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Giacomo di Tollo, piano, performs A Festival of Italian Operatic, Belle Époque and Contemporary Piano Transcriptions. Poster for the concert available HERE as a pdf-file. Program (with notes) available HERE as pdf-file. Please see HERE for more detailed information on the Lunchtime Concert Series at the University of Southern Denmark. Following the concert there will be a seminar with Giacomo di Tolo, PhD, LISIC -- Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Calais France: An Application of Cycles to Twelve-tone Structures, Thursday, May 2, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the twelfth and final seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE. For the fall 2013 seminar series, please see HERE.
April 23, 2013:
Concert: Wednesday,
April 24, 2013, 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. in Cafeteria 4 , University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Janus Araghipour, piano, plays music of Beethoven, Nielsen, Bach, Debussy, Schumann og Chopin. Poster for the concert available HERE as a pdf-file. Program (with notes) available HERE as pdf-file. Please see HERE for more detailed information on the Lunchtime Concert Series at the University of Southern Denmark. On Thursday, April 25, there will be a seminar with Carla Cash, PhD, Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy; Chair, Keyboard Area, School of Music;Texas Tech University; Lubbock, TX, via Skype:
Optimizing Music Learning: The Neuroscience of Skill Practice and Memory Formation, Thursday, April 25, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the eleventh seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.
 April 14, 2013:
Concert: Thursday,
April 18, 2013, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square - Campustorvet, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Morten Heide, piano, celebrates that 2013 is the bicentennial birthday year for Charle-Valentin Alkan. Poster for the concert available HERE as a pdf-file. Program (with notes) available HERE as pdf-file. Please see HERE for more detailed information on the Lunchtime Concert Series at the University of Southern Denmark. Following the concert there will be a seminar with Morten Heide, Pianist and Choral Director; NNIMIPA (Nordic Network for the Integration of Music Informatics, Performance and Aesthetics) delegate-at-large representing The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark (AMDA), Odense, Denmark. Charles-Valentin Alkan: The Pros and Cons of Virtuosity, Thursday, April 18, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the tenth seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.
April 6, 2013:
Mogens Davidsen, PhD, Associate Professor, Institute for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark. The Correlative Properties of the Unresolved Discord, Thursday, April 11, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the ninth seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.
April 2, 2013:
Mårten Nehrfors, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Musicology and Performance Studies, Stockholm U. (Via Skype).
Shaping the Community through Song - Ideology in the Song Collections of Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Thursday, April 4, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the eighth seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.
 March 15, 2013:
Concert: Thursday,
March 21, 2013, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square (Campustorvet), University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Emma Oemann, soprano, and Teresemarie Lisiux, piano, celebrate the arrival of spring with Britten, Mozart, Puccini and Bernstein. Please seeHEREfor more detailed information on the Lunchtime Concert Series at the University of Southern Denmark.
Following the concert there will be a seminar withTeresemarie Lisiux,
Cand. Musicae, Master of Music - main subject: classical piano. The Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, Southern Denmark. Progress in Piano Pedagogy through Research, Thursday, March 21, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the seventh seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be foundHERE.
March 9, 2013: Tere Vadén, Professor, Dept. of Art; School of Art, Design and Architecture; Aalto University, Helsinki (Via Skype). Dwelling “In-Between”: The Ineffability of Musical Meaning as an Asubjective Phenomenon, Thursday, March 14, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the sixth seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester is currently under construction and may be found HERE.
March 1, 2013: Mary L. Tuck, currently in the MA Ethnomusicology program at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. What Music Tells Us About Ourselves and Our Cultural Experience, Thursday, March 7, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the fifth seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be found HERE.
February 22, 2013: Nereya Otieno, Master's Candidate in Cognition and Communication, Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen.Music, Rhythm and Embodied Cognition, Thursday, February 28, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE.This is the fourth seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester may be foundHERE.
February 17, 2013: Concert: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 12 noon - 1 p.m. in Cafeteria 4, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Minako Jensen, piano, plays Chopin, Scriabin, Liszt and Brahms. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. The concert is followed by a seminar with
S. Alex
Ruthmann, PhD, Assistant Professor of Music Education, Department of Music; Faculty Fellow in Residence, Commonwealth Honors Program, University of Massachusetts Lowell; President, Association for Technology in Music Instruction; Co-Editor, International Journal of Education & the Arts: Aesthetics and Pedagogies for Making Music with New Media (Via Skype) on Thursday, February 21, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the third seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the
February 10, 2013: Golan Gur, MA, Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Musicology and Media Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin (Via Skype). Oracular Music: Musical Modernism and the Ideology of Progress, Thursday, February 14, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the second seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester is currently under construction and may be found HERE.
