Interpretation Seminar with Guest Professor Jordi Mora, Spain

Examples of general aspects of interpretation that will be discussed:

• Structured evolution as a condition to get into the essence of a musical piece
• Breathing as a decisive orientation to an understanding of the phrasing
• The 3 main parameters to find melodic tension and distension: pitches, harmonic relationships and “extrovert” and “introvert” fifths.
• The essence of tension and distension in the relationship of repetition
• The essence of musical form: discovering musical form as an understanding of what creates a sense of unity in a piece of music and what this implies for the performer.

PROGRAM

Monday 11 October, 09.15-12.30, room 209

Lecture: Using phenomenology of music as a tool for musical orientation with examples from works by Schumann, Mozart, Grieg and Bach. Part I.

Tuesday 12 October, 09.15-12.30, room 209

Lecture: Using phenomenology of music as a tool for musical orientation with examples from works by Schumann, Mozart, Grieg and Bach. Part II.

Wednesday 13 October, 09.15-12.00, room 206

Master Class (with Master students)

Thursday 14 October, 09.15-12.00, GSS

Master Class (with Master students)

Friday 15 October, 09.15-13.00, Prøvesalen

Master Class (with Master students)

JORDI MORA  

was born in Barcelona, where he began his musical studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música and completed Choral Conducting. He graduated as an oboist from the Hochschule für Musik in Würzburg, Germany, and took a degree in Musicology at the University of Munich, where he completed a dissertation entitled “The structuring of vertical functions in the symphonic works of Beethoven.”

He studied Orchestral Conducting and Musical Phenomenology under Sergiu Celibidache, as well as taking part in courses in Mainz, Trier, London, Stuttgart, Paris and Munich, the latter with the Munich Philharmonic. He has conducted major orchestras in Germany, Spain, Italy, Rumania, Greece, Russia, the U.S. and Argentina, and has been conductor of the Münchner Camerata, the Greek Symphony Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica del Valles. He has been a member of the jury of various international competitions (Mitropoulos, Tarrega). He has taught extensively in Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Norway and Argentina, in particular, and since 2003 he has held the post of professor of conducting at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya. He is currently conductor of Orquesta Sinfónica Segle XXI and the Bruckner Akademie Orchester in Munich, with whom he is conducting Bruckner’s complete symphonic works

More info on the Celibidache-approach: http://www.musikk-kultur.no/nyesider/artikkel_1.asp?id=717 ,  http://www.musikk-kultur.no/nyesider/artikkel_1.asp?id=717 If you do not understand Spanish, you may listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTNeKtdSE8A. In Spanish:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTNeKtdSE8A