The Cultureel Centrum Curaçao (Sentro Kultural Kòrsou) provides private instruction in music, dance, and the literary, dramatic, and visual arts. The centre's music school, the Akademia di Músika Edgar Palm (re-named for the prominant composer in 1999), "offers classes in piano, guitar, keyboard, kuarta and mandolin, recorder ('blokfluit'), trumpet, saxophone, drum, percussion ... and AMV (Algemeen Muziek Vormend onderwijs) = general music education" ("History", 2011, paras. 6-7). Former students at the Akademia include composer and guitarist Randal Corsen ("History", 2011).
was convened to engage musicians, composers, and scholars from all over the world in presentations, performances, and conversations about composers and performers of African and Afro-Caribbean descent. It was organized around the theme "Caribbean Art Music: An Unexplored Tradition". This article is a transcription of the presentations delivered by participants of the session: Cultural Identity in Bahamian Art Music: The Expression of Four Bahamian Composers. Edward Bethel moderated the session, which featured Bahamian composers Cleophas Adderley, Audrey Dean-Wright, Christian Justilien, and K. Quincy Parker. They discussed their work, focusing on their compositional style and how or if cultural identity is a strong component in their work. Featured compositions contain hyperlinks to audio/video-recorded examples. Composer and moderator biographies are included, and more information may be found in the Symposium brochure.
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