Date/Time
Tue, Jan 21, 2025
5:00 pm EST - 6:30 pm EST
Bios
Dorian Bandy is Associate Professor of Musicology and Historical Performance at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. He is the author of Mozart the Performer (University of Chicago Press, 2023) as well as articles and book chapters on the rhetoric of embellishment in Mozart and Beethoven, the analysis of Mozart’s operas, variation techniques in 17th-century instrumental music, and topic theory. Alongside his scholarly activities, Dorian is active as a conductor and performer on historical violins and keyboards. His most recent solo recording (featuring an extensively embellished reading of Mozart’s string duos as well as historical arrangements of La Clemenza di Tito and the Violin Sonata K.305) will be released in January 2025 (available here). In 2024 he received the Marjorie Weston Emerson Award from the Mozart Society of America.
W. Dean Sutcliffe is Professor in the School of Music at the University of Auckland, and has been co-editor of Eighteenth-Century Music since its inception in 2004. Recent publications include the chapters “Gracious Beethoven?” in Beethoven Studies 4 and “Counterpoint without Anxiety? Andreas Romberg’s String Quartets Op. 2, Dedicated to Haydn” in String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe, the book Instrumental Music in an Age of Sociability: Haydn, Mozart and Friends, and the edition Andreas Romberg: Three String Quartets Op. 2 (2023). His most recent article is “What is Haydn Doing in a John Field Nocturne?”, published in the journal Music Analysis in 2023.
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