Music and Technologies 2

About

Darius Kucinskas is a musicologist and Professor at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). In 1993 he graduated from the Lithuanian Music Academy as a pianist and defended his PhD in Ciurlionis'' music in 2002. Dr. Kucinskas worked as a Researcher for over ten years in the National M. K. Ciurlionis Art Museum and at J. Petronis Music Edition. Between 2004 and 2014 he served as Head of Department of Audiovisual Arts at KTU. He has published over 20 articles and participated in more than 40 conferences in both Europe and Asia and has organized several international conferences in Lithuania dedicated to contemporary research of music interpretation music semiotics and music technologies. He is the author of the monographs The Musical Text of Ciurlionis Piano Music (Aspect of Genesis) (Technologija 2004) and Chronological Catalogue of Ciurlionis Music (Technologija 2007); and he is an editor of eleven editions of Ciurlionis'' music including Piano Works (Urtext) (Yamaha Music Media Corporation Tokyo 2011).Georg Kennaway is a cellist conductor teacher and musicologist. He is Director of Music at the University of Hull and holds visiting research fellowships at the universities of Leeds and Huddersfield. Born in Edinburgh he studied at the universities of Newcastle and Oxford the Guildhall School of Music and the University of Leeds. As a cellist he regularly performs as a soloist and chamber music player on modern 19th-century and baroque cello. He has also conducted orchestras in the UK Russia Uzbekistan Kazakhstan Italy and Lithuania. He received his PhD in 19th-century cello performance practice. From 2008-12 he was a Post-doctoral Researcher on a research project investigating 19th-century editions of string music. His publications include Playing the Cello 1780-1930 (Ashgate 2014) and articles on editions of Haydn cello concertos applications of Foucauldian discours to performance and a comparative study of musical scores as instructional texts. He is the leading UK specialist in the music and art of M. K. Ciurlionis and has published on Ciurlionis'' English reception and most recently on his octatonic compositions.