Xenia PESTOVA


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Teaching:

MUHL 396-001 The Era of the Modern Piano, McGill University, Winter 2010.
MUEN 581-001 Piano Ensemble Seminar, McGill University, Fall 2008/Winter 2009.


Research (Presentations, Recordings and Publications):

Pestova, X. Models of Interaction: Synchronisation Strategies in Works for Piano and Live Electronics
Journal of Music, Technology and Education, forthcoming.

Performance with The Rulers: Gesture, Repertoire and Pedagogy
Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, 2010 - present (see research profile)

Pestova, X. Models of Interaction in Works for Piano and Live Electronics
9th Annual CSUF New Music Festival: The Pianist in the 21st Century
Composer / Performer Symposium, California State University Fullerton, March 2009

Equal Parts piano concerto by Iain Matheson, Luxembourg Sinfonietta, LSCM

Pestova, X. et al. "The CIRMMT McGill Digital Orchestra Project"
In Proceedings, International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, August 2009.

Pestova, X., E. Donald and D. A. Stewart. "The Digital Orchestra Project: Digital Musical Instruments and Performance Practice"
Presented: Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, February 2009
McGill Music Graduate Symposium, March 2009.

Repertoire List of Works for Piano and Live Electronics, September 2008.

Digital realization of Mantra by Karlheinz Stockhausen, January 2007 - November 2008.

Pestova, X. Models of Interaction in Works for Piano and Live Electronics
Doctor of Music Dissertation, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, September 2008.

Pestova, X., M. T. Marshall and J. Sudol. "Analogue to Digital: Authenticity Vs. Sustainability in Stockhausen's MANTRA (1970)"
In Proceedings, International Computer Music Conference, Belfast. August 2008, 201-204.

Pestova, X. Messiaen as Painter: Nature Depictions in the "Catalogue d'oiseaux"
Presented: University of Toronto Music Graduate Students' Association Conference, March 2008
Echo Conference: Space, Time, and Music, UCLA, May 2008.

CIRMMT McGill Digital Orchestra Project
Design and implementation of new gestural controllers, January 2006 - March 2008

Pestova, X. Form and Notation: the Piano Miniature of the Russian Avant-garde
McGill University Music Graduate Students' Symposium, March 2007

Fetish Effigies by James Gardner for piano and ensemble
The Waiteata Collection of New Zealand Music Volume VIII: Chamber Music II, Waiteata Music Press

Music and Landscape: Messiaen and Nature
Postgraduate Diploma Research, Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, May 2003.

Pestova, X. Towards a Unity of Colour: Nikolai Roslavets' New Logic of Sound; as Employed in the Second Piano Sonata of 1916
Master of Music Dissertation, London College of Music, Thames Valley University, August 2001.


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