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Let's Talk ClarityHow to become an effective leader : Clarity Talk with Nikhil Juneja, Executive CoachHow to become an effective leader: Clarity Talk with Nikhil Juneja, Executive CoachNikhil Juneja is the Founder & CEO of Here & Now, a training & coaching company based in Delhi for the last 10+ years. He is an Executive Coach, Leadership and Systemic Team Coach | Group Process Facilitator | Design Thinking Enthusiast | and Advance Hogan Practioner. Nikhil is passionate about Leadership and its different styles, which are used in corporates. He is a strong believer in the fact that "A leader can impact so many lives and hence he should impact them positively & holistically. Nikhil stresses...
2024-07-0953 min
Nikhil Hogan Show182: Giovanna Barbati (Partimento and Improvisation on the Cello) Today I speak to cellist and viola da gamba player Giovanna Barbati, whose repertoire extends from early to contemporary music and who has a special interest in improvisation. She appears frequently as a soloist, she plays her own music and has given the first performance of a number of works for solo cello. She has recently recorded the complete works for cello by Francesco Supriani (Da Vinci CD) with the ensemble Les amies Partimentistes. We discuss improvisation upon a ground, Francesco Supriani's diminution technique works, partimento and the cello, music theory/composition, and more!
2024-06-031h 41Nikhil Hogan Show144: Sietze de Vries (Classical Improviser, Organist)Professor Sietze de Vries, famed for his mastery in classical improvisation, joins the show to talk about his education, training, approach to music, music education, and demonstrates classical improvisation in multiple styles, and time periods.
2024-05-171h 37Nikhil Hogan Show158: Nicholas Baragwanath (Hexachordal Italian Solfeggio)Professor Nicholas Baragwanath, author of the groundbreaking "Solfeggio Tradition" (published by Oxford University Press), returns to the show to talk about Hexachordal Italian Solfeggio. This was the method of solfege instruction that was employed at the famed 18th-century Neapolitan Conservatories, using 6-note overlapping hexachords, instead of the usual 7-note systems we use today. Professor Baragwanath answers popular questions and demonstrates solfeggio in numerous settings, from beginner lessons to more advanced examples.
2024-05-171h 09Nikhil Hogan Show157: Ewald Demeyere (Fedele Fenaroli's Partimenti and Pedagogy)Professor Ewald Demeyere returns on the show to discuss his critical edition of Fenaroli's partimenti collection and discusses Fenaroli's approach to pedagogy and partimento realization.
2024-04-011h 59Nikhil Hogan Show154: Partimento Panel (Gjerdingen, Sanguinetti, van Tour, Cafiero)In this episode, I am joined by eminent professors Robert O. Gjerdingen, Giorgio Sanguinetti, Peter van Tour, and Rosa Cafiero, in a special panel session about the subject of partimento. We discuss the history of its modern research, the definition of partimento, why partimento died out, the problem with modern harmony instruction in conservatories today, the practical applicability of partimento in modern times, the future of partimento, and more.
2024-03-011h 32Nikhil Hogan Show174: Niels Berentsen (1300-1500 Polyphony | Improvising Vocal Counterpoint) I talk to Professor Niels Berentsen about the beginnings of improvised counterpoint, the reconstruction of incomplete music by Johannes Ciconia, computational analysis of counterpoint, teaching 15th/16th century canon, improvisation in the classroom at the Haute école de musique, the long history of improvisation models, and more. Niels has taught the theory and performance of medieval and Renaissance music at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague since 2011. He received his PhD from Leiden University in 2016. Since 2018 he is professor of improvised counterpoint at the Haute École de Musique de Genève (Switzerland). As a researcher, Niels has investigated techniques of poly...
2024-02-011h 19Nikhil Hogan Show167: Solfeggio Panel (Baragwanath, Gjerdingen, IJzerman, van Tour)Today we have a special episode dedicated to Solfeggio, featuring Professors Nicholas Baragwanath, Job IJzerman, Robert O. Gjerdingen, and Peter van Tour. The famed students of the 18th-century Neapolitan conservatories undertook an extensive 3-year course of hexachordal solmisation using guidonian syllables before they were allowed to touch an instrument. This excellent training preceded partimento and written counterpoint studies. We discuss all aspects of this pedagogy, whether it is worth learning today, its benefits, and answer numerous audience questions.
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School Reading ListEpisode 17 - Why school libraries are so importantSchool Reading List podcast hosted by Tom TolkienSeason 1: Episode 17For transcripts, resources, show notes and contact details, see https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/podcasts/series-1-episode-17/Part 1Book postMeet the Wildlings by Gwen MillwardThe Best You by Nima PatelI Love You to the Moon and Back: All Year Long by Amelia HepworthNikhil and Jay by Chitra SoundarThe Shape of Rainbows by Neal ZetterDiamond Jack: Your Magic Or Your Life by Anna RainbowThe Floating Witch Mystery by Nicki ThorntonWinner Takes Gold by Eloise SmithBeastlands: Race...
2024-02-0139 minNikhil Hogan Show177: Robert O. Gjerdingen (Music Schema Theory)I'm delighted to share this interview recorded yesterday with the great Professor Robert O. Gjerdingen, focusing greatly on Music Schema Theory as revealed in his groundbreaking 2007 monograph "Music in the Galant Style". In addition, we discuss Roman Numeral Analysis, Harmonic Function Theory, Hugo Riemann, Tonality, Dahlhaus, and Schenker, and he answers numerous audience questions, enjoy!
2024-01-012h 06Nikhil Hogan Show156: Peter Schubert (Palestrina, Fux, Counterpoint)0:00 Intro 0:36 Start 1:59 St. Pius X's Motu Proprio "Tra Le Sollecitudini" 5:16 How did the Council of Trent affect Gregorian chant? 5:54 What do you think of Organum and composers like Léonin and Pérotin? 6:45 Johann Joseph Fux 14:53 Knud Jeppesen 26:54 Did Palestrina improvise or play the organ? 28:39 Bach played on the accordion 30:36 The Lute 31:44 Exultate iusti by Viadana, sung by the Sistine Chapel in 1925 36:34 Historically Informed Performance Practice 39:33 Has improvised counterpoint pedagogy become more prevalent in today's un...
