Conference 2024

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    PROGRAM 

    MONDAY, 7 OCTOBER 2024
    Venue: Fanny Hensel-Saal, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

    Greeting Speeches
      – Univ.-Prof. Dr. h.c. Johannes Meissl, Vice Rector for International Affairs and Art of mdw
    – H.E. Armen Papikyan, Ambassador of Armenia to Austria
    – Marko Kölbl, Head of the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology of mdw
    – Nikolay Kostandyan, Director of the Komitas Museum-Institute Yerevan
    – Anna Asatryan, Director of the Institute of Arts of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia

    Round Table:
    Epistemologies, Institutions, Research Traditions: Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology in Austria and Armenia.
    Discussions with Representatives of the Komitas Museum-Institute Yerevan, the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology of mdw and the Institute of Arts of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.

    Session I – Traditional Music: Professional Performance
    Chair: Tatevik Shakhkulyan
    – Mher Navoyan. Syncretic Characteristics of Gusan Art
      – Iryna Fedun. Professional Folk Musicians in Ukraine: Current State and Prospects for the Development of the Tradition
      – Spandita Das. What sustains Baul-Fakir Performances? Reflections on Professionalization, Spiritual Practices and the Notion of Authenticity

    Session II – Traditional Music: Vernacular Life
    Chair: Hande Sağlam
      – Hasmik Harutyunyan & Hasmik Matikyan. Composition Mechanisms of Lullabies in the Modern Musical Folklore of Shirak
      – Tatevik Shakhkulyan. Descending melodic Line in the Home and Displacement
      – Lilit Harutyunyan. Echoes of Captivity: Unveiling Armenian Folk Music through WWI POW Recordings
      – Nvard Vardanyan & Lusine Hayriyan. The Song of the Frontline in 2020 in the 44-day Artsakh war: From traditional to modern Manifestations

    Session III – Komitas’ Activities
    Chair: Mher Navoyan
      – Lusine Sahakyan. The Role of Komitas in Armenian Women’s musical Education
    – Lilit Artemyan. Compositional Features and Performing Issues of Komitas’s “Dances”

    Workshop I: Parerg – Tradition and modern Application
    Facilitator: Tatevik Shakhkulyan

     

    8 OCTOBER 2024
    Venue: Fanny Hensel-Saal, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

    Session IV – Sonic Dimensions of Displacement, Migration and Diasporas
    Chair: Isabel Frey
      – Francesco Rossetti. A musical Father to found the Utopian Homeland: Komitas’s Legacy in the Milanese Armenian Avant-Garde
      – Sona Nalbandian. Komitas’s Folk Transcriptions: Sustaining Armenian musical Heritage in the Diaspora
      – Ani Hakobyan. Bedros Alahaidoian: Recordings from the Armenian Diasporas

    Session V – From Hymnography to Sacred Performance
    Chair: Lilit Yernjakyan
      – Christian Poske. Decolonizing Santal Hymnology: ‘Advanced far enough to make up Choirs with all four Voices’
      – Gayane Amiraghyan. New Julfa Chant of the Armenian Sacred Music: Migration and Identity

    Session VI – Culture and Identity
    Chair: Marko Kölbl
    – Jacob Olley. Armenian Music, Print Capitalism and Transimperial Networks in the long 19th Century
    – Lilit Yernjakyan. Reflections of Ottoman/Turkish Cultural Policy in 19th-20th Century Music Collections: Hornbostel, Komitas, Bartók

    Workshop II: Traditional Folk Dances of Austria and Armenia
    Facilitators: Else Schmidt and Ani Hakobyan