Lecture Locations

Previous lectures (representative list) by William Westney include:

  • American Society for Aesthetics (Tampa, FL): “‘You Make it Look So Easy’: Negotiating Beauty and Utility in the Practice Room” – co-presentation with Cynthia M. Grund, 2011
  • Royal Musical Association, Music and Philosophy Study Group (London, UK): “Pathways to Operatic Interpretation” – co-presentation with Cynthia M. Grund, 2011
  • Music Teachers Association of California (Oakland): Keynote address “Serious Fun- A Contradiction in Terms?” 2011
  • University of Texas (Austin), Philosophy Department Colloquium “Intentionality in Music Performance” 2011
  • University of Southern Denmark (Odense): “The Philosophy of Musical Gesture” 2010
  • American Society for Aesthetics (Victoria, B.C., Canada): “Susanne K. Langer’s Ideas of ‘Living Form’ and Martin Buber’s Notion of verwirklichen as These Apply to Group Exercises in a Classical-Music Workshop” – co-presentation with Cynthia M. Grund, 2010
  • Bifröst University (Iceland)” co-presenter with Cynthia M. Grund “Gesture, Music and Meaning” 2010
  • University of Southern Denmark (Odense): “Gestures in the Mirror: Embodying Musical Empathy” 2010
  • University of Southern Denmark (Odense): Hans Christian Andersen Guest Professor lecture “Experience and Inquiry: A Musical Journey” 2009
  • Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, Finland): co-presenter with Cynthia M. Grund “Performance, Pedagogy and Pragmatism” 2009
  • Odense Hospital (Denmark), “Music and Wellness” series: “What’s Good About Good Vibrations?” 2009
  • Tunghai University (Taichung, Taiwan): “Trusting the Musician Within” 2009
  • Piano Pedagogy Symposium (Singapore): “Bartok’s Mikrokosmos: A Pedagogical Gold Mine” (and other lectures) 2009
  • Leuphana University (Lüneburg, Germany): “Symbolic Forms and Creativity” 2008
  • Network for Cross-Disciplinary Studies of Music and Meaning (Esbjerg, Denmark): “The Circuit of Musical Meaning” 2008
  • International Society for Music Education (Bologna, Italy): “The Adventurous Adult Amateur” 2008
  • Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference (Canberra, Australia): “The Perfect Wrong Note” 2007
  • Sounds Great! Music Education Conference (Melbourne, Australia): “The Perfect Wrong Note” 2007
  • National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy (Chicago, IL): “The Interactive Piano Lesson” 2007
  • Central Conservatory and Capital Normal University (Beijing, China): “The Perfect Wrong Note” 2006
  • Chung-Ang University, Ewha University, and 5 others in Korea: “The Perfect Wrong Note” 2006
  • European Piano Teachers Association (London, UK): “The Perfect Wrong Note” 2004 – 2006
  • World Piano Pedagogy Conf. (Anaheim, CA): “Piano Nirvana: Can Etudes Lead to Enlightenment?” 2005
  • Chautauqua Institution (NY): “Juicy Mistakes: How to Invite Breakthroughs in Learning, Life, and Art” 2005
  • Luxury Kitchen and Bath Collection (Miami, FL): “Perfectionism, Creativity, and Mastery” 2005
  • Ithaca College (NY): “Vitality in Performance” (residency) 2005
  • PhotoPlus Expo (Javits Center, NY, NY): “The Musical Impulse in Photography” 2004
  • Music Teachers National Association (Kansas City, MO):  “Do Your Students Ever Get Discouraged? Ten Common-Sense Ways to Restore Their Natural Zest and Confidence” 2004
  • The Music School (Providence, RI): workshops entitled “Trusting the Musical Self” 2004
  • Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park, NY): “Perfectionism and Mastery” 2004
  • World Piano Pedagogy Conference (Nashville, TN): “The Illusion of Control” 2003
  • Philosophy Symposium, Texas Tech University (panelist): “How Artists Read Philosophy and How Philosophers Think about Art: the Works of S. Langer” 2003
  • World Piano Pedagogy Conference (Las Vegas, NV): “Mood Music: Mixing Recital Genres” 2000
  • Music Teachers Association of California (San Diego): “The Perils of Perfectionism” 2000
  • International Workshops (Glasgow, Scotland):  “The Perils of Perfectionism” 1999
  • Arts and Sciences Interactive Forum (Texas Tech):  “Creativity and the Body”  1999
  • Workshops of Santa Fe (NM):  “The Musical Impulse in Photography”  1999
  • University of St. Thomas (MN):  “Vitality in the Music Studio”  1999
  • OK, NM, MT, CO, OR, TN Music Teachers’ Associations:  “Vitality in the Music Studio” 1998-2006
  • Piano Teachers Congress of New York: “The Perils of Perfectionism”  1998
  • World Piano Pedagogy Conference (Philadelphia): “Movement – language of the soul” 1997
  • Music Teachers National Association (Dallas): “The Perils of Perfectionism”  1997
  • Texas Music Educators Assoc. (San Antonio): “The Un-Rehearsal – an introduction” 1997
  • International Society for Music and Medicine (San Antonio): “Perfectionism as a Direct Cause of Musical Injury” 1996
  • National Piano Pedagogy Conference (Chicago): “The Un-Master Class – What is it?” 1996
  • European Piano Teachers Assoc. (Manchester, U.K.): “The Perils of  Perfectionism”  1996
  • University of Kansas:  lecture/demonstration “How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love my Mistakes”  1995
  • National Conference on Piano Pedagogy (Chicago): panelist “Re-thinking the Master-Class”  1994
  • Taiwan – various schools throughout the country: “Healthy Mistakes, Healthy Practice”  1994
  • Korea – Yon Sei University (Seoul): “Healthy Mistakes, Healthy Practice”  1994
  • Yale University: “Music-Making as a Pathway to Understanding”  1993
  • National Conf. on Piano Pedagogy (Chicago): panelist “Multiple Career Paths through Music”  1992
  • English Honor Society, Texas Tech: “Tacit Knowledge”  1991
  • International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, annual conference (Cocoa Beach, FL): “Waking up our learning minds through music”  1991
  • Michael Polanyi Centennial (Kent State University): “Tacit Knowing at the Piano Bench”  1991
  • International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, annual conference (Indianapolis): “Music and Concrete Learning”  1990
  • College Music Society (Washington D.C.):  “Music performance and ‘higher thinking’”  1990
  • Association for Humanistic Psychology, annual meeting (Stanford, CA):  “The interrelationship between humanistic psychology and the teaching and performing of classical music”  1989
  • Philosophy Club, Texas Tech:  “Knowledge and the non-verbal mind”  1989
  • College Music Soc. – SW Chapter:  “Musical performance as a prototype of human learning”  1989
  • Texas Music Educators Assoc.:  “Musical performance as a prototype of human learning”  1989
  • Mortarboard (academic honors society), Texas Tech:  “Keys to problem-solving” 1988
  • Medical Program for Performing Artists, Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago): “Realism in the practice-room”  1988
  • International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance (London, England): “Tension problems of the gifted student”  1987
  • Texas Assoc. for the Gifted and Talented (Dallas):  keynote  “Creativity – our natural birthright”  1987
  • International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance (Princeton, NJ):  “Chronic tension problems of the ‘good student’”  1986