“The Global Cello” [Demonstration/Presentation]. December 31, 2025. South Central Regional Library, Louisville, KY, United States. COLLIDER Residency.
“The Global Cello: Meditations” [Demonstration/Presentation]. December 21, 2025. South Central Regional Library, Louisville, KY, United States. COLLIDER Residency.
“Open Rehearsal and Q&A” with Saw Peep Pan-Asian Ensemble. December 20, 2025. South Central Regional Library, Louisville, KY, United States. COLLIDER Residency.
“The Global Cello” [Demonstration/Presentation]. December 18, 2025. Highland Hills Middle School 6th Grade Orchestra Classes, Floyds Knobs, IN.
“The Global Cello” [Demonstration/Presentation]. December 18, 2025. Highland Hills Middle School 5th Grade Orchestra Classes, Floyds Knobs, IN.
“Asian String Band Music” [Demonstration/Presentation]. December 16, 2025. South Central Regional Library, Louisville, KY, United States. COLLIDER Residency.
“Asian Fiddles” [Demonstration/Presentation]. December 13, 2025. South Central Regional Library, Louisville, KY, United States. COLLIDER Residency.
“Asian Group Folk Dance Workshop” [Workshop/Presentation]. December 7, 2025. South Central Regional Library, Louisville, KY, United States. COLLIDER Residency.
“KAAPA Project: Kentuckiana Asian & Asian American Performing Arts” [Presentation]. December 6, 2025. South Central Regional Library, Louisville, KY, United States. COLLIDER Residency. (presenters: Divya Karthikeyan, Jon Silpayamanant).
Opening Talk: Art by Jon Silpayamanant [Presentation]. December 3, 2025. South Central Regional Library, Louisville, KY, United States. COLLIDER Residency.
“Music of the Middle East” [Presentation]. Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, United States. September 17, 2025. Global and Historical Studies (GHS) 211 “The Modern Middle East and North Africa.”
“Non-Western Music Notation Systems” [Presentation]. Technological University Dublin. March 27, 2025. Composition Seminar.
“Music of the Middle East” [Presentation]. Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, United States. February 5, 2025. Global and Historical Studies (GHS) 211 “The Modern Middle East and North Africa.”
2024
“How Systems of Exclusion Maintain Musical Canons” [Presentation] Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, United States. November 20, 2024. Music Theory and Difference Seminar, (MUSIC-347).
“Music of the Middle East” [Presentation]. Butler University, Indianapolis, IN, United States. September 17, 2024. Global and Historical Studies (GHS) 211 “The Modern Middle East and North Africa.”
“Creating New Works for Cello Students” [Conference Presentation]. ASTA National Conference, Louisville, KY, 2024. March 20-23, 2024. (presenters: Daniel Ketter, Lisa Caravan, Jon Silpayamanant, Bianca d’Avila do Prado).
“Academic Music Libraries and Local Musicians” [Conference Presentation]. 93rd Meeting of the Music Library Association, Cincinnati, OH, United States. February 28-March 2, 2024. (presenters: Eric Hung, Jon Silpayamanant).
2023
Presentation at North Miami High School. Manchester Symphony Orchestra Artist Residency. North Miami, IN, United States. May 11, 2023.
Presentation at North Miami Middle School. Manchester Symphony Orchestra Artist Residency. North Miami, IN, United States. May 11, 2023.
Presentation at Manchester University. Manchester Symphony Orchestra Artist Residency. North Manchester, IN, United States. May 10, 2023.
Presentation at Valparaiso High School. Manchester Symphony Orchestra Artist Residency. Valparaiso, IN, United States. May 10, 2023.
2 Presentations at Thomas Jefferson Middle School. Manchester Symphony Orchestra Artist Residency. Valparaiso, IN, United States. May 10, 2023.
North Manchester Historical Society Presentation/Performance. Manchester Symphony Orchestra Artist Residency. North Manchester, IN, United States. May 9, 2023.
2 Presentations at Edgewood Middle School. Manchester Symphony Orchestra Artist Residency. Warsaw, IN, United States. May 9, 2023.
4 Presentations at Lakeview Middle School. Manchester Symphony Orchestra Artist Residency. Warsaw, IN, United States. May 9, 2023.
“Diversifying Your Repertoire” [Presentation]. DePauw School of Music Faculty Meeting. Silpayamanant Residency. Greencastle, IN, United States. February 22-23, 2024.
