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This dissertation examines the airs sérieux contained within the Recueils d’airs serieux et a boire de differents autheurs published by the Ballard printing house in Paris between 1695 and 1699 inclusive.

How can historically-informed performers step outside the confines of the work-concept?

At present, historically-informed performance (HIP) functions simultaneously as an established musical tradition and as a method for artistic inquiry and renewal. HIP’s capacity to effect change within artistic practice is, however, constrained by its own doxa. This study therefore asks the question: what kinds of new practices might have once been, and might still become possible without the influence of the work-concept?

On June 11, trombonist Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn will receive his doctorate for his research “Poiesis and the Performance Practice of Physically Polyphonic Notations.” He has conducted this research in recent years through the docARTES program and under the supervision of promoters Marcel Cobussen and Richard Barrett, both affiliated with Leiden University at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), the research institute for artistic research.

On December 11 Ilya Ziblat Shay will publicly defend his thesis at the University of Leiden.

Concert as part of the PhD Defence by Ilya Ziblat Shay.

Stations and Journeys, ensemble piece performed by ensemble Modelo62

Slil, for viola and electronics performed by Maya Felixbrodt and Ilya Ziblat.