The First International Conference of Messiaen Studies will be held at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba from March 29 – April 1, 2008 to celebrate the centenary of Olivier Messiaen's Birth
Guest speakers will include Prof. Graham Hair (Glasgow), Prof. Larry Sitsky (Canberra), Dr Mark Carroll (Adelaide) and Prof. Marc Battier (Paris).
There will be several concerts of Messiaen's music, including piano recitals by Michael Kieran-Harvey and Larry Sitsky and an organ recital by Phillip Gearing.
The conference will be held in Toowoomba, Australia - in the mountains one and a half hours west of Brisbane. Toowoomba is a picturesque historic town with beautiful views, less than two hours drive from the Gold Coast.
Call for papers for inclusion within the following Sessions:
(1) Messiaen in Australia,
(2) Messiaen's musical language,
(3) Messiaen and spirituality
(4) Other (ornithology, technology, biography etc.)
The papers should be 20 minutes in length and formatted for inclusion within conference proceedings. The conference panel will select papers for possible further publication in the form of an edited book to be compiled later in 2008.
Please submit 500 word proposals by the 16th December, 2007 to Dr Judith Crispin - crispin@usq.edu.au