“Diversifying Your Repertoire” [Convocation Presentation]. DePauw School of Music Student Convocation. Silpayamanant Residency. Greencastle, IN, United States. February 22-23, 2024.
“Beyond Eurocentric Music Education: A Look at Bi/Polymusical and Hybridized Music Education Models” [Conference Presentation]. BBIA Music Education Symposium “Solidarity, Joy, and Future Imagining.” Fort Worth, TX, United States. January 26-28, 2024.
“A Colonial History of Music Education” [Conference Presentation]. BBIA Music Education Symposium “Solidarity, Joy, and Future Imagining.” Fort Worth, TX, United States. January 26-28, 2024.
2022
“Integrating Colonial Histories of Forced Musical Labor into the Music History Curriculum”[Virtual Residency Presentation]. Silpayamanant Virtual Residency, Butler School of Music at University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States. November 17, 2022.
“How to Integrate Global Music History in Our Teaching,” AMS/SEM/SMT Joint Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States. November 12, 2022.
“Forced Musical Labor: A Colonial History of Classical Music and Music Schools (1527-1750)” [Virtual Residency Presentation]. Silpayamanant Virtual Residency, Butler School of Music at University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States. November 2, 2022
“Global Perspectives on Classical Music: A View from Asia” [Virtual Presentation]. Setting the Stage Workshop Series. Manhattan School of Music, New York City, NY, United States. October 11, 2022.
“Panel Discussion: Expanding Cultural Inclusivity in New Music” [Virtual]. Diversity and Inclusion in New Music Symposium. Goethe-Insitut Boston, October 10-11, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hA40TjO00A
“The Influence of Turkish Music in Mozart’s Vienna: Ottoman Military Bands” [Course Presentation]. Performance Class, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN, United States. October 4, 2022.
“Decolonizing the Music Ensemble” [Roundtable]. 2022 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (MIDSEM), Lexington, KY, United States. April 1-3, 2024. (panelists: Jon Silpayamanant, Angela Scharfenberger, Thomas Turino, Stefan Fiol, Elizabeth DiSavino, Emmanuel Stokes, & Sam Gleaves)
“When Heterophony Becomes Polyphony: Two Ways of Looking at Multipart Music on a Continuum and how that Influences Composition and Performance Practice” [Virtual Presentation]. Towards a History and a Transcultural Theory of Heterophony seminar. Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. January 26, 2022.
2021
“Hybridity and Anti-Colonial Orchestras.” [Virtual Presentation]. A Postcolonial Recherche, Ensemble Recherche and the Goethe-Institut. Freiburg im Breisgau, BW, Germany.
“Anti-Colonial Musical History, Theory, and Performance” [Virtual Presentation]. Ideas and Music class, USC Thornton School of Music. Los Angeles, CA, United States. November 1, 2021.
Racism and COVID-19: Combatting a Pandemic and Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders [Virtual Panel Discussion]. Muhammad Ali Center. Virtual, Louisville, KY, United States. April 21, 2021.
2020
“Seeing Ourselves in Asian American History through Film and Media” [Virtual Panel Discussion]. Philly Asian American Film Festival. Virtual, Philadelphia, PA, United States. November 20, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QYZ6DVeK4k
“Discovering Arabic Music with Jon Silpayamanant” [Virtual Presentation/Interview]. Compose With Me’s A Marathon for Beirut, Virtual. October 17, 2020.
“Music Educator Perspectives on Decolonization” [Virtual Presentation]. Decolonizing the Music Room. Virtual, Fort Worth, TX, United States. August 13, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLcJymfy6VQ
2017
A/tonal Talk/Q&A [Roundtable]. A/tonal Residency at Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts. Danville, KY, United States, June 2017.
2016
“A Muslim Ms. Marvel Is only the Tip of the Iceberg: Diversity in Graphic Novels” [Conference Presentation]. 2016 Diversity Research Conference “Diversity Climate Change.” Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN, United States. October 21-22, 2016. (presenters: Melanie Elizabeth Hughes, Gary Pinkston, Patrick Ridout, Susan Ridout, Jon Silpayamanant).
Turkish Improvisation [Workshop/Clinic]. DePauw University School of Music Cello Class. Greencastle, IN, United States. March, 2016.
Dream School Graduates: The experiences of the earliest alumni of Community Montessori Public Charter School, New Albany, Indiana, USA [Presentation] School Board and Director of Community Montessori Public Meeting, New Albany, IN, United States. February 2016.
