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Lara Downes

U of O School of Music: Lara Downes Virtual Residency: Piano Master Class and Discussion “Music by Female BIPOC Composers”

May 21, 2021 @ 10:00 am

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These workshops will be the culminating events involving students from the MUE 473/573 Piano Pedagogy class and teachers from the Eugene chapter of the Oregon Music Teachers Association (OMTA). In advance of the events, UO piano students and local Eugene piano students will learn pieces by black female composers including Florence Price and Margaret Bonds. The master class will feature students performing the works for Ms. Downes, who will teach a class on how to perform and teach this music. This project will help UO piano pedagogy students and OMTA teachers to learn more about music written by these composers, how to discover more BIPOC music for teaching, and encourage inclusion of these composers in the teaching repertoire. 

This event will also utilize the Yamaha Disklavier, an acoustic player piano that can reproduce every nuance of a performance and stream it remotely. As a Yamaha artist, Ms. Downes will teach the master class remotely from a Yamaha Disklavier at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and participating students will perform from a corresponding Yamaha Disklavier at the UO School of Music and Dance.

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U of O School of Music: Lara Downes Virtual Residency: Piano Master Class and Discussion “Music by Female BIPOC Composers”

May 19, 2021 @ 10:00 am

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These workshops will be the culminating events involving students from the MUE 473/573 Piano Pedagogy class and teachers from the Eugene chapter of the Oregon Music Teachers Association (OMTA). In advance of the events, UO piano students and local Eugene piano students will learn pieces by black female composers including Florence Price and Margaret Bonds. The master class will feature students performing the works for Ms. Downes, who will teach a class on how to perform and teach this music. This project will help UO piano pedagogy students and OMTA teachers to learn more about music written by these composers, how to discover more BIPOC music for teaching, and encourage inclusion of these composers in the teaching repertoire. 

This event will also utilize the Yamaha Disklavier, an acoustic player piano that can reproduce every nuance of a performance and stream it remotely. As a Yamaha artist, Ms. Downes will teach the master class remotely from a Yamaha Disklavier at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and participating students will perform from a corresponding Yamaha Disklavier at the UO School of Music and Dance.

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U of O School of Music: Lara Downes Virtual Residency: Concert Preview Webinar “Holes in the Sky”

May 7, 2021 @ 7:30 pm

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As part of OBF’s virtual 2021 season, Ms. Downes will be presenting a virtual concert event, “Holes in the Sky,” a project that celebrates the power of female creativity and the women who inspire her to make holes in the sky. The concert will feature newly discovered works by Florence Price, new works from Julia Adolphe, Clarice Assad, Angelica Negron, Paola Prestini, Elena Ruehr, Marika Takeuchi and others, as well as original arrangements of iconic songs by Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln, Joni Mitchell, and Nina Simone. This webinar will be a lecture-recital presentation to illuminate the stories behind the music.

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U of O School of Music: Lara Downes Virtual Residency: THEME series – Uncovering Lost Treasures

April 23, 2021 @ 2:00 pm

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THEME (which stands for theory, history, ethnomusicology, music education) is a colloquium series for SOMD’s academic music students. The series includes professional development workshops as well as featured speakers from these academic fields. In this session, Ms. Downes will speak about her experience uncovering a set of previously undiscovered music by composer Florence Price, and her collaboration with musicologist J. Michael Cooper (Southwestern University) and other musicologists.

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