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    Curating Contemporary Music Festivals

    Curating Contemporary Music Festivals
    • A New Perspective on Music’s Mediation

    A New Perspective on Music’s Mediation

    Dr. Brandon Farnsworth

    Contemporary music, like other arts, is dealing with the rise of «curators» laying claim to everything from festivals to playlists – but what are they and what do they do anyway? Drawing from backgrounds ranging from curatorial studies to festival studies and musicology, Brandon Farnsworth lays out a theory for understanding curatorial practices in contemporary music, and how they could be a solution to the field’s diminishing social relevance. The volume focuses on two case studies, the Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre, and the Maerzmusik Festival at the Berliner Festspiele, putting them in a transdisciplinary history of curatorial practice, and showing what music curatorial practice can be.

    • Biografie

      Brandon Farnsworth, born in 1991, works as an independent music curator, and as a research associate at the Zurich University of the Arts, where he also studied classical music performance and transdisciplinary studies. He pursued his doctoral degree in historical musicology at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden. His research focuses on the intersection of performance and curatorial studies, and strives for a global perspective.

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      • Titelvergebende Hochschule: Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden

      • Betreuung: Prof. Dr. Jörn-Peter Hiekel, Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden