Complete 2025 Festival Schedule

Berwick Hall
University of Oregon

All events (with the exception of the Nicholas Phan and Myra Huang recital on Saturday evening at 8pm) are free and open to the public.

Thursday, January 23

Song recital featuring University of Oregon and University of Washington students (6:00pm)

Friday, January 24

Registration (9:00am–9:30am)
Welcome and opening remarks (9:30am–9:45am)

Women’s Voices I (10:00am–12:00pm)
Session chair: Drew Nobile (University of Oregon)

Lori Burns (University of Ottawa) and Patrick Armstrong (University of Ottawa)
Claiming Song Space: Female Vocalists in Gothic/Doom Metal

Agnes Voijtko (Eugene, Oregon) and Dana Zenobi (Butler University)
Margaret Bonds Sets Edna St. Vincent Millay: Six Powerful Additions to the Art Song Repertoire 

Madison Stepherson (University of Oregon)
Constructing Femininity through Song: Miranda Lambert’s “Relatable Rebel” Persona

Lunch break (11:30am–1:30pm)

Issues in Song Performance (1:30pm–3:00pm)
Session chair: Abigail Fine (University of Oregon)

Kendra Preston Leonard (Houston, Texas)
Negotiating Trauma in New Art Song

Elizabeth Pearse (Winona State University)
From the Piano: A Brief Survey of Self-Accompanied Singing

Heather Platt (Ball State University)
Singing Diverse American Songs During the “Progressive Era”

Coffee break (3:00pm–3:30pm)

Masterclass, Nicholas Phan (3:30pm–5:30pm)

Dinner break (5:30pm–7:30pm)

Keynote address, Natasha Loges (7:30pm)
Words Fail Me: Reflections on the Legacy of Pauline Viardot

Saturday, January 25

Underexplored Genres (10:00am–12:00pm)
Session chair: Eric Mentzel (University of Oregon)

Michael Womack (Southern Arkansas University)
The Musical Theater Song Cycle

Raoul Manuel Palm (Bielefeld University)
Parody Song: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery in France, 1794

Matt BaileyShea (University of Rochester/Eastman School of Music)
Troubled Sleep: The Dark Side of Lullabies in Rock, Broadway, and Beyond

Paula Alva Garcia (University of Oregon)
“The Town Cries”: Rosa Mercedes’s Antiguos Pregones de Lima and Peruvian Cultural Identity

Lunch break (12:00pm–1:30pm)

Song and Language (1:30pm–3:00pm)
Session chair: Lori Kruckenberg (University of Oregon)

Sarah Agou (University of Oregon)
Singing for Language Revalorization: Collaborations by Indigenous Authors in Quebec

Christopher Parton (Princeton University)
Song Translation as Prosthesis: Singing Goethe in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Xiaoming Tian (City University of New York)
Beyond Pronunciation: Exploring the Intertwined World of Intonation Contour and Melody in Chinese-American Art Songs

Coffee break (3:00pm–3:30pm)

New Analytical Approaches (3:30pm–5:30pm)
Session chair: Stephen Rumph (University of Washington)

Note: this session will take place in the Parish Hall of Central Lutheran Church (1857 Potter St.), while Nicholas Phan and Myra Huang rehearse in Berwick Hall. The church is on the corner of 18th Ave. and Potter St., across the street from Berwick Hall. To find the Parish Hall, enter the double glass doors on Potter St., and follow the signs (walk down the brick breezeway, and then turn right).

Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers (University of Ottawa)
Voice Leading as Text Expression in Clara Schumann’s Lieder

Elizabeth Hepach (University of Oxford)
Hugo Wolf’s Use of Motivic Gestures to Create Structure within and Connections between Selected Songs of his Mörike-Lieder

Stephen Rodgers (University of Oregon)
Texture as Form in Lili Boulanger’s Clairières dans le ciel

Kaitlyn Clawson-Cannestra (University of Oregon)
Florence Price’s Epic Endings

Catered dinner for festival participants (5:30–8:00pm)

Fellow Citizens

featured recital with Nicholas Phan and Myra Huang (8:00pm)

The recital, examining narratives of migration, features songs by Irving Berlin, Rebecca Clarke, Jake Heggie, Franz Schubert, Florence Price, Errollyn Wallen, and Robert Owens, among others.

General admission $10
UO students with ID FREE
Tickets can be purchased online or in person at the event.

Sunday, January 26

Women’s Voices II (10:00am–11:30am)
Session chair: Carrie Shaw (University of Washington)

Laura Loge (Seattle, Washington)
Der Skreg en Fugl: Exploring Unsung Norwegian Women

Jonathan Spatola-Knoll (Whitman College)
The Songs of Elfrida Andrée (1841–1929): Music like “Those Little Ladies’ or for ‘Admirable Musicians”?

Kamilla Arku (New York University)
Dancing Barefoot in the Rain: Women in African Art Song

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