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
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
Collaboration between Seoul National University and PGVIM
10:40–11:20 — INVITED SPEAKERS
The ensemble of possibilities: Curiosity, courage and attending to what might be
Professor Sean Gregory
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
11:20–12:00 — INVITED SPEAKERS
Title to be confirmed
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
The White Monkey Captures a Mermaid — Saksri Vongtaradon
Alma Y Pasión (Soul and Passion) — Usa Napawan
Unforeseen Hotteterre — Yim Thanida x Ham Tanid
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
PGVIS performance
La Lai (녹다 / ละลาย) by Seathencity x SNU Team
Nisa Tiwa by TONTRAKUL (Tontrakul Kaewyong) and Naris (Narisara Sakpunjachot), with 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
Nakhonratchasima College of Dramatic Arts & Numpark Sribanditmongkol
11:00–12:00 — INVITED SPEAKERS
The risk of playing it safe
Professor Lies Coleman
Royal Conservatoire The Hague, the Netherlands
12:00–13:00
Lunch
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
PGVIS performance - Rainforest
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
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
Title (TBC)
Dr. Vichaya Mukdamanee
Silpakorn University
11:20–13:00 — INVITED SPEAKERS
Value-based education: Artistic citizenship and the GLOMUS Network
Professor Keld Hosbond
Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg (RAMA), Denmark
13:00–14:00
Lunch
13:00–14:00 — PERFORMANCE
Ding Yi — Showcase
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
PGVIS performance
Featuring:
Trai
Muralist Ensemble
AP University of Applied Sciences and Arts Antwerp
Seoul National University
A collaboration between PGVIM and the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore
Sisaket Rajabhat University
20:30–22:00 — PERFORMANCE
Late-night concert
Showcases from Studio Musikfabrik, Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB), Musikhochschule Lübeck (MHL), Seoul National University, and PGVIM.
22 August 2026
10:00–10:50 — INVITED SPEAKERS
Artificial intelligence and music (TBC)
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 music
By SNU Busking Duet
14:00–15:00 — PERFORMANCE
AI & immersive arts showcases
PGVIM Lifelong Learning Program
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 Nixsa (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 Monthon Jira (Ambient)
20:50–21:30 The Super Glasses Ensemble (Ska)
Invited Speakers
19
AUG
10:40–11:20 hrs (GMT + 7)
SVH
The Ensemble of Possibilities: Curiosity, Courage and Attending to What Might Be
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, England
20
AUG
13:00–14:00 hrs (GMT + 7)
WB
The place of collective creation in our institutions
Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon, France
21
AUG
10:00–10:40 hrs (GMT + 7)
C501
Women daring to be other-wise: Finding personal paths to transcend perceived conservatoire prejudices
Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, Australia
22
AUG
10:00–10:50 hrs (GMT + 7)
C501
Artificial intelligence and music (TBC)
Professor Li Xiaobing — Director of the Department of Music Artificial Intelligence
Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing
20
AUG
11:00–12:00 hrs (GMT + 7)
SVH
The Risk of Playing It Safe
Royal Conservatoire The Hague, Netherlands
21
AUG
14:00–15:00 hrs (GMT + 7)
C501
Toward a curatorial ethnomusicology: Designing the conditions for musical encounters
Silpakorn University, Thailand
22
AUG
10:50–11:30 hrs (GMT + 7)
C501
Cybernetic listening, technodiversity, and data corpora: Exploring ecologies through human–machine improvisation
Professor Nicola Hein — Studio for Electronic Music
Musikhochschule Lübeck, Germany
21
AUG
11:20–13:00 hrs (GMT + 7)
SVH
Value-based Education: Artistic Citizenship and the GLOMUS Network
Royal Academy of Music Aarhus, Denmark