9.30am - 10.00am           

Keynote speaker – Sara Carvalho

 

10.00am - 10.30am             

Paper – Alan Shockley 

The Play of Experimentation: Extended Techniques for the Toy Piano

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10.30am - 11.00am     

Paper – Diana Blom 

Drawing Texture with the Toy Piano

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11.00am - 11.30am

Morning Tea

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11.30am - 12.30am 

Concert – Antonietta Loffredo, toy piano

                  Fabio Luppi, toy piano

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Music by Giorgio Musolesi, Chris Adams, J.M. Block, Marco Pedrazzi, Erwin Deleux, Gian Paolo Luppi, Diana Blom, Aaron Rosenberg, Marina Masiero, Alicia Sánchez Reyes, Benjiamin Buchanan 

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2.30pm - 3.00pm               

Book presentation:  “The Toy Piano. From the Playroom to the Concert Platform” (Ut Orpheus Edizioni) 

Conversation between Stefano Lamon and author Antonietta Loffredo 
 

3.00pm - 3.30pm 

Paper – Paul Smith

Subversive Sounds: Toy Piano and Voice as Counterhegemonic Forces in The City/The Forest 

 

3.30pm - 4.00pm 

Paper – Giovanna Carugno

The Play-a-Way Piano: Historical and Pedagogical Considerations on a 20th Century Musical Instrument for Untrained Children
 

4.00pm - 4.45pm 

Afternoon Tea

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4.45pm - 5.15pm 

Paper – Mercedes Zavala

From Piano to Toy Piano: Composing as a Rite of Passage

5.30pm - 6.30pm                                 

Concert (part I) – Pupils of the middle state school I.C. Cernobbio (toy piano) – Mercedes Zavala (conductor)

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Concert (part II) – Paul Smith, toy piano and voice

                                The City/The Forest for toy piano, electronics and voice

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