2015
“Fostering Self-directed Montessori High School Graduates: operating within the constraints of the ever-changing Indiana Public Charter School Accountability Framework” [Poster presentation]. Association of Teacher Educators—Indiana Chapter, 68th Annual Fall Teacher Educator Conference, Challenges of Accountability: Beyond a Rock and a Hard Place, Columbus, IN, United States. October 2015.
“Dream School Graduates: The Experiences of the Earliest Alumni of Community Montessori Public Charter School, New Albany, Indiana, USA” [Presentation]. SCHOOL MEMORIES: New Trends in Historical Research into Education: Heuristic Perspectives and Methodological Issues, ,Universidad de Sevilla, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación, Seville, ES, Europe. September 22-23, 2015. (presenters: Melanie Hughes, Kaitlin Fondren, Jon Silpayamanant).
2014
“Fossils” [Presentation]. International Žižek Studies Conference. College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), Cincinnati, OH, United States. April 4-6, 2014. (presenters: Roxell Karr, Jon Silpayamanant). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWQX198PDpw
2013
“What is Xenomusic?” [Panel Presentation]. Starbase Indy, Indianapolis, IN, United States]. December 1, 2013. (presenters: Robert Bruce Scott, Jon Silpayamanant, Paul Radecki, Leonie Leduc)
“il Troubadore Presents: The Music of Middle Earth” [Presentation]. Starbase Indy, Indianapolis, IN, United States. November 30, 2013. (presenters: Robert Bruce Scott, Jon Silpayamanant).
“Xenomusic” [Panel Presentation]. Trek Trax Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, United States. April 20, 2013. (presenters: Robert Bruce Scott, Jon Silpayamanant, Paul Radecki)
“Making Alien Music” [Workshop Presentation] ConGlomeration, Louisville, KY, United States. April 6, 2013.
“Dark Taqsim” [Workshop] Angels & Absinthe 2013, St. Louis, MO, United States. March 8-10, 2013.
2012
“il Troubadore Presents: The Music of Middle Earth” [Presentation]. Starbase Indy, Indianapolis, IN, United States. November 25, 2012. (presenters: Robert Bruce Scott, Jon Silpayamanant).
“Dark Taqsim” [Workshop]. Tribal Revolution Bellydance and Music Festival, Wheeling, IL, United States. June 2012.
“Melodic Improvisation” [Workshop]. Tribal Revolution Bellydance and Music Festival, Wheeling, IL, United States. June 2012.
“Expanding your Drum Repertoire” [Workshop]. Tribal Revolution Bellydance and Music Festival, Wheeling, IL, United States. June 2012.
2 Presentations on the Music of Asia at Scribner Junior High School. New Albany, IN, United States. May 9, 2012.
“Music Enterpreneurship/Portfolio Career” [Skype Presentation]. DePauw University School of Music, Greencastle, IN, United States. May 2, 2012.
2011
“Making Alien Music” [Workshop Presentation]. Cyphan 2, Chicago, IL, United States. July 30, 2011.
“Xenomusic” [Panel Presentation]. InConJunction, Indianapolis, IN, United States. July 1-3, 2011.
Non-Western Cello [Presentation Performance]. Performance Class, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN, United States. February 2, 2011.
2008
In-service Presentation Scribner Junior High School. New Albany, IN, United States. August 29, 2008.
Floyd County Historic Homes Digitization Project [Presentation]. Digital Fair, IN. March 14, 2008.
2007
Presentation at DePauw University School of Music. Greencastle, IN, United States. November, 2007.
2000
“Ontology, Alterity, and the Fallacy of Art” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. February 6, 2000.
1999
“Reciting the Music of Music: Text-Sound Art, Phonetic Music, and the Avant-Garde” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. October 17, 1999.
“Women, the Avant-Garde, and the Cello” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. October 2, 1999.
“Mike Patton and the Zornian Aesthetic” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. September 24, 1999.
Bruitisme: Futurism, Noise, and the Avant-Garde” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. September 18, 1999.
“The Wired Cello in the Age of Electronic Encryption” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. August 28, 1999.
1997
“Interactivity in Literature: A Look at Hypertext Narrative and Cyber Narrative” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 13, 1997.
“Eclecticism and Music: Laurie Anderson, John Corigliano, James MacMillan, Frederic Rzewski” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. October 2, 1997.
