The University of Oregon’s Oregon Bach Festival is happy to present the ninth annual Musicking Conference, “Musicking: Culturally Informed Performance Practices,” to be held in person in Eugene, OR on Tuesday, April 9 through Friday, April 12, 2024. The 2024 conference will bring together research, education, and performance by considering scholarship and performance practice studies through a cultural lens, related to the theme, “Resurgent Voices.” Conference activities include educational workshops, lecture performances, academic panels, evening concerts, and a culminating performance featuring Nicola Ceva’s oratorio, “Trionfo per l’Assunzione della Santissima Vergine” (1705). The committee encourages submissions for presentations and lecture-performances that highlight previously lost, discarded, or suppressed “voices,” music, and performance practices. Also desirable are submissions that place the conference topic, “Resurgent Voices,” in dialogue with the 2024 Oregon Bach Festival theme, “Ascending Voices.” Panels topics include but are not limited to, “Rediscovery,” “From Grief to Joy,” and “R(a)ising from Obscurity.”

To view the complete call for proposals and submit a paper or lecture-presentation, please visit https://blogs.uoregon.edu/musicking/