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Day 2 Sunday 7 July

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

10.30am - 11.00am     

Paper – Diana Blom 

Drawing Texture with the Toy Piano

11.00am - 11.30am

Morning Tea

11.30am - 12.30am 

Concert – Antonietta Loffredo, toy piano

                  Fabio Luppi, toy piano

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 

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

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)

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

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

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