“Some Avant-Rock: A Look at Some Truly Progressive Pop Music” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. September 17, 1997.
“The Cello in the Age of Electronic Sounds: A Lecture and Discussion on the Cello and Technology” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. September 16, 1997.
“Kurt Schwitters: Performance and Merz” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. March 6, 1997.
“Carter/Nancarrow: Discourse on Compositional Theories of Rhythm” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. March 5, 1997.
“The Music of Thailand: From the Mon Style to Maw Lam of the Northeast Laotian Border” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. March 3, 1997.
“Towards a Nominalization of DW Set-Theoretical Music Analysis” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. February 22, 1997.
“Cage: An Aesthetics of Acceptance” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. January 25, 1997.
“Duchamp and Schwitters: The Music of Dada” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. January 22, 1997.
“Dada: The End of Art?” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. January 22, 1997.
“Music and Composers of the Futurism Movement” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. January 20, 1997.
Futurism: The Machine Aesthetic” [Presentation].The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. January 20, 1997.
“Women of the Avantgarde6: Women Cellists” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. January 17, 1997.
“Women of the Avantgarde5: Yoko Ono” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. January 16, 1997.
“Women of the Avantgarde4: Meredith Monk” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. January 16, 1997.
“Women of the Avantgarde3: Jackie Apple” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. January 15, 1997.
“Women of the Avantgarde2: Laurie Anderson (Part II)” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. January 14, 1997.
“Women of the Avantgarde1: Laurie Anderson (Part I)” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. January 13, 1997.
1996
“Cage and Fluxus: Life as Art” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 19, 1996.
“The Wheel of Life and the Hierarchy of Beings” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 18, 1996.
Jaques Attali: Noise: A Discourse on his Political Economy of Music” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 18, 1996.
Cage/Partch, Buddhism/Daoism, Entropy/Chaos” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 16, 1996.
“The Avant Garde: A Look at the Theories of Greenburg and Poggioli” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 16, 1996.
“Contemporary Music Education: A Look at Four Universities: University of Redlands, University of Washington, Bowling Green, Mills College” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 15, 1996.
“Avant Garde Theatre: The Theatre Scene in New York from the 60s” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 15, 1996.
“Stockhausen’s Superformula and the Applications of Kuhn’s Paradigm” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 12, 1996.
“What is Fluxus” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 11, 1996.
“The Art of Noise: A Look at the Aesthetics of Russolo and Paetella and Those Associated with the Futurist Movement” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 10, 1996.
“Rachel Rosenthal: Her Eco-Feminism and the Evolution of Radio Art” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 10, 1996.
Richard Foreman and his Theater of the Ontological-Hysteric: Reaching for the Pre-Concious and Removal of the Personality” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 9, 1996.
“Cage as Boddhisattva” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 9, 1996.
“Cage7: A Reading of John Cage’s Lecture Composition as Process (part III) followed by Discussion of the Cage Phenomenon” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 8, 1996.
“Xenakis: The Structure of His Nomos Alpha” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 5, 1996.
“Cage7: A Reading of John Cage’s Lecture Composition as Process (part II) followed by Discussion of the Cage Phenomenon” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 4, 1996.
Babbitt, Logical Positivism, and Axiomatic Set Theory” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 3, 1996.
“Cage6: A Reading of John Cage’s Lecture Composition as Process followed by Discussion of the Cage Phenomenon” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 2, 1996.
“Phonetic Music: The Use of Formants” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. December 1, 1996.
“Cage5: A Reading of John Cage’s Lecture on Commitment followed by Discussion of the Cage Phenomenon” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. November 21, 1996.
“Danger and Boredom: A Discourse in Minimalist Music” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. November 20, 1996.
“Cage4: A Reading of John Cage’s Indeterminacy followed by Discussion of the Cage Phenomenon” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. November 17, 1996.
“The Music of James MacMillan: A Discourse in Eclecticism” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. November 11, 1996.
“Cage3: A Reading of John Cage’s Lecture on Something followed by Discussion of the Cage Phenomenon” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. November 10, 1996.
“Harry Partch’s ‘Corporealism: A Discussion and Demonstration of Harry Partch’s Aesthetics” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. November 9, 1996.
“Cage2: A Reading of John Cage’s Juilliard Lectures followed by Discussion of the Cage Phenomenon” [Presentation]. The Chello Shed Presents…, Greencastle, IN, United States. November 8, 1996.