2023-12-2456 minNikhil Hogan Show141: Job IJzerman (Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento)0:00 Intro 0:36 Start 1:29 Refinements in approach to teaching with "Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento" since last interview 6:21 Understanding the patterns in the book as "pure sounds" 9:59 Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K. 82 10:25 Thinking of cadences as schema and things that are polyphonic rather than modern terminology like PAC or IAC 16:58 Joseph Haydn: "Surprise" Symphony No. 94 18:41 Thinking of 3-part harmony as complete instead of 4-part harmony missing a voice? 26:52 Antonio Vivaldi: La Primavera 39:32 Where do you typically take your musical examples from in the book? 41:08...
2023-12-211h 42Nikhil Hogan Show140: Wim Winters (Whole Beat Metronome Principle)0:00 Intro 0:36 Start 1:26 When did you start your YouTube channel, and when did you shift from recording performances to research into Whole Beat? 6:22 Which composers used the clavichord? 9:01 Did playing the Clavichord change the way you played Organ? 11:06 What is the Clavichord's touch like? 12:55 Piano vs Clavichord 18:21 What if we had to reconstruct jazz without having access to any sound recordings but rely only on written transcriptions 30:21 Weren't there musical mechanical clocks during Haydn's time that captured authentic 18th-century musical performance practice? 34:22...
2023-08-011h 50Nikhil Hogan Show139: Peter SeivewrightPETER SEIVEWRIGHT has received a Special Judges’ Citation in The American Prize Ernst Bacon Award for the Performance of American Music competition, in the professional solo artist division. Peter Seivewright, honored for “Championing American Piano Music,” was selected from applications reviewed recently from all across the United States and the United Kingdom, and the citation awarded for his Divine Art album ‘American Piano Sonatas‘. Peter Seivewright has performed extensively as a recitalist and as Piano Concerto soloist with leading professional Orchestras throughout Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Austria, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Denmark (eight recital tours), Latvia, Estonia, Malaysia, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Vietnam, K...
2023-07-052h 11Nikhil Hogan Show138: Nicholas Baragwanath0:00 Start 1:34 How has the book, "The Solfeggio Tradition", been received? 6:43 Italian solfeggio explained in 4 minutes 11:41 Should children delay singing solfeggio until their voice has broken? 14:15 Did 18th-century plainsong sound more like galant music rather than medieval music? 16:10 What about Palestrina? 19:35 An example of a lesson in Italian solfeggio 22:33 How do you learn to accompany a melody line by sight with the correct harmony? 28:00 How do you follow the rules of counterpoint when switching between hexachords? 32:33 How do you know when there is a change of syllable vs a continuation of a melisma...
2022-06-201h 31Nikhil Hogan Show137: Derek Remes0:00 Intro 0:36 Start 1:58 What made you want to analyze Bach's 48 preludes? 4:26 Every prelude in the book has been transposed to C or Am 6:22 Is there one perfect analysis of Bach's compositions? 8:30 "The Walled Park of Closely Related Keys" 12:11 Would Bach go from C major directly to E minor? 12:42 Bach's use of closely related keys in the preludes 14:35 Looking at an example from the book 17:23 Talking about the nature of modulations in the 18th-century 22:02 Is Bach a galant musician, old school, or a...
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Let's Talk ClarityClarity Talk with Nikhil Juneja - EP30This is special episode when I am talking to one of my mentor, coach, friend, morning breakfast partner, Nikhil Juneja - he is an Executive Coach, Systemic Coach, Hogan Strength Coach, Trainer, Leadership Coach who is running his own company Here & Now to help leaders to become better at it, he is having an amazing voice, amazing clarity, calm & soothing personality, every time I met him, I always learned a ton of wisdom, knowledge & important concept to take the pause. He has seen many careers during the last 18 years from family business, to corporate job, corporate trainer, t...
2022-03-2652 minNikhil Hogan Show136: Peter SchubertProfessor Peter Schubert from McGill University returns to the show to discuss the republication of a new edition of his book, "Baroque Counterpoint."
2021-12-141h 24Nikhil Hogan Show134: Robert Gjerdingen and Giorgio SanguinettiI’m very excited to welcome two very special guests to the program, Professor Robert Gjerdingen and Professor Giorgio Sanguinetti. Professor Gjerdingen is the author of Music in the Galant Style and Child Composers, while Professor Sanguinetti is the author of The Art of Partimento”. They join me today for a group table discussion on partimento, music education, music history, and much more.
2021-09-241h 37Nikhil Hogan Show133: Patrick AyrtonMy guest today is conductor, harpsichordist, and organist, Professor Patrick Ayrton. He currently teaches thoroughbass, chamber music, and improvisation at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague.
2021-09-091h 54Nikhil Hogan Show132: Jonathan SalamonHarpsichordist and Composer, Jonathan Salamon, joins the show to discuss his article on the Leo Schema.
2021-08-301h 34Nikhil Hogan Show131: Johannes MenkeProfessor Johannes Menke joins the podcast to discuss the French Baroque Style, Satzmodelle in 17th-century French music, and more.
2021-08-301h 30Nikhil Hogan Show129: Nicole DiPaoloI’m very happy to introduce my guest today, Pianist, Composer, Teacher, and Music Scholar, Nicole DiPaolo! She is an online Adjunct Lecturer in Music at Indiana University, a faculty member at a Cleveland-area multi-teacher music studio, the Principal Theory Teacher at Liberty Park Music, an online-only video subscription-based music school, and a sought-after online instructor of piano, music theory, and composition.
2021-06-111h 01Nikhil Hogan Show128: Adem Merter BirsonMy guest today is Musicologist and Music Theorist, Professor Adem Merter Birson! He is an adjunct assistant professor of music at Hofstra University. His primary research deals with the relationship between chromaticism and form in the string quartets of Joseph Haydn. We will talk about Haydn, partimento, sonata form and even get a little into some classical Turkish music.
