“Welcome to Fiesta!”

Päivyt Meller, Géza Szilvay & young string players

Speakers: Gary McPherson, Guadalupe Lopez

Location: Sibelius-Academy R-Building Concert Hall

Address: Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 9, Helsinki

Gary E. McPherson studied music education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, before completing a Master of Music Education at Indiana University, a Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and a Licentiate and Fellowship in trumpet performance through Trinity College, London. In 2021, he was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate - Artium Doctorem Honoris Causa - from Lund University Sweden. Gary is the Ormond Professor of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music who has served as President of the International Society for Music Education. His research interests are broad and interdisciplinary. His most important research examines the acquisition and development of musical competence, and motivation to engage and participate in music from novice to expert levels. With a particular interest in the acquisition of visual, aural and creative performance skills, he studies how students become sufficiently motivated and self-regulated to achieve at the highest level. 

Guadalupe López-Íñiguez studied a Licentiate in Cello Performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Madrid and a Master of Early Music Performance at the Sibelius Academy, before completing a Doctorate in Educational Psychology at the Madrid Autonomous University. In 2018, she was awarded the honorary title of Docent at the Sibelius Academy, and in 2022 she received an Honorary Senior Fellowship at the University of Melbourne. She currently serves as University Researcher in Instrumental Pedagogy and Performance Science at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. As a Research Council of Finland Fellow, she leads the international project “The Politics of Care in the Professional Education of Children Gifted for Music”. Her interdisciplinary research explores constructivist pedagogy, motivation, identity, musicians’ well-being, and the psychology of music performance. An accomplished performer, she has released critically acclaimed recordings on Alba Records of the complete cello works of Gabrielli, Scarlatti, and Mendelssohn.

Speakers: Yvonne Frye, Mimi Zweig, Guadalupe Lopéz, Géza Szilvay, Cecilia Zilliacus, Erkki Lahesmaa & a student

Location: Sibelius-Academy R-Building Concert Hall

Address: Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 9, Helsinki

Speaker: Mimi Zweig

Location: Sibelius-Academy R-Building Concert Hall

Address: Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 9, Helsinki

Mimi Zweig is professor of music in violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and director of the Indiana University String Academy. She joined the Jacobs School of Music faculty in 1976. Zweig studied with Louis Krasner, Samuel Kissel, Raphael Bronstein, and Tadeusz Wroński. She has been a member of the Syracuse Symphony, American Symphony under Leopold Stokowski, and Indianapolis Symphony. She has developed pre-college string programs across the United States since 1972. Zweig has given master classes and pedagogy workshops in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Israel, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, and throughout Europe. Her innovative web-based teaching tool, Mimi Zweig StringPedagogy.com, is accessed worldwide. American Public Television released the Emmy-nominated documentary Circling Around —The Violin Virtuosi, featuring IU String Academy students, in Spring 2006. In 2019, Zweig was the recipient of the American String Teachers Association Artist Teacher Award. Her students have won numerous competitions and teach and perform worldwide. 

Email: zweig@iu.edu

Website: http://www.stringpedagogy.com

Location: Side Lobby, Musiikkitalo

Address: Mannerheimintie 13 A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

Includes a moment of Finnish Music performed by Adrian Ibañez-Resjan,, violin, and Alicia Ibañez-Resjan,, piano.

Location: Concert Hall, Musiikkitalo

Address: Mannerheimintie 13 A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland

Location: Cafe Feeniks, Sibelius-Academy R-Building

Address: Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 9, Helsinki