Objections to Objects: Locating “the work” in Live Art and Music

Clare Foster (University of Cambridge)

Professor Daniel Leech-Wilkinson (Professor of Music, King’s College London)

Chair: Professor John Rink (Professor of Musical Performance Studies, University of Cambridge)

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Prof Leech-Wilkinson. By asking the question who needs musical works, Leech-Wilkinson uncovers some of the political and commercial pressures which have led to classical music being narrowly taught, practised and understood. Leech-Wilkinson studied at the Royal College of Music, King's College London and Clare College, Cambridge, becoming first a medievalist and then, since c. 2000, specialising in the implications of early recordings for the study of music. His current work deals with the restrictive nature of beliefs about musical history and ethics on musicians' interpretative options. See The Changing Sound of Music, and 'Compositions, Scores, Performances, Meanings' (Music Theory Online), both freely available online. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/music/people/acad/leechwilkinson/index.aspx

Professor Rink directs the £2.1 million AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice, which is based at the University of Cambridge in partnership with King’s College London, the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London, and in association with the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.