2021-05-291h 26Nikhil Hogan Show126: Robert GjerdingenI have the huge honor to welcome back to the program, the esteemed Professor Robert Gjerdingen, he is the author of the groundbreaking 2007 “Music in the Galant Style” which won the Wallace Berry award from the Society of Music Theory in 2009. He followed up that book with the excellent 2020 book “Child Composers in the Old Conservatories” and he frequently updates the great website partimenti.org which if you are interested in partimento, need to have that website bookmarked because it has a ton of great material and is constantly being updated.
2021-05-121h 28Nikhil Hogan Show125: Riccardo CastagnettiI’m so happy to introduce my guest today, Musicologist and musician, Riccardo Castagnetti. We are going to be talking about his research in 18th-century music education pedagogy, focusing on the methods of Andrea Basili.
2021-04-301h 03Nikhil Hogan Show124: Massimiliano GuidoI’m delighted to introduce my guest today, Professor Massimiliano Guido, he is an expert in the fields of historical performance practice and improvisation. He is the editor of the book "Studies in Historical Improvisation: From Cantare Super Librum to Partimento" and he is going to talk to me today about a wide range of topics including counterpoint, partimento, music theory, music history, and much more! 0:43 What is your background? 2:46 Did you improvise at the beginning? 6:06 Did you learn any theory on the way to being a performer? 7:36 When did you switch to more hi...
2021-04-291h 31Nikhil Hogan Show122: Nicola PignatielloI’m very thrilled to speak to my guest today, guitarist, Nicola Pignatiello. He teaches at the Liceo Giordano Bruno in Rome and also at CESMI. This is the episode that all my guitarist audience members have been waiting for, and we will be diving deep into the topic of partimento on the guitar. He has recorded some really beautiful partimento realizations on the guitar that have received very positive responses from the partimento community and we will talk further about realizing partimenti on the guitar. 0:46 Background 1:41 Did you start with Classical Guitar? 2:07 Joining the conservatory at 15 3:08 Wh...
2021-03-291h 30Nikhil Hogan Show119: Noam SivanMy guest today is Pianist, Improviser, and Composer, Professor Noam Sivan! He is Professor of Piano Improvisation at the HMDK Stuttgart, and we will talk about his remarkable journey, his method to his improvisational craft, his new exciting Master’s degree programme in classical piano improvisation that he has created, and much more! 0:35 What’s your musical background? 1:21 Did you naturally improvise as a child? 1:56 Mother’s influence on creativity 3:25 Tell me about your formal music training in university 4:10 The influence of formal composition study in your undergraduate studies 6:16 Examples of apply a comp...
2021-03-081h 36Nikhil Hogan Show118: Gaetano StellaMy guest today is Music Scholar and Pianist, Professor Gaetano Stella! An expert on the subject of partimento, particularly partimento in the 19th century. We talk about the partimento tradition in the 19th century and his methods for teaching partimento in the classroom today.
2021-03-011h 37Nikhil Hogan Show117: Matteo MessoriWhat an honor to speak with my guest today, Harpsichordist, Organist, Keyboardist, Conductor, Composer and Improviser, Matteo Messori! He is the founder of the Cappella Augustana Ensemble and His latest recording is the complete harpsichord and organ works by Johann Kaspar Kerll, a new 3CD Box. We discuss the Bologna tradition, basso continuo, partimento, Padre Martini and Mattei, counterpoint, his partimento teaching method and much more!
2021-02-221h 42Nikhil Hogan Show116: Nicola CanzanoI’m so pleased to introduce my guest today, composer, improviser, harpsichordist, and organist Nicola Canzano! He is the composer of his “First Book of Partimenti: Preludes, Fugues, Rondeaus, and Puzzles, Twenty Four in total through all key signatures”. He is also the founder of the upcoming NEw York and Montreal based group Nuova Practica, which focuses on composing and improvising in baroque and early adjacent music.
2021-02-171h 14Nikhil Hogan Show115: Bill ContiI am very thrilled to speak with my guest today, Academy and Emmy Award winning Film Composer and Conductor, Bill Conti! He is best known for his film scores including Rocky, The Karate Kid, For Your Eyes Only, Dynasty and the Right Stuff which earned him an Academy Award for Best Original Score. He was music director at the Academy Awards a record nineteen times. It was announced in June 2020 that Conti had donated his original scores to Louisiana State University.
2021-01-3138 minNikhil Hogan Show115: Job IJzermanMy guest today is Professor Job IJzerman! He teaches at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He is known for his popular book, “Harmony, Counterpoint, Partimento” Published by Oxford University Press in 2018. 0:38 Background 1:50 Did you improvise or compose growing up? 2:12 Did you have any experience with thoroughbass or basso continuo? 2:36 Two anecdotes that highlighted the need for harmony pedagogy reform at the conservatory for IJzerman 7:07 Being introduced to Robert Gjerdingen’s work and partimento in 2007 9:09 What steps did you take to put the partimento theory into practice 10:31 Can Partimento be applied to other styles...
2021-01-251h 22Nikhil Hogan Show113: Thomas ChristensenI am so honored to be speaking to a great guest today, Professor Thomas Christensen. Professor Christensen is the Avalon Foundation Professor of Music and Humanities at the University of Chicago. His scholarly research focuses on the history of music theory and his most recent book is “Tonality in the Age of François-Joseph Fetis” published by the University of Chicago Press in 2019. 0:39 What’s your background? 1:41 What was the state of research in the history of music theory when you began? 2:52 How did you come to focus on Thoroughbass in your research? 4:30 What was the...
