Interpreting Messianen's Piano Music: call for paper

The Royal Academy of Music is pleased to announce a call for papers for the Symposium "Interpreting Messiaen's Piano Music", held in association with the Southbank Centre's Messiaen Centenary Festival From the Canyons to the Stars and in affiliation with the Royal Musical Association.
The symposium will be held on Friday 17 October 2008, from 9.30am to 5.00pm, followed by a concert featuring solo piano music by Messiaen given by Academy piano students in the Duke's Hall at 7.30pm. It will include contributions from Peter Hill and Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and conclude with a round-table discussion chaired by Roderick Chadwick. There will be two sessions of three 30 minute papers/presentations each, including performance (if appropriate), questions and discussion, chaired by David Gorton. The theme for the symposium will be specifically practice-based, with papers being selected on the strength of the research questions posed in the area of Messiaen's piano music. The symposium will be free to attend and fully open to the public with no need to register.
Please send abstracts by email of no more than 300 words, along with your contact details and institutional affiliation (if any), before Friday 30 May to d.gorton@ram.ac.uk