VISI Faculty: Richard Kurth
Richard
Kurth is Associate Professor of Music Theory at UBC, with a background
in performance (M.Mus. Oboe). He regularly teaches advanced courses and
seminars on how analysis can inform performance, and on the relationships
between music and poetry in art song. His sessions during VISI will combine
lecture and group discussion and will examine selected songs, exploring
sounds and meanings in the poetry, sounds and meanings in the music,
and how these two networks interact to create distinct and powerful artworks.
Special attention will be given to performers’ expressive choices and
strategies: how singer and pianist can coordinate their own interplay
of these interacting dimensions to shape the meaning and the expressive
force of the song.