Beyond the Notes: A Symposium Beyond the Notes A Symposium New Perspectives In Recent Chopin Scholarship Nationalism, Sexuality, Textuality A Panel Discussion and Concert Celda de Frédéric Chopin y George Sand Valldemossa, Mallorca 9 May 2026 2pm Symposium (see below) 7pm Concert – Juan Carlos Fernández-Nieto 9 May 2026 @ 5.00pm – Panel discussion In recent years some scholars have moved away from textual, analytical, and purely musical questions in Chopin Studies to focus on issues of context, cultural and gender studies, sexual orientation, nationalism, patriotism, colonial and postcolonial studies, environmentalism, and disability. This panel discussion gathers world-renowned scholars who have contributed to looking at and listening to Chopin from new, somewhat irreverent, highly debatable, and definitively debated and controversial scholarly perspectives. The discussion will include live musical illustrations using the 1852 Pleyel piano. In English, Spanish, and Catalan. Participants: Antoni Pizà – moderator, Foundation for Iberian Music, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York Francisco Javier Albo – pianist, scholar, and professor, Georgia State University, USA Juan Carlos Fernández-Nieto – pianist and scholar, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid John Rink – scholar and professor, University of Cambridge Moritz Weber – pianist and scholar, SRF – Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen 9 May 2026 @ 7pm – A Piano Recital by Juan Carlos Fernández-Nieto at the 1852 Pleyel piano