19th Century Salon

&
les Salons Bruxello-Gantoises
Embedding historical sources in modern-day performance of romantic music
7-8 December 2022 @ Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel/Erasmushogeschool

9 December 2022 @ KASKConservatorium Gent/HoGent & Orpheus Instituut

With support of: research fund Erasmushogeschool Brussel, Alliantiefonds HoGent/EHB,

onderzoeksfonds KASK & Conservatorium (HoGent – HoWest).
Abstract:

The 19th Century Salon offers performers chance to explore historical style, expression and
ensemble performance practices in ‘long' 19th century chamber music by working side-by-
side with leading international performer-scholars. The event is designed to bring together
musicians with an interest in 19th-century performance to make new connections, foster a
community and explore challenging ideas in a supportive and open environment.

Two days of immersive coaching, workshops, presentations and discussions will depart
from music practice in assigned chamber music groups, exploring new approaches to 19th
century music-making by playing alongside the course tutors. The salon will focus
extensively on the aspect of historical acoustic recordings as a source for artistic
exploration of Romantic music, and participating students and teachers will have the
opportunity to record an acoustic carrier (wax roll) in the run of the research days.
Participating students will be able to choose a work from an assigned repertoire list to
perform and discuss during the workshops.

Alongside presentations by the course staff and researchers from EHB and HoGent, each the
‘salon’ offers a space for discussion, readings, spontaneous music-making and sharing of
participants’ own research.
Tutors/Lecturers:

Dr. Inja Stanovic (pianist, early recording specialist)

Dr. George Kennaway (cellist, composer, conductor , researcher- - low strings)

Dr. David Milsom (violinist, teacher, researcher - high strings)

Dr. Emily Worthington (clarinet player, researcher - woodwinds)

Dr. Jeroen Billiet (horn player, researcher -brass)

Dr. Aleks Kolkowski (violinist, composer, early recording specialist) -only 8/12 &
9/12

Dr. Tom Beghin (pianist, researcher) - only 9/12

High Strings

Dr. David Milsom (University of Huddersfield, UK) is a senior lecturer, violin and viola
teacher, and performer (on modern and period instruments). In addition to his work
leading ‘classical music’ performance at Huddersfield, he is involved in a considerable
amount of ‘grassroots’ teaching, and his work in the field of nineteenth-century string
performing practices has focused for some time on disseminative processes. This took the
form of an AHRC Fellowship with Clive Brown at Leeds (2006-9), performing in the light of
historical evidence, and more recently in his second major monograph, Romantic Violin
Performing Practices – A Handbook (Boydell, Woodbridge, 2020), which seeks to act as a guide
and commentary in order to enthuse a wider cohort in such experimental practices. His
most recent work has been in producing new recordings by acoustic processes, including
launch of ‘Austro-German Revivals’ (Pennine Records, 2022) with Inja Stanovic.

Low Strings

Dr George Kennaway is a Scottish cellist, conductor, teacher, publisher, and musicologist.

He has taught at the Royal Northern College of Music, the Lithuanian National Academy of
Music, the Abbaye aux dames (Saintes, France),and the Sibelius Academy Helsinki, and has
lectured at several UK universities. His publications include Playing the Cello 1780-
1930 (2014), John Gunn: Musician Scholar in Enlightenment Britain (2021), and articles and book
chapters on aspects of 19th-century performance research. He is also an authority on the
work of the Lithuanian composer/artist Mikalojus Čiurlionis (1875–1911) and has recently
joined the editorial team creating a new critical edition of his music.
Woodwinds

Dr. Emily Worthington is equally at home playing, talking about, and writing on music from
Haydn and Mozart to Mahler and Hindemith. Trained at the University of York and Royal
College of Music, she divides her time between performing on historical clarinets from her
own substantial collection, and researching and lecturing on the practice and culture of
musical performance from c.1750-1950 at the University of York, UK.
Emily is in much demand as a professional clarinettist specialising in period instruments
from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. She is regularly invited to perform as a guest
principal with leading ensembles around the world, including Anima Eterna, Les Arts
Florissants, Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Concerto Copenhagen,
Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra and Spira Mirabilis.
Emily also leads Boxwood & Brass, a Harmonie specialising in performing Classical and
Early-Romantic wind repertoire on period instruments. Boxwood & Brass's recordings for
Resonus Classics have been called 'dazzlingly persuasive' (BBC Music Magazine), 'button-
bright' (Gramophone), 'revelatory' (Early Music Today) and 'joyous listening' (The
Artsdesk).

Brass

Dr. Jeroen Billiet is a horn player and researcher, currently professor of horn at Koninklijk
Conservatorium in Brussels, Belgium. His passion for historical instruments led him to a
career including solo horn positions with prestigious international ensembles as Il
Fondamento, les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble, le Concert d’Astrée and les Talens Lyriques. As a
researcher his main interest lies in the loop between context, repertoire and musical practice
in a multifocal context. He was host of the 51st International Horn Symposium in Ghent in
2019 and received the Punto Award from the international Horn Society in the same year.
Chamber music with piano/percussion/plucked strings

Dr. Inja Stanović is a Croatian pianist and a published author. Inja is a Lecturer in Music at
City, University of London. Her current research and artistic interests are early recordings
and their production, alongside historical performance practices.

Piano (Friday morning workshop only)

Dr. Tom Beghin combines a career as performer with that of researcher and teacher. His
newest book, Beethoven’s French Piano (Chicago, 2022), follows a double CD with sonatas by
Beethoven, Adam, and Steibelt (EPR, 2020; winner of the Belgian 2020 Caecilia Prize).
Alumnus of the HIP doctoral program at Cornell University, he served on the faculties of the
University of Los Angeles, California, and McGill University. Since 2015, he has been Senior
Researcher at the Orpheus Institute for Advanced Studies & Research in Music, in Ghent,
Belgium. His research cluster, “Declassifying the Classics,” focuses on the intersections of
technology, rhetoric, and performance.
 SCHEDULE
The 19th Century Salon

Enrollment: https://jeroenbillietehb.wufoo.com/forms/z13k7gkw09n9p40/
Wednesday 7 December – Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel

Campus Kleine Zavel – Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussel - room 140

Campus Regentschapstraat – Regentschapstraat 30, 1000 Brussel

9:30 - 11:30 keynote session KCB Kleine Zavel

Room 71
Jeroen Billiet,
Emily Worthington, Metatopics:
George Kennaway,
Inja Stanovic 1.methodology
2. style
(David Milsom present) 3. sources (and how to find them)
4. relevance for current-day playing practice
Researching artists talk about their
experiences in music performance through
research

11:30-11:45 break
11:45-12:45 Specialist course 140 Strings (David & George)
41 Winds (Jeroen/Emily)
Experience acoustic recordings for your 150 Others (Inja)
own instrument group

13-14 Lunch break

14:00-15:30 Workshop I – 3 rooms See detailed schedule below

15:30-16:30 Short Lectures and Discussion:

Romantic performance

David Milsom
Inja Stanovic
George Kennaway

16:30-18:00 Workshop II – 3 rooms

16:00 -17:00 Introduction to acoustic recording A04

techniques
Thursday 8 December – Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel

Campus Kleine Zavel – Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussel

Campus Regentschapstraat – Regentschapstraat 30, 1000 Brussel

9:30-10:00 Introduction to acoustic recording Regentschapstr. room A04

techniques Aleks, Inja

See detailed schedule below

10:00-17:00 Acoustic recording studio in A04

9:30 -12:00 Workshop III – chamber music and solo Jeroen, Emily, George, David
works Detailed schedule below

10:30-12:00 : workshop/lecture clarinet class A217 TBC

12:00-13:00 Lunch break(s)
13:00-16:00 lectures & discussion rounds Small Concert Hall
13:00-13:30: introduction (Kleine Zavel)

13:30-14:00 Style

Dr. David Milsom: LIVESTREAM ON KCB

on romantic style violin playing YOUTUBE PAGE

14:00-14:45 Relevance for current-day playing practice

discussion with Dr. Jan Michiels (KCB) and

Dr. Inja Stanovic

14:45-15:00 BREAK

15:00-15:30 Sources (and how to find them)

Stefaan Verdegem (KCB):

On making a new critical edition of the
Donizetti English horn Concertino

Dr. Luc Vertommen (KCB)

on unlocking wind ensemble music of the
interwar Brussels Synthétistes.

