Summer School Recap

From July 8th to 12th, the first Timbre and Orchestration Summer School (TOSS) took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, organized by ACTOR postdocs Ben Duinker and Andrés Gutiérrez Martínez, and ACTOR collaborator and UdeM postdoc Kit Soden. The summer school was hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with on-site support by Asterios Zacharakis and was held around the TIMBRE 2023 conference. For five days, an international cohort of 55 students from a variety of academic institutions across Europe and North America as well as independent researchers and practitioners, met at the Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation to learn from leading voices in Timbre research about this multifaceted field as it pertains to orchestration in a broad sense.

As part of the organizing committee of the summer school, we are very proud of this accomplishment, and we are very thankful to the tutors involved and to everyone who supported the event along the way. The ACTOR Central committee is currently discussing the viability of continuing with the summer school in the foreseeable future. We are convinced that it is an important formative workshop for young research scholars and music practitioners.