Cathy Berberian: Pioneer of Contemporary Vocality

Pamela Karantonis is Senior Lecturer in Voice at Bath Spa University, UK. She is a Convenor of the Music Theatre Working Group of The International Federation for Theatre Research. She is joint editor and contributing author for Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures (Ashgate, 2011) and The Legacy of Opera (2013). Francesca Placanica lectures in the Department of Music at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, after completing her PhD in 2013 at the University of Southampton, UK, as part of the FICTOS (Franco-Italian Cultural Transfers in Opera and Song 1800-1850) project, under the tutelage of Professor Mark Everist and Dr. Francesco Izzo. Her Masters dissertation Cathy Berberian: Performance as Composition included research at Cathy Berberian's personal archive in Los Angeles at the invitation of Berberian's daughter, Cristina Berio. Anne Sivuoja-Kauppala is Professor of Music Performance Research at the Sibelius Academy in Finland. Her publications include Narrating with Twelve Tones. Einojuhani Rautavaara's First Serial Period ca. 1957-1965 (1997) and a book on Kaija Saariaho's music. She co-edited Opera on the Move in the Nordic Countries during the Long 19th Century (2012). Pieter Verstraete is a Research Fellow at Bilgi University Istanbul. His interdisciplinary research encompasses sound, acts of listening, the disembodied voice and aurality. He has published in Performance Research, Sonic Mediations (2008) and Theatre Noise (2011), and has also co-edited Inside Knowledge (2009).