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Olly Wilson Memorial Symposium

  • UC Berkeley Department of Music 250 Morrison Hall Berkeley, CA (map)

OLLY WILSON MEMORIAL SYMPOSIUM

Performing Arts - Music | February 16 | 12:30 p.m. | 250 Morrison Hall

12:30-1 Gather and Greet ; 1:00-1:15 Call to Order and Welcome with Professors Cindy Cox and Edmund Campion Department of Music, UC Berkeley;1:15 Candace Johnson — Department of Music, UC Berkeley
There is a Need; 1:30 Robert Greenberg — Historian, Composer, Pianist, Speaker, Author; 1:45 Anthony Kelly — Composer, Associate Professor of the Practice of Music, Duke University; 2:00 Trevor Weston — Composer, Professor of Music, Drew University; 2:15 Laurie San Martin — Composer, Professor and Chair of the Department of Music, UC Davis; 2:30 Tom Swafford — Violinist, Composer and Arranger

3:00 Professor Ben Brinner and Emeritus Professor Bonnie Wade, Department of Music, UC Berkeley; 3:15 Anthony Brown — Composer, Percussionist, Educator, and Ethnomusicologist; 3:30 Steve Pond — Professor of Ethnomusicology, Cornell University 3:45 Vijay Iyer — Franklin D. And Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts, Harvard University; 4:00 Olly Wilson Video; 4:15 Shannon Dudley — Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Washington

4:30 Performance of Olly Wilson’s Trio for violin, cello & piano, 1976 
Anna Presler – Violin
Leighton Fong – Cello
Allegra Chapman – Piano

4:45-6 reception / Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities