symposium schedule

Music Building Lobby (Map B26)

8:00 - Registration

Recital Hall

9:00 - Welcome: Dr. Eric Brascome

Texas A&M University-Commerce

School of Music, chair 

9:10 - Welcome and orientation: Dr. Fanarelia Guerrero Lopez & Dr. Luis Sanchez

North Texas International Piano Symposium, Co-Directors

9:30 - Luis Jorge Gonzalez's "Sonata del Plata": the beginning of the “return home” 

by an immigrant composer in the US

Alejandro Cremaschi (Argentina)

10:00 - Unheard Voices of Latin America 

ILonka Rus (Romania/USA)

10:30 - The literary character and French music influence on "Impressões Seresteiras" 

by Heitor Villa-Lobos

Evangelista Junior (Brazil)

Music Building Lobby

11:00 - Coffee Break

Recital Hall

11:30 - Ronaldo Miranda: The Four Hand Piano Work

Diego Caetano, Ilonka Rus, Ann DuHamel, and Daniel Linder  (Brazil - Romania - USA)

12:00 - Framing the Composer-Pianist in Twentieth-Century Chile: 

Three Case Studies of Women Composers

Camila Osses (Chile)

12:30 - Lunch (on your own)

Music Building - Room 158 (Online Sessions)

2:00 - Brazilian Four hand Piano Music: A Lecture Recital

Fátima Monteiro Corvisier & Fernando Corvisier (Brazil)

2:30 - The Piano Suites by Costa Rican Composer Ricardo Ulloa Barrenechea

Manuel Matarrita (Costa Rica)

Recital Hall

3:00 - l Mistralitas, Violetas and Licarayen: 

Poetry, Folklore, and Indigenous Heritage in Chilean Music

Karina Glasinovic (Chile)

3:30 - Exploring Almeida Prado’s 14 Noturnos for Solo Piano

Daniel Linder (USA)

Music Building Lobby 

4:00 - Coffee break

4:30 - Celebrating Guanacaste: Dances and Melodies from Costa Rica’s Northwest

Jorge Briceño González (Costa Rica)

5:00 - Trailblazing Women: Rediscovering Early 20th-Century Argentine Piano Concert Works

Florencia Zuloaga (Argentina)

5:30 - Dinner (on your own)

Finney Concert Hall 

7:30 -  Gala Concert with Duo Mundi George & Guli

George Lopez and Gulimina Mahamuti, pianos

 Reception to follow

Music Building Lobby (Map B26)

8:00 - Registration

Recital Hall

9:00 - Keynote: Dr. Leah Claiborne

9:45 - Masterclass with Leah Claiborne

10:45 -  Q&A with Guest Artists and Keynote speaker

Music Building Lobby

11:15 - Coffee Break

Recital Hall

11:30 - Diversifying Piano Pedagogy: A Comparative Study of Brazilian Piano Works and Established Piano Methods.

Helber Fernandes Ribeiro (Brazil)

12:00 - Lunch (on your own) 

Music Building Room 158 (Online Sessions)

1:30 - Chileans at the Piano: A Dialogue about Education and Heritage

Rosa Vergara and Dominga Tomic (Chile)

2:00 - The Women Behind the Music

Rosangela Yazbec Sebba (Brazil/USA)

2:30 - Two Twentieth-Century Colombian Toccatas: A Pedagogical Approach

Felipe Calle (Colombia)

Recital Hall

3:00 - Echoes of Brazil: Incorporating Brazilian Styles into the Piano Studio

Guilherme Lopes Correa (Brazil)

3:30 - Mexico In my Studio: Intermediate Piano Pieces by Carlos Chavez and Manuel M. Ponce,

Lorena Gonzalez Brougher (Mexico)

4:00 - Closing