February 2, 2013: Matthias Bode, Associate Professor, Dept. of Marketing & Management, U. of Southern Denmark. On the Meanings of the Sounds of Commerce, Thursday, February 7, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the first seminar during the spring of 2013 in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound. The schedule for all seminars during the semester is currently under construction and may be found HERE.
February 1, 2013: This is the first day of the spring 2013 university semester here in Denmark, so welcome back to all who have spent the month of January either taking or grading exams!
This site will be updated during the next few days to reflect all that will be happening during the spring term. Please keep an eye out especially for the Lunchtime Concert Series and the seminar series Topics in the
Aesthetics of Music and Sound, and please check the site's calendar periodically for the other activities which will also be taking place throughout the spring semester.
December 10, 2012: Concert: Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square (Campustorvet) University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Nu er det jul with Nikolaj Nottelmann, tenor, and Cynthia M. Grund, piano. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. The seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Anne Helle Jespersen,  Research Librarian in Music, Head of Music Section; Library of the University of Southern Denmark, entitled 'Rhythmical Building Blocks': Creating Creativity which was scheduled to take place on Thursday, December 13, 3:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, IS BEING RESCHEDULED AS PART OF OUR SPRING SERIES. PLEASE WATCH FOR NEW DATE DURING THE SPRING! Poster for the seminar available HERE. For fall 2012 series information and updates, please see HERE.
December 1, 2012: Matthias Bode, Associate Professor, Dept. of Marketing & Management, U. of Southern Denmark. On the Meanings of the Sounds of Commerce, Thursday, December 6, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. NOTE: M. BODE RESCHEDULED - WATCH FOR NEW DATE DURING THE SPRING! Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the twelfth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester may be found HERE.
November 25, 2012: Oded Ben-Horin, Associate Professor, Stord Haugesund University College, Norway, Faculty of Learning and Culture (Music Dept.) - via Skype. Write a Science Opera on Thursday, November 29, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the eleventh seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester may be found HERE.
 -forskning i æstetiske læreprocesser gennem lyd i krop, kultur og kunst
(Soundtracks - research in aesthetic learning processes involving sound in the body, culture and art) please see HERE; poster available HERE. The course is offered in Danish by IKV-SDU on Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Pages with course materials HERE.
November 19, 2012: Concert: Thursday, November 22, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square (Campustorvet) University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Den første koncert i Syddansk Musikkonservatorium & Skuespillerskoles Kammermusikfestival 2012. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. Followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Tom Eide Osa, Associate Professor, University of Bergen, The Grieg Academy.  The seminar is entitled Wittgenstein and Music Performance as Aesthetic Practice and takes place, Thursday, November 22, 3:15 p.m.-5:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the tenth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
November 11, 2012: Tomas McAuley, PhD Candidate, Department of Music, King's College London (via Skype). Music and Epistemology: The Case of Friedrich Schlegel on Thursday, November 15, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the ninth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester may be found HERE.
November 2, 2012: S. Alex
Ruthmann, PhD, Assistant Professor of Music Education, Department of Music; Faculty Fellow in Residence, Commonwealth Honors Program, University of Massachusetts Lowell; President, Association for Technology in Music Instruction; Co-Editor, International Journal of Education & the Arts: Aesthetics and Pedagogies for Making Music with New Media (Via Skype)on Thursday, November 8, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. (NOTE: A. RUTHMANN RESCHEDULED - WATCH FOR NEW DATE! On November 8, Oded Ben-Horin gives us a "preview of coming attractions" for his talk on November 29.) Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the eighth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester may be found HERE.
 October 27, 2012: Concert: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 12 noon - 1 p.m. on the Campus Square (Campustorvet) University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Martin Vestergård Hansen, piano, & Josefine Opsahl, cello, play Cassadó, Bach and Debussy. Concert poster available HERE. Concert program available HERE. Followed by a seminar in the series Topics in the Aesthetics of Music and Sound with Matias Vestergård Hansen, currently studying piano with Amalie Malling at the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music. The seminar is entitled Composition as Inquiry and takes place, Thursday, November 1, 4:15 p.m.-6:00 p.m. in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIME OF THE SEMINAR HAS BEEN CHANGED TO 4:15 P.M. SO AS NOT TO COLLIDE WITH THE HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN ACADEMY ANNUAL LECTURE AT SDU AT 3:00 P.M. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the seventh seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. For series information and updates, please see HERE.
October 5, 2012: Niels Chr. Hansen; Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University Hospital; Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom; Royal Academy of Music Aarhus.
Elucidating the Significance of Statistical Learning in Music Cognition through Behavioural Experiments and Computational Modelling on Thursday, October 11, 3:15 p.m. - 5 p.m. in in U73, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M. Audience participation via Skype is also welcome. Poster for the seminar available HERE. This is the sixth seminar in a series of 13 seminars during the fall of 2012. The schedule for all 13 seminars during the semester may be found HERE.
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