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PGVIM International Symposium 2026

"Curiosity and Courage"

At its heart, music is a practice of questions. To listen deeply is already to be drawn into expectation and surprise — into the pull of what comes next, and the meaning that stirs when sound moves differently than we anticipated. It is what leads us to look at the music we have inherited and ask how it came to be, and what it still has left to say. This same curiosity is what drives us to follow a musical idea into territory it has never reached. And it is what compels us to discover in another person a capacity for expression they did not know they carried. Whatever our relationship to music — however we encounter it, question it, create it, or transmit it — curiosity is what keeps that first impulse alive long enough to matter.

But curiosity alone does not complete the act. There comes a point in every meaningful engagement with music where understanding must give way to sound — where it is no longer enough to know, and something more personal is required. Analysis must become interpretation. Knowledge must become expression. And what we have inherited, questioned, and imagined must finally be offered — to another person, to an audience, to the world — in a form that can be heard and felt. Courage, in this sense, is not about boldness or drama. It is the quieter willingness to act on what we know, to offer something of ourselves, and to stand by it.

We invite contributions from around the globe that explore these qualities across the full breadth of musical life — in the way music is made and imagined, in the way it is shared and received, in the way it is passed between people, and in the questions we bring to the music we have inherited — and to the music still waiting to be made.

PROGRAM

19th August

18 August 2026

13:00–16:00 — WORKSHOP

Artistic research workshop

Dr. Patricia Brillantes Silvestre, Dr. Jean-David Caillouët, Dr. Anna Patricia Rodriguez-Carranza
PGVIM & University of the Philippines

19 August 2026

10:00–10:10

Opening ceremony

10:10–10:40 — PERFORMANCE

ERWARTUNG BY EUNSAM LEE

Seoul National University and PGVIM

10:40–11:20 — INVITED SPEAKERS

GLOBAL ARTISTIC CITIZENSHIP: (RE)IMAGINING CURIOSITY, COURAGE, AND COLLABORATION AS CENTRAL ELEMENTS OF INTERCULTURAL MUSIC MAKING

Professor Sean Gregory
Guildhall School of Music & Drama

11:20–12:00 — INVITED SPEAKERS

GLOBAL ARTISTIC CITIZENSHIP: (RE)IMAGINING CURIOSITY, COURAGE, AND COLLABORATION AS CENTRAL ELEMENTS OF INTERCULTURAL MUSIC MAKING

Professor Nathan Riki Thomson
Professor of Global Music and Community Engagement at Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki

12:00–13:00

LUNCH

13:00–14:00 — PERFORMANCE

PGVIS CALL FOR PERFORMANCE Showcase

Alma Y Pasión (Soul and Passion) — Lalita Bay Jantaro & Usa Napawan

The White Monkey Captures a Mermaid — Saksri Vongtaradon

14:00–15:00 — INVITED SPEAKERS

THE ART OF PRELUDING

Professor Jeroen Malaise
AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts Antwerp

COFFEE BREAK

15:00–17:00 — PAPER PRESENTATIONS

PAPER PRESENTATIONS I

Various presenters (30 minutes per presentation)

17:00–18:00

DINNER

18:00–20:00 — PERFORMANCE

CURIOSITY AND COURAGE

100 Recorders
PGVIM 1st Year Students, PGVIM Singers, and PGVIM Faculty Performers

Song Project
Seoul National University (SNU) x PGVIM / Seathencity

La Lai (녹다 / ละลาย)
Seathencity x Seoul National University (SNU)

Samart Pai Talay (สามารถไปทะเล)
Pannawich Sakorn x Khon Kaen University

RUNG ARUNN
NISATIWA x PGVIM Ensemble
Tontrakul Kaewyong x Narisara Sakpunjachot x PGVIM

20 August 2026

10:00–10:40 — PERFORMANCE

PERFORMANCE BY HO CHI MINH CITY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC

Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music

10:40–11:00 — PERFORMANCE

GLOBAL PATHWAY FOR FOLK MUSICIAN — WORKSHOP SHOWCASE

Nakhon Ratchasima College of Dramatic Arts & Numpark Sribanditmongkol

11:00–12:00 — INVITED SPEAKERS

THE RISK OF PLAYING IT SAFE

Professor Lies Colman
Royal Conservatoire The Hague, the Netherlands

12:00–13:00

LUNCD

13:00–14:00 — INVITED SPEAKERS

THE PLACE OF COLLECTIVE CREATION IN OUR INSTITUTIONS

Professor Jean Geoffroy
Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon

14:00–15:00 — PANEL DISCUSSION

REINVENTING MUSIC TEACHING

Komsun Dilokunanant (Dean) & PGVIM School of Music

COFFEE BREAK

15:00–17:00 — PANEL DISCUSSION

Questioning research in music: Case studies from Thailand

Thai University Network
Peter Dejans, Provocateur

17:00–18:30

Dinner and transport to Marshall Livehouse

18:30–21:00 — PERFORMANCE

CURIOSITY IN RESONANCE

A collaboration between Studio Musikfabrik, Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB), Musikhochschule Lübeck (MHL), and Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music (PGVIM), led by Peter Veale,

