Symphony Music Director Paul Haas to Present 'Dimensionalizing Space ' Lecture on March 18
Paul Haas is music director of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Paul Haas will present a lecture at 1 p.m. Friday, March 18, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design lecture series.
Haas is music director of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas.
In this lecture, titled "Dimensionalizing Space: Paul Haas, Sympho, and the Art of Inhabitation," Haas will discuss how one's experience of space is greatly affected by what stimulates one's senses while inhabiting that space. Haas will describe the process by which he creates site-specific music installations for unique venues, uncovering and exploiting latent acoustic and other properties.
Haas "is surely on the brink of a noteworthy career," stated The New York Times, and Time Out New York has called him a "visionary."
Haas was trained as a conductor at The Juilliard School in New York and the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden, Germany. In addition to his work with the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, he has been a guest conductor for performances with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, San Antonio Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and the New World Symphony, among others, as well as festival appearances.
He is the founder and artistic director of the critically acclaimed Sympho, a groundbreaking orchestra that engages audiences by placing classical music in new contexts. Sympho's concerts range from commissioned evening-length compositions in unusual venues to thought-provoking, multisensory performances of pre-existing works from the length and breadth of the classical canon.
He is currently working on a commission from the Anchorage Museum of Art in Alaska, collaborating with Derek Coté, a renowned visual artist, to create a multimedia piece for the inaugural Polar Lab exhibition in May 2016.
Through a cooperative effort between the Fay Jones School, the Department of Landscape Architecture and the Arkansas ASLA Chapter as an ASLA LA CES provider, this presentation has been approved for 1.5 LA CES continuing education hours for landscape architects.
This lecture also qualifies for AIA Continuing Education System learning units.
The public is invited to attend. Admission is free, with limited seating.
For more information, contact 479-575-4704 or fayjones.uark.edu/.
Contacts
Michelle Parks, director of communications
Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design
479-575-4704,
mparks17@uark.edu
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