2021-01-181h 11Nikhil Hogan Show112: Giorgio SanguinettiIt’s a huge honor to have the great Professor Giorgio Sanguinetti return to the program for his 2nd appearance. He is the author of the award-winning book “The Art of Partimento” which was published in 2012 which won the Wallace Berry Award from the Society of Music Theory and today we will talk his new book “Le Sonate per pianoforte di Beethoven. Genere, forma, espressione” published by Libreria Musicale Italiana. 0:51 Why did you pick the subject of the piano sonatas of Beethoven for this book? 2:26 Did you play many of the piano sonatas yourself over your career?
2020-12-311h 22Nikhil Hogan Show111: L. Poundie BursteinI am extremely thrilled to introduce my guest today, Professor of Music L. Poundie Burstein. He is a Professor at Hunter College College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and he is here today to talk to me about his excellent new book which has been getting rave reviews, “Journeys Through Galant Expositions”. 0:40 Background 6:38 Why was Form not a big area of interest in the 1st half of the 18 century? 7:50 When did the shift happen towards an interest in Form in history? 9:21 Do discussions of Form refer to all type...
2020-12-181h 04Nikhil Hogan Show110: Bruce BroughtonI’m extremely pleased to introduce my guest today, Emmy Award Winning TV and Film Composer, Bruce Broughton. He is the composer for films such as Silverado, Tombstone, The Rescuers Down Under, and written memorable TV themes including The Orville, JAG, Spielberg’s Tiny Toon adventures and Dinosaurs. He has been nominated 24 times for the Emmy and has won a record 10 times. His score to the movie Silverado was nominated for an Academy Award and his score to Young Sherlock Holmes was nominated for a Grammy.
2020-12-031h 10Nikhil Hogan Show109: Enrico BaianoMy guest today is Harpsichordist and Fortepianist Professor Enrico Baiano. An award-winning international performer, Baiano has extensively recorded works by JS Bach, Johann Jakob Froberger, and Domenico Scarlatti to name a few. He has published a method for the Harpsichord in 2010 and with Marco Moiraghi, published a book called “The sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti” in 2014. 00:48 Beginnings 2:25 When did you start playing keyboard instruments? 2:53 What made you decide to make music your career? 3:41 Did you get a teacher to learn the harpsichord? 6:57 How long did you study the harpsichord at the beginning?
2020-11-231h 25Nikhil Hogan Show108: Cyprien KatsarisMy guest today is the famed virtuoso concert pianist and composer, Cyprien Katsaris. One of the most renowned concert pianists of both the 20th and 21st centuries, Katsaris has performed with the world’s greatest orchestras and recorded extensively over his storied career. We talk about his transcriptions, compositions, playing the Cziffra Flight of Bumblee live in front of Cziffra on TV, being told by the world's most powerful classical music agent not to play transcriptions, his famed sightreading prowess, and much more! 0:41 Did you always improvise, even when you were young? 2:32 Are you saying anyone ca...
2020-11-011h 07Nikhil Hogan Show106: Philipp Teriete It’s my pleasure to introduce my guest today, pianist, composer, educator, and researcher, Philipp Teriete. Today we will explore the improvisation and partimento in the 19th century, the great French music teacher Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman, Frederic Chopin's music education, the influence of German music theory in early ragtime and jazz composers and so much more! 0:38 What is your background and how did you come to your present areas of research? 4:40 Who was Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmerman? 5:55 Did he have any famous pupils? 7:27 What was Zimmerman’s training? 9:17 Was he a victim of the cult of genius? 10:41 Was...
2020-10-191h 18Nikhil Hogan Show104: Rami Bar-NivMy guest today is Concert Pianist, Composer, and Music Educator Rami Bar-Niv. Rami Bar-Niv made history by being the first, and so far the only, Israeli artist to perform in Egypt following the Begin/Sadat Peace Treaty. Praised as “Effective and Flamboyant” by the New York Times and “An Original major talent” by the Boston Globe, Bar-Niv is an international concert performer who has written two books, the first is the “Art of Piano Fingering” and the second his autobiography “Blood, Sweat, and Tours: Notes from the Diary of a Concert Pianist”. 0:55 Playing by ear, Improvising, and composing from a...
2020-09-2852 minNikhil Hogan Show102: Peter SchubertMy guest today is Professor Peter Schubert. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University and is currently an Associate Professor at the McGill University Faculty of Music. He is the author of the textbook, “Modal Counterpoint: Renaissance Style” (Oxford University Press, 1999). and with colleague Christoph Neidhoefer he also co-authored “Baroque Counterpoint” (Prentice-Hall, 2005). He is known for teaching improvised vocal counterpoint in his classes.
2020-08-051h 04Nikhil Hogan Show101: David MesquitaMy Guest today is Professor David Mesquita, he teaches ear training, sightsinging, Historical satzlehre Renaissance through to the Romantic at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. His research focuses on Spanish Music and music theory, as well as improvised counterpoint. 0:30 What is your background? 1:31 On learning both Fixed Do and Moveable Do growing up at the same time 2:19 Do you have Absolute or Perfect Pitch? 2:49 What repertoire did you use when studying solfege? 4:05 Students who have to solmize but were raised on Fixed Do? 4:32 Can you comment on the Kodaly method? 5:20 What do...
2020-07-271h 06Nikhil Hogan Show100: Derek RemešMy guest today is Music Theorist, Organist and Composer, Derek Remeš. He is known for his research into the pedagogy behind Johann Sebastian’s Bach method of composition and improvisation. He also is the admin for Facebook group that he started,”Composition and Improvisation in J.S. Bach’s Germany”. ----- 0:36 What is your musical background? 2:37 Has anyone in Bach research looked at his craft of improvisation? 4:47 Do all organists have to improvise? 5:47 Did you have a background in improvisation before learning the organ? 6:45 The terminology of thoroughbass 7:49 Would Bach have used...
2020-07-201h 06Nikhil Hogan Show99: Rosa CafieroWhat a great thrill to be joined by a very special guest, Professor Rosa Cafiero of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, the department of History, Archaeology and Art History. She is here to talk about her latest book La didattica del partimento (a collection of nine essays, revisited and adjourned for the digital era). She is one of the great, early pioneers of Partimento research! ----- 0:55 The word for department in Italian is dipartimento 1:23 On being a graduate of the San Pietro a Majella, Naples 1:56 Was the training there similar to the 18t...