15:30-16:00 Methodology

Mathieu Thonon/ Fañch Thoraval (MIM)

The audiovisual collection of the MIM, between
material and immaterial heritage: focus on the
sound archives and their digitization.
16:30-17:00 Break – setup in hall
17:00-18:00 Lecture-recitals with students, tutors and Concert Hall
teachers

David Milsom and Joanna Staruch-Smolec

Jeroen Billiet and Inja Stanovic
George Kennaway

Presentation by Dr. Aleks Kolkowski

+ Discussion of selected recorded cylinders
9 December – Orpheus Instituut and KASK&Conservatorium

Les Salons Bruxello-Gantoises: Embedding historical sources into performace of Romantic

Music.

Deze studiedag focust op het praktijkgericht aanwenden van historisch bronnenmateriaal

bij de uitvoering van muziek uit de Romantische periode.
Studenten, docenten en onderzoekers van HoGent/KASKConservatorium en Koninklijk
Conservatorium Brussel gaan in dialoog met externe onderzoekers over hun ervaringen,
methodieken, onderzoeksresultaten en bevindingen. Dit gebeurt aan de hand van
praktijkgerichte workshops door internationale onderzoekers, gevolgd door een ronde-
tafelconferentie en een selectie van praktijkgerichte lecture-performances.
De studiedag vormt een aanzet tot het inrichten van een hogeschooloverschrijdende
onderzoeksgroep binnen het veld van de uitvoeringspraktijk van muziek uit de romantische
periode.

This seminar focuses on the practice-oriented use of historical source material in the
performance of music from the Romantic period.
Students, teachers and researchers from HoGent/KASKConservatorium, Koninklijk
Conservatorium Brussel and Orpheus Instituut will dialogue with external researchers
about their experiences, methodologies, research results and findings. This will be done
through practice-oriented workshops by international researchers, followed by a round-
table conference and a selection of practice-oriented lecture-performances.
The study day marks the beginning of the establishment of a cross-high school research
group within the field of performance practice of music from the Romantic period.

Lecturers:

Dr. Inja Stanovic (pianist -University of London)

Dr. George Kennaway (cellist - University of Leeds)

Dr. David Milsom (violinist -University of Huddersfield)

Dr. Emily Worthington (clarinet -University of York)

Dr. Jeroen Billiet (horn – Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel /KASK &

Conservatorium (HoGent-HoWest))

Dr. Aleks Kolkowski (violinist, composer, early recording specialist)

Dr. Tom Beghin (pianist -Orpheus Instituut)

FRIDAY 9 DECEMBER - Ghent

Orpheus Instituut – Korte Meer 12, 9000 Gent

HoGent Campus Kleine Sikkel – Biezekapelstraat 4, 9000 Gent
HoGent Campus de Wijnaert and Music Library – Geraard De Duivelstraat 1, 9000 Gent

09:30 -11:00 Workshop I @ Orpheus Instituut - PIANISTS Orpheus -

‘the early 19th century piano : sources in Tom Beghin, Inja
musical instruments’ Stanovic

‘Around the historical piano’

Workshop II @ Miry Conservatorium Gent- Miry Hall-

ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS
George Kennaway,
‘orchestral instruments in early recordings - David Milsom,
sources for performance?’ Jeroen Billiet

Workshop III @ Mengal Conservatorium

Gent

‘the early clarinet and romantic Mengal Hall

performance’ Emily
11:15-14:15 Round table -‘printed romantic sources in Wijnaert music library
perspective’ (5 minutes walk from
all venues)

All Tutors +
Eddy Vanoosthuyse
Tom Beghin
Luc Vertommen

Including Lunch break

(sandwiches provided by
KASKConservatorium for tutors and invited
researchers)

13:30-14:00 Tour of Wijnaert music library Richard Sutcliffe

focus on sources of romantic music

14:30-17:30 ‘sources in recorded music’ -Acoustic Miry - all

recording studio

with tutors, KASKConservatorium classical See detailed schedules

music & production students & teachers TBC below
Active participants (version 1/12) - KCB:

