Composition and the Mediterranean: new musical spaces, new temporalities
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Entrance to all the events in the “Talks and Thoughts” Cycle is free and on a first come, first served basis.
The distribution of entrance tickets begins one (1) hour before each event.
The conference will be held in Greek, English and French and simultaneous translation is provided.
Composers and musicologists from almost every Mediterranean country will be in Athens to develop a constructive dialogue around the region’s musical identity today.
Continuing its collaboration with the University Paris 8, the Onassis Stegi is co-organizing a two-day conference on the subject of “Composition and the Mediterranean: new musical spaces, new temporalities”. Composers and musicologist from almost every Mediterranean country have been invited to the event to develop a constructive dialogue centered on the concepts of spatiality and temporality and to find common ground and orientations in the musical present of a multifaceted region with a long history.
The conference will combine sound and speech, exploring the thinking and music that are molding the musical identity of the Mediterranean today: a complex identity in which discrete traditions interact and in which the relationship between tradition and modernity is more than a fault line, providing composers with a fruitful field to process in their practice.
The conference will end with an exhilarating concert on Thursday 19 February. Held in the Main Stage of the Onassis Stegi, the event concert will feature works by Mediterranean composers including Giorgos Koumentakis, Dimitris Skyllas, Gianvincenzo Cresta, Zeynep Gedizlioğlu, Zad Moultaka, Saed Haddad, all performed by the outstanding KYKLOS ENSEMBLE.
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Wednesday 18 February
11:00-13:15 panel 1
11:00 Opening remarks: Christos Ι. Carras and Jean Paul Olive
11:15-11:45 Françoise Graziani: Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Corsica, Academic Director of the “Esprit Méditerranéen” Chair (France)
The etho-poetics of the Mediterranean space: towards a reconciliation of the ancients and the moderns
11:45-12:30 Gianvincenzo Cresta: Professor of Analysis and Composition, Theory Department, “D. Cimarosa" Conservatory, Avellino (Italy).
In amoroso canto: The breath of form
12:30-13:15 Joël Heuillon: Lecturer, Music Department, University of Paris-VIII (France)
Space/spaces in the vocal music of the early Baroque
13:15 Break
14:30-16:45 panel 2
14:30-15:15 Jean Paul Olive: Professor, Department of Music and Musicology, University of Paris-VIII (France)
Maurice Ohana: The temporality of myths re-interpreted
15:15-16:00 Saed Haddad: Ph.D. in Musical Composition (Jordan /Germany)
Composition and the illusion of time and space
16:00-16:45 Anis Fariji: Doctoral student in Musicology, Post-graduate Department of Aesthetics, Science and Art Technology, University of Paris-VIII (France)
Spatial-temporal categories in the maqâm tradition following their re-evaluation in the contemporary music literature
16:45 Break
17:15-18:45 panel 3
17:15-18:00 Zaid Jabri: Doctor of Arts, music composition (Syria / Poland)
The dimension of time and space in my music
18:00-18:45 Dimitris Skyllas: Composer, Pianist
Contemporary reflections on the Epirote dirge
18:45 Round-table discussion
Thursday 19 February
11:00-12:30 panel 4
11:00-11:45 Angeliki Kordelou: Musical educator, Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Paris-ΙV
Intertextuality and time innovations in the Typewriter Tunes and Isokratimata cycles by George Koumentakis
11:45-12:30 José María Sánchez-Verdú: Composer & Professor of Composition, Robert-Schumann-Hochschule, Düsseldorf (Germany) and the CSMA, Saragossa (Spain)
Libro de las estancias and ATLAS-Inseln der Utopie: Reflections on space, light and sound
12:30-13:15 Karim Elloumi: Doctoral student in Musicology, Post-graduate Department of Aesthetics, Science and Art Technology, University of Paris-VIII and teacher at the Académie de Créteil (France)
Temporal multiplicity in the work of Ahmed Essyad
13:15 Break
13:15-16:45 panel 5
14:30-15:15 Fabien San Martin: Doctoral student in Musicology, Post-graduate Department of Aesthetics, Science and Art Technology, University of Paris-VIII (France)
15:15-16:00 Zeynep Gedizlioglu: Composer (Turkey / Germany)
The Mediterranean in my music
16:00-16:45 Zad Moultaka: Composer (Lebanon / France)
Crossing - The Heterophony of space
16:45 Break
17:15-18:30 panel 6
17:15-18:00 Giorgos Zervos: Composer & Musicologist. Assistant Professor, Music Department, Athens University
Thoughts on Mediterranean music today, starting from the heritage of the European avant-garde.
18:00-18:30 Anis Fariji: Doctoral student in Musicology, Post-graduate Department of Aesthetics, Science and Art Technology, University of Paris-VIII (France)
Μusical composition in the perspective of Edouard Glissant's conception of the Diverse as space
18:30 Round-table discussion
20:30 Concert with the KYKLOS ENSEMBLE (Main Stage)
Oversight
Professor, University Paris 8
Jean Paul Olive
Project Assistant, University Paris 8
Anis Fariji
General Director, Onassis Stegi
Christos Carras
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