2020-07-1358 minNikhil Hogan Show98: Mark FerragutoMy guest today is Professor Mark Ferraguto, he is an Associate Professor of Musicology at Penn State University. He will talk to us about his very interesting book “Beethoven 1806”, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. 0:30 Can you describe your musical background? 1:36 What were the things that bothered you about the way Beethoven was discussed? 3:08 Was Beethoven himself to blame for this because of the way he marketed himself? 4:27 The bust of Beethoven in a Liszt painting 4:53 Beethoven anecdote arguing with a violinist 5:36 How did you come to choosing 1806 for research?
2020-07-0656 minNikhil Hogan Show97: Ludwig HoltmeierMy guest today is the great Professor Ludwig Holtmeier, who is a music theorist, musicologist, pianist and the president of the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg! ----- 0:23 What’s your musical background? 3:37 Did you have a typical classical training or did you ever improvise as a young musician? 4:18 Do you have perfect or absolute pitch? 4:29 Did you learn music theory and counterpoint as a young musician? 4:59 Moving to Freiburg 7:37 When did you discover partimento? 10:10 How did you break away from Riemannian theory? 12:36 How did you find these older met...
2020-06-291h 05Nikhil Hogan Show96: Elam RotemI’m so pleased to introduce my guest today, a real expert on early music, Harpsichordist, composer and singer, Dr. Elam Rotem. In 2014, Rotem established the award winning resources website Early Music Sources. In 2016, he finished his PhD thesis with distinction ("Early Basso Continuo Practice: Implicit Evidence in the Music of Emilio de’ Cavalieri"), within a new collaborative program between the Schola Cantorum in Basel and the University of Würzburg, Germany. He is the founder and director of Profeti della Quinta. His most recent composition is the Lamentations of David, available on YouTube. 0:58 What was mu...
2020-06-2245 minNikhil Hogan Show95: John MortensenMy guest today is Professor John Mortensen, a leading performer, scholar and teacher in classical or historic improvisation, Steinway Artist, Fulbright Scholar, and is a professor of Music at Cedarville University. His new book is “The Pianist’s guide to Historic Improvisation”, published by Oxford University Press. Kate Boyd, Professor of Music at Butler University reviewed the book by saying, "This book fills an important niche in the world of piano and keyboard pedagogy. In each of the chapters Mortensen encourages the reader's creativity, simultaneously exposing the musical building blocks used by some of the...
2020-06-141h 01Nikhil Hogan Show94: Tibor SzászSo privileged to introduced my guest today one of the greats, pianist, musicologist and educator Professor Tibor Szasz. He has given over 1000 solo, concerto, and chamber music performances all over the world. His recordings of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Bartók have been issued in the United States and Germany. Tibor Szász holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance from the University of Michigan, and is a Tenured professor of piano at the Hoshschule fur Music Freiburg in Germany. ----- 0:48 How old were you when you st...
2020-06-081h 12Nikhil Hogan Show93: Daniel SpreadburyWe’re joined today by a great guest, Dorico Product Marketing Manager Daniel Spreadbury, to talk about the new release of Dorico, version 3.5 and the new Figured Bass feature. ------- 0:22 The new feature: figured bass in Dorico 3.5 1:05 How is Dorico figured bass different in implementation compared to Sibelius, Finale, and other notation software? 4:38 On the greatness of the letter G being reserved for figured bass 6:14 Was figured bass a feature that was greatly requested? 9:30 F.T. Arnold as a reference for research for the Dorico team 9:46 Will the smart figured ba...
2020-06-0321 minNikhil Hogan Show92: Nicoleta ParaschivescuI’m thrilled to introduce my guest today, Harpischordist and Organist Professor Nicoleta Paraschivescu! She teaches the organ at the Academy of Music in Basel (AMS) and is organist at the church of St. Theodor in Basel. In 2015 she received her PhD from the University of Leiden for her doctoral dissertation about Giovanni Paisiello’s Partimenti. She was awarded the hibou-Stiftung Prize in 2016 in recognition of her outstanding research on partimenti. She is an expert in partimento realization and has contributed to partimento research. Her latest album is Partimenti napolitani, featuring her realizations of the partimenti of Paisi...
2020-06-0159 minNikhil Hogan Show90: Robert GjerdingenReturning to the program is Professor Robert Gjerdingen, Professor Emeritus of Music at Northwestern University’s School of Music. He is well known for his research in Music Schemata Theory, Partimento and is an expert in music of the 18th century. His previous book was the influential 2007 book “Music in the Galant Style” and he has a new book out entitled,”Child Composers in the Old Conservatories: How Orphans Became Elite Musicians”. He is also very actively updating his new website partimenti.org ----- 0:48 How did you come to write Child Composers? 2:43 Do you sti...
2020-05-1951 minNikhil Hogan Show89: Ewald DemeyereI’m so pleased to introduce my guest today Harpsichordist, Improviser and Conductor, Professor Ewald Demeyere. Professor Demeyere studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp obtaining his master’s degree for harpsichord in Jos van Immerseel’s class. On completion of his studies in 1997 he was engaged as a teacher of harmony, counterpoint and fugue by the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. In 2002 he succeeded Jos van Immerseel as Professor of Harpsichord and he is also a professor at IMEP in Belgium. A specialist in Early Music, Partimento and counterpoint, he was the winner of the CPE Bach Coun...
2020-04-261h 09Nikhil Hogan Show88: John A. RiceHey everyone, welcome to the Nikhil Hogan Show. I’m really excited to introduce my guest today, Professor John A. Rice. Professor Rice studied music history under Daniel Heartz at the University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 1987) he taught at the University of Washington (1987–88), Colby College (1988–90), the University of Houston (1990–97), and the University of Texas at Austin (1999). More recently he has been a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh (2010–11) and the University of Michigan (2012–13). He has received grants from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society. He has written many articles, revi...
