Shakespeare and Music
You’re invited to join performers and composers from UQ’s School of Music, Sketch, directed by Robert Davison, the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble, and our Lloyd Davis Visiting Fellow, Professor Maddalena Pennacchia (Roma Tre University, Italy) for an evening of music inspired by and responding to the works of Shakespeare. The session will conclude with an “open mic” invitation to any musicians/composers/poets who would like to share something Shakespeare inspired!
All are welcome to attend this free event.
For more information regarding the lecture with Professor Pennacchia, visit the website here.
About our invited speaker
Maddalena Pennacchia is Full Professor of English Literature at Roma Tre University (Italy). Her research focuses on Shakespeare, particularly the Roman plays, intermediality and adaptation, applied Shakespeare, and more recently sound studies and Practice as Research. She is the author of Shakespeare Intermediale. I drammi romani (2012) and has published widely in international journals including Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare, Intermédialités, and Cahiers Élisabéthains. She is Principal Investigator of the national research project Applied Shakespeare, Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Encore performance series at Teatro Palladium in Rome, and President of the Italian Association of Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies (IASEMS).
About Sketch
Sketch was formed in 2021 and focuses on creating new compositions by its members. Since its inception, the ensemble has premiered numerous original compositions and fresh arrangements, featuring music from Japanese animation and video games. They have also introduced innovative works by Marike van Dijk, which utilised dynamic and animated notation. Additionally, the ensemble has focused on music that responds to and interprets specific natural environments. Sketch is directed by Robert Davidson, using insights from his 25 years as artistic director of the award-winning ensemble Topology.
Learn more about Sketch here: https://music.uq.edu.au/ensembles/student-ensembles/sketch
About the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble
The Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble (QSE) exists to:
* Powerfully share epic stories with live audiences
* Provide world-class training opportunities to actors and non-actors
* Support creativity in contexts and communities where it has been historically excluded
*Nurture an ensemble of artist managers that drive the company’s activities and works together to develop their skills on stage and off
Performing Shakespeare demands the cultivation of the whole self in the service of the communal enterprise, and as such is the ideal vehicle for this exploration. Although the Ensemble performs the works of other playwrights and authors, Shakespeare will always be the home from which we travel.
Learn more about the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble here: https://qldshakespeare.org/contact/