Teaching:

Various Locations:
Contemporary Piano Clinics

Bangor University:
Music for Instruments and Electronics: History, Composition and Performance (new MA module from 2012/13)
Teaching Techniques
Ensemble Performance
Solo Performance

McGill University (past courses):
The Era of the Modern Piano
Piano Ensemble Seminar


Writings and Research (Presentations, Recordings, Publications):

Pestova, X. (2013) Performing Music for Piano and Electronics: interview with British pianist Philip Mead,
eContact! 14.4: TES 2011

Pestova, X. (2013) 5 Questions to Chris Paul Harman (composer),
I Care if You Listen

Pestova, X. (2013) Suzanne Farrin: Corpo di Terra on New Focus Recordings,
I Care if You Listen

Pestova, X. (2013) 5 questions to Patricia Alessandrini (composer and installation artist),
I Care if You Listen

Pestova, X. (2013) 5 Questions to Frances White (composer),
I Care if You Listen

Pestova, X. (2012) Liquid Room for John Cage: Ictus Ensemble in Luxembourg,
I Care if You Listen

Pestova, X. (2012) Losseff Plays Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes at Getting Nowhere,
I Care if You Listen

Lewis, A. and Pestova, X. (2012) The Audible and the Physical: a Gestural Topology for 'Mixed' Electronic Music,
Presented: EMS12, Stockholm, June 2012

CD: Metal Jacket by Nicole Lizee, with Shawn Mativetsky, tabla
Cycles, Ombu Productions, November 2011

Pestova, X. (2010) The Piano and Live Electronics Repertoire List,
eContact! 13.2: Keyboard + Live Electronics: The Performer's Perspective / Claviers + "live electronics" : La perspective de l’interprète

CD: Pestova/Meyer Piano Duo. Stockhausen: MANTRA Naxos 8.572398, September 2010.

Pestova, X. (2009) Models of interaction: performance strategies in works for piano and live electronics,
Journal of Music, Technology and Education 2: 2+3, pp. 113-126.

Godman, R., Pestova, X., Mead, P. (2009)
Reflections on Duel; performers, performances, technology and the audience
Procs Coventry University National Music Performance Symposium

The 30-second project (new music and podcasts, 2009)

Performance with The Rulers: Gesture, Repertoire and Pedagogy
Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, 2010 - 2011 (see research profile)

Pestova, X. Models of Interaction in Works for Piano and Live Electronics
Presented: California State University Fullerton Composer-Performer Symposium, March 2010
International Conference for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Pedagogy, University of Ottawa, Ontario, May 2010 (abstract)

CD: Equal Parts by Iain Matheson, Luxembourg Sinfonietta, LSCM

Pestova, X. et al. (2009) "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 - present

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

Pestova, X. (2008) 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. (2008) "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

CD: 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. (2001) 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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