2020-04-1845 minNikhil Hogan Show87: Johannes MenkeI’m really happy to introduce my guest today, Professor Johannes Menke. In 2004, he received his doctorate with a thesis on Giacinto Scelsi at the TU Berlin. From 1999-2009 he taught music theory and ear training at the Musikhochschule Freiburg and was also active as a radio author, organist and choirmaster. Since 2007 he has been Professor of Historical Theory at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. From 2008 to 2012 he was President of the Society for Music Theory (GMTH). He is co-editor of the book series Sinefonia (Wolke-Verlag) and the journal Musik & Ästhetik (Klett-Cotta). His numerous publications deal mai...
2020-04-0948 minNikhil Hogan ShowVasili ByrosI’m so thrilled to be able to talk to my guest: Professor of Music Theory and Cognition, Professor Vasili Byros. Professor Byros is a tenured Associate Professor of Music Theory and Cognition at Northwestern University. He researches the compositional, listening, and pedagogical practices of the long 18th century, with an emphasis on the music of Beethoven, J. S. Bach, and Mozart, using a holistic methodology that combines perspectives from schema theory. A prolific scholar, his research articles can be founded in numerous scholarly publications and journals. Examples include, “Thinking in Bach’s language, Teaching in His...
2020-01-1258 minNikhil Hogan ShowHenrik Jensen and David DolanWe have a very special show today, returning to the show the master classical improviser Professor David Dolan, from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Also joining the program is Professor Henrik Jensen, from the Department of Mathematics at the Imperial College of London. He leads the Centre for Complexity Science, which engages in a range of research into the applied and fundamental aspects of complexity science. For today’s show, we’ll be diving into the fascinating collaborative research that my two guests have doing for the last 10 years, involving studying the brain with...
2019-12-3151 minNikhil Hogan ShowLydia CarlisiMy guest today is Professor of Music Theory, Lydia Carlisi. She studied in Rome (Università di Roma 2/Tor Vergata) completing in 2010 a Bachelor Thesis on Leonardo Leo's Partimenti under the direction of Professor Giorgio Sanguinetti. In 2015 she completed a Master in Music Theory in the class of Prof. Dr. Ludwig Holtmeier at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (DE) with a thesis on Gaspare Selvaggi's «Trattato di armonia» (1823). During this time she was awarded a DAAD scholarship. She worked at creating the Neapolitan canon project at the university of the arts Bern and she...
2019-12-111h 01Nikhil Hogan ShowNicholas BaragwanathI'm so pleased to introduce my guest today: Professor of Music Theory and History, Professor Nicholas Baragwanath! His book “The Italian Traditions and Puccini”, a major study of compositional theory and practice in 19th-century Italy, was published in 2011 by Indiana University Press. It surveys the once commonplace fundamentals, methods, and formulas that were taught at Italian music conservatories, and explores their significance for composition through case studies from Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti to Verdi, Boito, and Puccini. His upcoming book, "The Solfeggio Tradition: A Forgotten art of melody in the long 18th century", will be rele...
2019-11-3055 minNikhil Hogan ShowIsaac RazHey everyone welcome back to the Nikhil Hogan Show, the show interviewing the best musicians in the world and what a treat today, I’m so thrilled to introduce my guest, Pianist, Composer, Arranger, and Teacher, Isaac Raz! Isaac Raz holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Composition and Music Synthesis from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, and is a recipient of the Duke Ellington Award. He received his Master of Arts in Teaching degree in Music Education from Lehman College, Bronx, NY, and is a recipient of the Joseph Dellicarri fund award....
2019-11-291h 00Nikhil Hogan ShowWilliam CaplinMy guest today is the great Professor of Music, William Caplin! Caplin specializes in the theories of musical form and musical cadence. His extensive investigations into formal procedures of late-eighteenth-century music culminated in the 1998 book “Classical Form: A Theory of Formal Functions for the Instrumental Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven (Oxford University Press), which won the 1999 Wallace Berry Book Award from the Society for Music Theory. A textbook version, Analyzing Classical Form: An Approach for the Classroom (Oxford University Press), was published in November 2013. In addition to writing many scholarly articles, Caplin served as Pres...
2019-11-1059 minNikhil Hogan ShowDaniel SpreadburyWe have a very special guest here today! Daniel Spreadbury, who is the Dorico Product Marketing Manager is here today to talk about Dorico 3, the latest update to Steinberg’s music notation software program. ----- 1:01 Talking about condensing 3:19 Do you have a grand plan for features? 4:20 What kind of modern technology is being utilized in Dorico? 6:29 How many people work in the Dorico programming team? 8:00 Will the condensing feature be refined in later updates? 9:41 Soundiron’s Olympus Choir Micro integration 11:20 What’s the state of playback? 13:51 How’s the rece...
2019-10-2531 minNikhil Hogan ShowKarst de JongSo happy to introduce my guest today, Classical Pianist, Music Theorist and Improviser, Professor Karst de Jong! Karst de Jong studied classical Piano and Music Theory at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 1991 he was appointed as a professor of music theoretical subjects at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He specialized in piano improvisation and the relation between analysis and interpretation of the piano literature. Since 2003 he has been appointed professor of improvisation and composition-techniques at the ESMUC in Barcelona. He regularly gives concerts with classical and jazz improvisations, both...
2019-10-1959 minNikhil Hogan ShowDavid DolanI’m so happy to introduce my guest today, Concert Pianist, Researcher, and Teacher, Professor David Dolan! In his solo and chamber music performances, he incorporates improvisation into the relevant concert repertoire in repeats, cadenzas, as well as in preludes, fantasias, and improvises on themes provided by the audience. In addition to performing worldwide, He is the Professor of Classical Improvisation and its various applications to solo and ensemble performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, David has been heading the Centre for Creative Performance & Classical Improvisation since 2005. He also teaches at...