Prof. Dr. Teresa Carrasco and Prof. Nicola Leonard Hein

Rainforest — David Tudor
Drifting Dialogue I — Wang Fei
Shaking in the Garden — Hermione Johnson
Tambour de Pan — Théo Mérigeau
Studie über Mehrklänge — Heinz Holliger
Listening within the Valley — Borjigin Anya
Curiosity Kills the Rat — Synthderella

21 August 2026

10:00–10:40 — INVITED SPEAKERS

WOMEN DARING TO BE OTHER-WISE: FINDING PERSONAL PATHS TO TRANSCEND PERCEIVED CONSERVATOIRE PREJUDICES

Professor Bernard Lanskey
Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University

10:40–11:20 — INVITED SPEAKERS

The Artist as Global Citizen: Creative Practice for Humanity through Collaborative Processes

Dr. Vichaya Mukdamanee
Silpakorn University

11:20–12:00 — INVITED SPEAKERS

VALUE-BASED EDUCATION: ARTISTIC CITIZENSHIP AND THE GLOMUS NETWORK

Professor Keld Hosbond
Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg (RAMA), Denmark

12:00–13:00

LUNCH

13:00–14:00 — PERFORMANCE

Music Without Borders

Ding Yi Ensemble

14:00–15:00 — INVITED SPEAKERS

TOWARD A CURATORIAL ETHNOMUSICOLOGY: DESIGNING THE CONDITIONS FOR MUSICAL ENCOUNTERS

Anant Narkkong
Silpakorn University

COFFEE BREAK

15:00–17:00 — PAPER PRESENTATIONS

PAPER PRESENTATIONS II

Various presenters (30 minutes per presentation)

17:00–18:00

DINNER

18:00–20:00 — PERFORMANCE

INTO POSSIBILITIES

Mist and Clouds Over the Xiao and Xiang Rivers — Guo Mian
The Art of Preluding — Showcase from masterclass by Jeroen Malaise
As far as “it” unfolds — Muralist Ensemble, Thailand
Aural Breakthroughs through Folk Music — Collaborative project between PGVIM, YST Conservatory

Showcase from masterclass by Karst de Jong

Unforeseen Hotteterre — Yim Thanida x Ham Tanid, Thailand

20:30–22:00 — PERFORMANCE

FOR THOSE WHO DARED

Showcases from Studio Musikfabrik, Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB),

Musikhochschule Lübeck (MHL), Seoul National University, and PGVIM.

Dance on a Pinpoint — Jingyan Li
Rogosanti — James Wood
Selections from Signs, Games and Messages — György Kurtág
Fluid Assemblages — Goeun Kim
The skatch of white scene — Ayisi
Selections from Játékok I: Shared Keys — György Kurtág
Assonance VII — Michael Jarrell
Selections from Signs, Games and Messages — György Kurtág
Selections from Játékok II: Poetic Whispers — Voice & String — György Kurtág
Delusional State — Grigorii Osipov
Selections from Játékok III: Infinite Playground — György Kurtág
Tertiary Protentions II — For Guitar and Musical Agent System — Nicola Leonard Hein
Codex IV — Richard Barrett
For ensemble

22 August 2026

10:00–10:50 — INVITED SPEAKERS

Machinism : Where is the Future of Music Conservatoires?

Professor Li Xiaobing
Director of the Department of Music Artificial Intelligence
Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing

10:50–11:30 — INVITED SPEAKERS

CYBERNETIC LISTENING, TECHNODIVERSITY, AND DATA CORPORA: EXPLORING ECOLOGIES THROUGH HUMAN–MACHINE IMPROVISATION

Professor Nicola Hein
Studio for Electronic Music, University of Music Lübeck

11:30–13:00 — PAPER PRESENTATIONS

PAPER PRESENTATIONS III

Various presenters (30 minutes per presentation)

13:00–14:00

LUNCH WITH NOREA: KOREAN BUSKING MUSIC

By SNU Busking Duet

14:00–15:00 — INVITED SPEAKERS

CAN A MACHINE LEARN THAI MUSICAL GRAMMAR? SYMBOLIC MODELING OF THAI CLASSICAL MUSIC

Thanakrit Lerdmatayakul

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Russia

AI MUSIC- WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GET THERE?

Lamtharn "Hanoi" Hantrakul aka yaboihanoi

Independent artist and director, Founder of Mayura Labs, ex-Google/ByteDance/TikTok AI Research Scientist

14:00–15:00 — PERFORMANCE

AI & IMMERSIVE ARTS SHOWCASES

PGVIM Lifelong Learning Program Showcase

15:00–22:00 — PERFORMANCE

SHOWCASES OF THAI MUSIC INDUSTRY & GUEST ENSEMBLES

Presented by MUSIC INDUSTRY NEXUS

15:00–15:40 PELA Folk Band — Acoustic Thai folk
15:40–16:20 ROWENA CALVERT — Experimental Classical
16:20–17:00 SUPERGOODS — Neo-funk
17:00–17:40 GYPSHA — World music
17:40–18:20 B35 — Contemporary Jazz
18:20–19:00 SUNDER — Contemporary Isan Music
19:10–19:50 INSPIRATIVE — Post-rock
20:00–20:40 MONTONN JIRA — Ambient
20:50–21:30 THE SUPER GLASSES ENSEMBLE — Ska