NAME INSTRUMENT PROPOSAL COMMENTS

Jan Michiels piano Debussy prelude Teacher/no
workshop
Anna Nagwanshi-Kostina piano Beethoven Sonata in A-flat Inja
major op.26 OR
Rachmaninov 3 op.30
I.movement
Boris Uzonov piano Chopin: 4th Balade Inja
Boris Atanazov piano Inja
KCB wind ensemble Wind Dvorak: Serenade Emily/Jeroen
ensemble
KCB horn ensemble 7 horns J.H. Schaeken: septuor Jeroen
Stefanie Van Gool flute Fauré: Fantaisie Emily
Pieter d’Hoe horn F. Strauss: Nocturno Jeroen
Matija Blagojevic cello ? George
Christina Tsakalidou - Piano quartet Franck Bridge - phantasy
violin Joana Revez for piano quartet in F# David
Mendonça - viola Sebastian minor
Rodriguez - celo José
Borges - piano
Marcello Masi Flute Doppler fantaisie pastorale Emily
hongroise
Sarah Bottiau, piano Piano trio George &
Célestine Wacquez, flute David
Guillermo Parra Iglesias,
cello
Justine Vercruysse Horn Gounod, mélodie n°1 Jeroen
Joanna Staruc-Smolech Violin TBC David
Active Participants (version 1/12) - KASK&Conservatorium Gent:

NAME INSTRUMENT PROPOSAL COMMENTS

Silvia Congia Violin Trio élégiaque n.1
Mireia Vaquer Cello Rachmaninoff.
Sarshar Ghozat piano
Siqing Du piano ?
Zixi Huang clarinet

Camilla Köhnken piano Liszt, En rêve. Orpheus

Nina Hanssens violin
Trumpet
student TBC
COACHING SESSIONS: WEDNESDAY 7 DECEMBER -BRUSSELS

TIME ROOM 150 ROOM 41 ROOM 140

14:00 INJA EMILY GEORGE

Anna Nagwanshi- Stephanie Van Gool:

Kostina – Rachmaninov Fauré
/Beethoven

14:30 EMILY GEORGE

Marcello Masi: Doppler

15:00 INJA: EMILY DAVID

Boris Uzonov: Chopin Mark Iakovlev:

Demersseman

TIME ROOM 150 ROOM 41 ROOM 140

16:30 INJA: Boris Atanazov DAVID GEORGE

Sarah Bottiau, piano Célestine Christina Tsakalidou

Wacquez, flute Guillermo - violin Joana Revez
Parra Iglesias, cello
Mendonça - viola
Sebastian Rodriguez
- cello José Borges –
piano

Bridge

17:00 JEROEN DAVID

Justine Vercruysse:
Gounod Christina Tsakalidou
- violin Joana Revez
Mendonça - viola
Sebastian Rodriguez
- cello José Borges –
piano

Bridge

17:30
DETAILED SCHEDULE COACHING SESSIONS AND RECORDINGS
THURSDAY 8 DECEMBER

EMILY: 10:30-12:00 : clarinet workshop in A217 (clarinet class, 5th floor régence)
JEROEN & EMILY: 12:20-13h: Dvorak in A04

TIME ROOM 40 ROOM 41 ROOM 140

09:30

10:00 JEROEN

Schaeken:
Septet (7 horns)
10:30 JEROEN

Pieter d’Hoe: Strauss

11:00

11:30

ACOUSTIC RECORDING SESSIONS -BRUSSELS -REGENCE A04

9:30-10 GENERAL INFO SESSION

10-10:20 + Jan Michiels

10:20-10:40 Marcello Masi -flute

10:40-11:00 Stefanie Van Gool -flute

11:00-11:20 Mark Iakovlev -flute

11:20-11:45 HORN SEPTET

11:45-12:10 Trio
 Sarah Bottiau, piano Célestine
Wacquez, flute Guillermo Parra
Iglesias, cello
12:10-12:30 Pieter d’Hoe -horn

12:30-13:00 LUNCH BREAK

(Dvorak rehearsal/coaching
and setup – Emily)
13:00-13:30 Dvorak wind serenade Jeroen present

13:30-13:50 Anna Nagwanshi-Kostina

13:50-14:10 Boris Uzonov -piano Inja replaced by George?
13:50-15:00
14:10-14:30 Boris Atanazov -piano
14:30-14:50 Justine Vercruysse -horn
14:50-15:20 BREAK
15:20-15:40

15:40-16:00
16:00-16:30 PIANO QUARTET

Christina Tsakalidou - violin

Joana Revez Mendonça -
viola Sebastian Rodriguez -
cello José Borges – piano