2019-10-091h 02Nikhil Hogan ShowMarco PollaciI’m so pleased today to talk to my guest today, Music theorist, historian, pianist and singer, Dr. Marco Pollaci! Following his studies as a pianist and singer, he graduated in a "Liberal arts - Music and Performing Arts degree - " from the University of Tor Vergata in Rome with Dr. Giorgio Sanguinetti and went on to receive his PhD in Music from the University of Nottingham in 2018.
Dr. Pollaci's research focuses on eighteenth and nineteenth-century opera and music history. He is interested in sketch studies, music theory and music analysis. Further research interests include Part...
2019-09-151h 05Nikhil Hogan ShowGiorgio SanguinettiIt’s my pleasure to introduce my guest today Music Theorist, Performer and Music Historian, Dr. Giorgio Sanguinetti! Sanguinetti teaches at the University of Rome-Tor Vergata. He gives classes and seminars in many prestigious European and American institutions, such as the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, the university of Leuven (Belgium), the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland), the NUI in Maynooth (Ireland), the CUNY Graduate Center (New York), Northwestern University, Indiana University at Bloomington, and the Boston University. For the winter semester 2012 he taught at the Schulich school of Music at McGill University, Montreal (CA). He was th...
2019-08-3058 minNikhil Hogan ShowRudolf LutzMy guest today is the internationally acclaimed pianist, organist, harpsichordist, composer, conductor and improviser, Dr. Rudolf Lutz! Lutz was organist of the church Sankt Laurenzen in St Gallen from 1973–2013, and conductor of the Bach-Chor St. Gallen from 1986–2008. Rudolf Lutz is a former lecturer for improvisation at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and has taught thorough-bass at the School of Music in Basel and oratorio studies at the Zurich University of the Arts. A respected composer; Lutz’s sinfonia for cantata BWV 158 by Bach and his Christmas oratory “An English Christmas” are critically acclaimed. In 2017, his cantata in homage...
2019-08-241h 03Nikhil Hogan ShowTobias CrammTobias Cramm studied fortepiano with Edoardo Torbianelli and Geoffrey Lancester in Basel/CH (Schola Cantorum) and Canberra/Australia and holds a Bachelor of Arts in musicology and social sciences from the university of Basel. He has been involved in exploring partimento-based approaches to improvisation and composing as a performer, researcher, and teacher since 2010. Cramm is gaining a stellar reputation as a music teacher with a proven track record of teaching some truly astonishing students. From July 7 to July 16, 2019, Tobias will be running a summer academy “MentiParti 2019” for exploring improvisation and composition based on the Neapolitan Part...
2019-08-1153 minNikhil Hogan ShowCharlie AlbrightOn today’s show, I’m so thrilled to talk to the amazing Pianist, Composer and Improviser, Charlie Albright! Hailed as “among the most gifted musicians of his generation” with a “dazzling natural keyboard affinity” who “made quite an impression” by the Washington Post, American pianist/composer/improviser Charlie Albright has been praised for his “jaw-dropping technique and virtuosity meshed with a distinctive musicality” by The New York Times, and his “extravagance that had showmanship but never felt cheap” with his “ease and smoothness that refuses to airbrush the music, but animates it from within” by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Recipie...
2019-07-271h 00Nikhil Hogan ShowPeter van TourI’m so delighted to talk to my guest today, Musicologist, Music Theorist, Composer and Educator, Peter van Tour! He is the author of Counterpoint and Partimento: Methods of Teaching Composition in Late 18th century Naples 2015, The Editor of a 3 volume series entitled, “The 189 Partimenti of Nicola Sala” published 2017 and has published many peer-reviewed articles. He earned his Phd in Musicology/Music Theory at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is also a Moderator of a popular, fast growing Facebook Group called “The Art of Partimento” which is dedicated to the compositional school of Naples and the ar...
2019-07-1259 minNikhil Hogan ShowRobert GjerdingenWhat a treat we have today, my guest is the illustrious Scholar of Music History, Theory and an expert of music in the 18th century Galant style, Dr. Robert Gjerdingen! Dr. Gjerdingen received his Bachelors in Music Composition from the California Institute of Arts, his MA in Music Theory and Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawaii and his PhD in Music history and Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and reviews in prestigious music journals such as the Journal of Music Theory and Journal of New Music Research.
2019-06-2759 minNikhil Hogan ShowRobert LevinI’m so delighted to introduce my guest today, acclaimed Classical Pianist, Composer, Improviser, Musicologist and Conductor, Robert Levin! An international performing concert pianist, he has performed throughout the US, Europe, Australia and Asia. As a recording artist, he has recorded for DG Archiv, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon Yellow Label, SONY Classical and more. Levin is renowned for his restoration of the Classical period practice of improvised embellishments and cadenzas; his Mozart and Beethoven performances have been hailed for their active mastery of the Classical musical language. In addition to his performing activities, Robert Le...
2019-06-191h 04Nikhil Hogan ShowJoe KataldoMy guest today is the exciting, up-and-coming composer, sound designer and guitarist, Joe Kataldo! Kataldo is the founder and audio director of Mad Wave Audio, LLC, an audio production company that specialize on game audio. Some of the work he’s done is music and sound design for "The Last Night", a post-cyberpunk video game set in a world with a deep, vibrant vision of the future, HyPerParasite, an Italian Twin Stick shooter, and sound design for the company Spaces Inc. Kataldo regularly composes music for "H3VR", a room-scale gun simulation VR ex...
2019-03-161h 00Nikhil Hogan ShowRobert GreenbergMy guest today is composer, pianist and music historian, Dr. Robert Greenberg! Dr. Greenberg has composed over fifty works for a wide variety of instrumental and vocal ensembles, and his works have been performed all over the world. A “Steinway Artist,” Dr. Greenberg has also received many other honors including three Nicola de Lorenzo Composition Prizes and a Koussevitzky commission from the Library of Congress. He has been profiled in various major publications, including The Wall Street Journal; Inc. magazine; and the London Times. Dr. Greenberg is popularly known for his over 550 lectures reco...
