The 4th Global Piano Roll Meeting – Day 2

The 4th Global Piano Roll Meeting (GPRM) will take place at Stanford University, August 7–9, 2026. This is the leading international forum for music roll scholars, performers, archivists, and enthusiasts. The conference will take place over three days and include paper sessions, concerts, roll playing instruments, and social events. Topics include the historical study of piano and organ rolls, performers, audiences, and repertoires; pneumatic instruments; roll manufacturing; archival preservation and access; roll collections; performance studies; and performance practices. Day 2 Program of Events: 9:30am – Neal Peres da Costa From Classical to Modern: 30 years of reproducing piano rolls, 130 years of performance practice 10:00am – Akiko Washino Unequal Left-Hand Accompaniments: Performances of Classical Works by Carl Reinecke, Fritz von Bose, and Frederic Lamond 10:30am – Break 11:00am – Erinn Knyt Beyond the Score: Ferrucio Busoni’s Reshaping of the Compositions of Franz Liszt 11:30am – Laura Granero De-competing Chopin: Chopin on Piano Rolls 12:00pm – Lunch 1:30pm – Katarzyna Hatalak Theodor Leschetizky's interpretations in recordings for Welte-Mignon: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Fantasy in C minor, KV 475 and Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturne in D- flat major, Op. 27 No. 2 2:00pm – Jeffrey Swinkin Performative Structure, Analytical Structure: Leschetizky’s Roll of Mozart’s Fantasy, K. 475 2:30pm – Break 3:00pm – Petra Kirchner Interplay across centuries: Reinecke’s voice in Mozart’s Phantasie K 475 – Galant schemata and 19th -century performance aesthetics 3:30pm – Kawa Mateusz The Recordings from the Zamoyski-Collection as well as Wanda Landowska’s Interpretation of Mozart’s Sonata K. 576. Social, Aesthetic, and Technical Contexts 4:00pm – Break 4:30pm – Antonio Simon (Lecture-recital) Beethoven’s Op. 111 and the Romantic Paradigm: From Reconstruction to Re-Creation 5:15pm – Break 5:30pm – Concert 2: Performance and rolls 6:30pm – End of conference day​​​​​​​ Admission I