9:00AM Grab a cup of tea or coffee, catch up with old friends and colleagues and meet new ones
9:25AM Performance by SMTA member, TBA
9:30AM Business
10:00-11:00AM Presentation: “Debussy’s Paris: A City, a Composer, and his Piano” by Catherine Kautsky, George and Marjorie Chandler Professor of Music and Chair of Keyboard Department at Lawrence University
A look at Debussy’s piano music as it relates to the Paris of his time. Learn about the ways that Debussy’s music reflects French attitudes toward race, gender, and colonialism. Identify the myriad references to poems, paintings, fairy tales, and children’s books that are embedded in the Preludes and other piano works. Start to see Debussy as the consummate Parisian and very much a product of his place and time!
Catherine Kautsky, Chair of Keyboard at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI, has been lauded by the New York Times as “a pianist who can play Mozart and Schubert as though their sentiments and habits of speech coincided exactly with hers …
Known as both a solo and collaborative performer, Ms. Kautsky has performed chamber music at the Aspen, Tanglewood, and Grand Teton Festivals, and presented masterclasses on five continents, including 2018 appearances in Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, and Hanoi.
Ms Kautsky has just released a 24 video set, “Great Works for the Piano” for Great Courses/Wondrium, https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-piano-works-explained and is also presenting online courses on piano literature for the Juilliard Extension Division and the 92 nd Str. Y of New York City. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory, a master’s from the Juilliard School, and a doctorate from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
http://faculty.lawrence.edu/kautskyc/