[LIMITED SEATS] Forum: A Comprehensive Study for the Performance of Chopin’s Mazurkas Op. 56
17 March • 5:30pm
Steven Baxter Recital Studio
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KOO SIAW SING, presenter
ABOUT THIS EVENT
This lecture-performance provides a comprehensive understanding of Chopin’s Mazurkas Op. 56 through the study of its historical perspectives and its stylistic approaches towards the Polish national dances. The presentation will eventually lead into the discovery of the compositional aspects that include configuring the structural analysis and finding harmonic interests that underlie in the Mazurkas. Through a comprehensive study of the Mazurkas, the lecture will lead into the discussion of performance perspectives. Thus, a performer will be able to make a critical and informed interpretation of the Mazurkas that adhere to the correct stylistic approaches and performance practices.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Dr. Siaw-Sing Koo has been teaching at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music since 2006. He currently teaches Keyboard Studies and Social History of the Piano. Prior to that, he held a piano teaching position at Augustana College in Illinois and was a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon teaching piano and music theory. As a music educator and pianist, his vision is to cultivate public appreciation towards piano music, and to teach on the subject of piano performance interpretation and piano teaching concepts through lecture-performances. He has presented lecture-performances on the repertoire of Chinese piano music, covering a wide spectrum of both the traditional and the contemporary works which have been widely recognized at several international music conferences such as Australasia Piano Pedagogy Conference, Music Teachers’ Association of California Convention, Performers’ Present Symposium, University of Malaya International Music Conference and Singapore International Piano Pedagogy Symposium. He has also presented lectures on the piano interpretation of Debussy’s Preludes at MTNA National Convention in USA and Western Australia Piano Pedagogy Convention. Recently, he presented the piano education of Robert Schumann at the UCSI Piano Pedagogy Conference in Malaysia.
TICKETING INFORMATION
• Free admission.
• All event information is correct at time of print.
• Out of respect for other concertgoers, no children under 6 years of age will be allowed admission.
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