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symposium schedule

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thursday, october 15, 2026

1:30 PM

Registration opens

2:00 PM

Welcome: Dr. Fanarelia Guerrero-López and Dr. Luis Sanchez

2:30 PM

An Interpretive and Pedagogical Analysis of the Pasillos de Gala by Jesús Pinzón Urrea

Wilson Casallas (Colombia)

3:00 PM

Argentine Lyricism in Carlos Guastavino's Romance del Plata: A Lecture-Recital

Ahn Giyong & Park SungEun (South Korea)

3:30 PM

Voices Of The Piano In America: Craftsmen And Composers

Fredericka King (USA)

4:00 PM

Music dialogues across generations: Chilean women composers  of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

Camila Osses (Chile)

4:30 PM

Brazilian Influences on Nineteenth-Century French Music

Rosangela Sebba (Brazil)

5:00 PM

Neurocognitive Demands and Didactic Implications for the Interpretation of Two Contemporary Piano Works from Ecuador and Colombia

Jackeline Gutiérrez Castillo (Ecuador)

7:30 PM

NTIPS GALA CONCERT

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8:45 PM

Reception for all presenters

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2026

8:30 AM

Registration open

9:00 AM

Welcome: Director of the School of Music: Elizabeth Janzen

9:10 AM

Welcome: Dr. Fanarelia Guerrero-Lopez & Dr. Luis Sanchez

9:30 AM

The 300 Trozos of Sentimiento Popular: National Identity and Musical Language  in the Piano Works of Guillermo Uribe Holguín (1880–1971)

Andrés Gómez Bravo (Colombia)

10:00 AM

Self-Anthropophagy: A reflection on the Indigenous Sounds in Villa-Lobos’s Dança do Índio Branco

Rafael Lima de Paula (Brazil)

10:30 AM

Ánima - Arreglos para piano de música del Oriente Boliviano

Marianela Aparicio Yuja (Bolivia)

11:00 AM

Coffee Break

11:30 AM

Composer's Portrait: Antonio María Valencia

David Cordoba-Hernandez (Colombia)

12:00 PM

Lunch on your own

2:00 PM

Sandungandanzas: Variations Across Latin America

Manuel Matarrita (Costa Rica)

2:30 PM

Collaborative Interpretation in Latin American Art Song:  Voice and Piano in Dialogue Across Mexico and Colombia

Svetlana Stone & Wilson Casallas (Latvia, Colombia)

3:00 PM

Ritmos del Sur

Jorge Briceño & Andrea Chinchilla (Costa Rica)

3:30 PM

Coffee break

4:00 PM

Round Table Discussion

5:00 PM

Dinner on your own

6:30 PM

NTIPS Online Competition

7:30 PM

Reception for all presenters

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2026

9:00 AM

Registration open

9:30 AM

The piano works of Adolfo Mejia 

Felipe Calle (Colombia)

10:00 AM

Diary of a Child: A Pedagogical Exploration of Ernesto Lecuona’s Children’s Suite

Emma Fernández (USA)

10:30 AM

Coffee Break

11:00 AM

Teaching Imagination and Artistry

Grace Ho (USA)

11:30 AM

Uncommon Ground: Colombian Piano Music Then and Now

Natalia Vanegas Escobar (Colombia)

12:00 PM

A Four-Hand Piano Suite Based on Chiquinha Gonzaga’s Brazilian Tangos

Yeseul Cho & Sujeong Sin (South Korea)

12:30 PM

Lunch on your own

2:00 PM

Expanding the Contemporary Latin American Piano Repertoire Through the Music of Colombian Composer and Pianist Carolina Calvache

Carolina Calvache (Colombia- United States)

2:30 PM

Teaching Mexican Folk Idioms in Piano Pedagogy through Ponce and Ortiz

Chuan Choy & Yi Yun Chin (Malaysia)

3:00 PM

NTIPS In-person Competition

4:30 PM

Awards & Closing - Reception Follow

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