2019-02-2357 minNikhil Hogan ShowJason VieauxGRAMMY award-winning Classical guitar virtuoso Jason Vieaux is our guest for the first time today! Vieaux, “among the elite of today's classical guitarists” (Gramophone), is the guitarist that goes beyond the classical. NPR describes Vieaux as, “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation.” Among his extensive discography is the 2015 Grammy Award winning album for Best Classical Instrumental Solo, Play, from which the track “Zapateado” was also chosen as one of NPR’s “50 Favorite Songs of 2014 (So Far).” In 2012, the Jason Vieaux School of Classical Guitar was launched with ArtistWorks Inc., an unprecedented tech...
2019-01-081h 07Nikhil Hogan ShowBright ShengMy guest today is MacArthur Foundation Genius award winner and one of the top composers around today, Bright Sheng! A MacArthur fellow and proclaimed by the foundation as “an innovative composer who merges diverse musical customs in works that transcend conventional aesthetic boundaries”, Sheng has created an oeuvre that is not only with Asian influence but also with strong synthesis of Western musical tradition which makes his work distinctive and original. Sheng himself admits: “I consider myself both 100% American and 100% Asian.” In September of 2016, in a co-production with the Hong Kong Arts Festival, with sold-out runs at...
2019-01-011h 03Nikhil Hogan ShowSamuel AndreyevOur guest today is the renowned composer, oboist, poet and teacher Samuel Andreyev! Andreyev studied composition with Allain Gaussin in Paris, then at the Paris Conservatory, where he obtained a masters degree in composition under Frédéric Durieux, and a prix d’analyse under Claude Ledoux. He also studied electroacoustics at IRCAM from 2011-12. His composition Night Division was awarded the grand prix of the Concours Henri Dutilleux in 2012. In the same year, he was awarded a one-year residency at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. Frequently sought after as a guest lecturer, Samue...
2018-12-1359 minNikhil Hogan ShowNicholas MannIn today's episode, we talk to violinist Nicholas Mann, who is the Chair of the Manhattan School of Music String Department and a Juilliard Faculty member. We talk about the legacy of his late father, 4-time GRAMMY winner and Juilliard String Quartet Founder, Robert Mann and his recently released posthumous memoir, “A Passionate Journey”! Over a 50 year period, Robert Mann led the Juilliard String Quartet playing almost 6,000 performances all over the world, scooping up 4 GRAMMYs and sharing their distinctive sound with such notable figures such as Glenn Gould, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and even Albert Einstein. Hi...
2018-12-0554 minNikhil Hogan ShowElliot GoldenthalWe’ve got an amazing guest today, Academy Award-winning Composer, Elliot Goldenthal! He’s the composer for films such as Alien 3, Interview with the Vampire, Heat, Titus, Public Enemies, Batman Forever, Demolition Man, Final Fantasy the Spirits Within and many more. Goldenthal’s original two-act opera Grendel, directed by Julie Taymor, premiered at the Los Angeles Opera and was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in music. Goldenthal has composed music for more than a dozen theatrical productions including Juan Darién: A Carnival Mass, which received five Tony nominations including Best Musical, and Ori...
2018-10-231h 02Nikhil Hogan ShowJohn MortensenWe are delighted to have the renowned master of classical improvisation, pianist Dr. John Mortensen, join the show for the first time! Dr. John Mortensen is a leader in the international revival of classical improvisation. Appearing frequently as concert artist and masterclass teacher at colleges and universities in America and Europe, he is noted for his ability to improvise entire concerts in historical styles, including complex compositions such as Baroque fugues. His book on classical improvisation, “The Pianist’s Guide to Classical Improvisation” with Oxford University Press, will be a comprehensive method for training advanced pianis...
2018-06-261h 01Nikhil Hogan ShowDaniel SpreadburyDorico Product Marketing Manager Daniel Spreadbury returns to the show for his 2nd appearance to talk about the recent major release of Dorico Pro and Dorico Elements. Great new features such as added Video, Time Signatures, System Track, Automation, Divisi, Ossias, Slashes, Bar Repeats, Note Performer 3 and many more! We talk in-depth about the exciting new features and also spend a little time talking to Daniel about his musical tastes!
2018-06-0950 minNikhil Hogan ShowDr. Pamela Ruiter-FeenstraDr. Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra is an accomplished and acclaimed Organist & Historic Keyboardist, Liturgical Musician, Composer, Pedagogue, Improviser, Conductor. She holds degrees in organ performance and pedagogy, choral music education, and emphases in music theory, sacred music, and conducting at Dordt College (BA) and the University of Iowa (MFA, DMA). From 1996–2002, Dr. Ruiter-Feenstra served as Senior Researcher at the Göteborg Organ Art Center in Sweden. As Professor of Music at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas (1989–1996) and Eastern Michigan University (1996–2008), Ruiter-Feenstra taught organ, harpsichord, theory, improvisation, sacred music, and directed the Collegium Musicum. A founding member of Voci dell’An...
2018-04-261h 03Nikhil Hogan ShowJohnandrew SlominskiDr. Johnandrew Slominski is a distinguished performer, theorist, author, speaker, and pedagogue. By 21, Dr. Slominski earned three degrees from the Eastman School of Music including a Master of Music in Performance and Literature, a Master of Arts in Pedagogy of Music Theory, and a Bachelor of Music in Performance; his first professorship followed two years later. He received Eastman's coveted Performer's Certificate in recognition of outstanding concert artistry—the youngest individual to have received that honor. While completing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Eastman, he was awarded the Prize for Excellence in Teaching by a Gr...
2018-04-231h 02Nikhil Hogan ShowDaniel SpreadburyDaniel Spreadbury is the product marketing manager for Dorico, the revolutionary new music software that changes the game when it comes to digital music notation. No stranger to industry, Daniel has worked in the music notation software field for nearly 20 years and was an integral part of the Sibelius team before starting the Dorico project in 2012. We talk about his past work in Sibelius, amazing new features of Dorico, exciting future Dorico features and much, much more!
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