Diane Kolin

3rd Biennial Disability Studies & Music Education Symposium (DSandME ’23)

The theme of the conference is: Disrupting Music Education: Disability as “an ingenious way to live.” DSandME23 will take place from April 27, 2023, through April 29, 2023. The 3rd Biennial International Disability Studies and Music Education Symposium (DSandME23) explores how disability and lived experiences of disabled persons/persons with disabilities provide opportunities to productively disrupt...

Ottawa – Music and Health Conference: Knowledge Exchange, Mobilization, and Translation

Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre 1145 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Music and Health Research Institute (MHRI) 2023 Conference in Ottawa. This conference will have two parts: an Inaugural Conference of the Music and Health Research Institute, followed by a Music on Prescription Summit. It will take place from May 3-5, 2023, at The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre. I will co-present with Amy Hillis and...

MT180 – National final – Finale nationale – Montréal

HEC Montréal 3000, chemin Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, QC, Canada

On March 21, I won the Toronto "Ma Thèse en 180 secondes" (French Three Minutes Thesis) competition. I will therefore participate in the national competition on May 10 in Montreal. The My thesis in 180 seconds competition allows doctoral students to present their research topic in simple terms to a lay and diverse audience. Each...

Soar – Toronto Chinese Orchestra 30th anniversary concert

Trinity-St. Paul's United Church 427 Bloor St W, Toronto, ON, Canada

I will be one of the guests of this special performance. Come celebrate with us as we present our 30th Anniversary concert, SOAR, showcasing traditional and contemporary works for Chinese orchestra. All our repertoire are Canadian premieres, with one of the earliest works for the traditional Chinese orchestra, Variations on Xinshuiling (1925) by LIU Tianhua,...

Adaptive Voice and Instruments workshops at CMST: final performance 2023

York University, Music Department 83 York Boulevard, Accolade East Building, Toronto, ON, Canada

The CMST end of the year recital will feature a presentation of the adaptive voice and instruments workshops. The song "The Greatest" by Sia will be performed in American Sign Language by voice students, and another group of students will present their work on one of the adaptive instruments they discovered. One of my voice...

Children, Youth and Performance Conference 2023: “Disability and music: music education with adaptive instruments”

Young People's Theatre 165 Front St East, Toronto, ON, Canada

This conference is an exchange of knowledge between researchers, performers, educators, practitioners, and community organizers. Through a range of informative and interactive sessions, participants will discuss the present and future applications and implications of performance work with, by, for, and about children and youth. There will be a range of in-person events, panels, performances, and...

Salon Concert – Artist Residency at the Milkhouse in Prince Edward County

Milkhouse Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada

Salon concert at the Milkhouse in Prince Edward County, Ontario. Solo a cappella jazz concert. "Diane Kolin is a French musicologist specialized in Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Liszt. In France, she is the editor in chief of the Beethoven journal of the French Beethoven Society and frequently travels all over Europe for research and...

Organ Festival in St. Gallen, Switzerland

St. Laurenzen Church Kirche St. Laurenzen, Marktgasse 25, St. Gallen, Switzerland

My colleague and friend Bernhard Ruchti leads the fantastic Kuhn organ rehabilitation project in St. Laurenzen, St. Gallen, Switzerland. The new improved "Surround-Sound" instrument will be inaugurated in September 2023. The St. Laurenzen church will offer a three-weeks organ festival with distinguished guests from all over Europe. I will be onsite, helping the team with...

Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation”

Blessed Trinity Church 3228 Bavview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Presented by the Toronto Oratorio Society & the Blessed Trinity Choir, with orchestra. Grace Quinsey, soprano - Gabriel / Eve Ryan Downey, tenor - Uriel John Holland, bass - Raphael / Adam Karen Frank, Conductor I was one of the alto section leads.