In cooperation with the Komitas Museum-Institute Yerevan and the Institute of Arts of the Armenian National Academy Yerevan, the mdw's Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology organized the International Komitas Conference 2024.
Komitas Vardapet (1869–1935) was one of the most notable figures in Armenian culture, a prolific fieldworker, a music scholar and the founder of the Armenian school of art music. Folk music is another key issue in Komitas’s legacy. Having recorded more than four thousand pieces of Armenian folk music, Komitas studied and compared them with those of neighboring ethnic communities. Through this work he became one of the pioneers in twentieth-century folk music research. Further information see Homepage Komitas Museum Institute.
The two-day conference consisting of lectures, keynotes, panels, workshops and a concert will be held in mdw's Fanny Hensel Hall and Joseph Haydn Hall. Submissions are now being accepted until the deadline of June 1, 2024 (see Call for Papers).
Programme committee:
Ardian Ahmedaja
Anna Asatryan
Nikolay Kostandyan
Marko Kölbl
Ulrich Morgenstern
Mher Navoyan
Hande Sağlam
Tatevik Shakhkulyan
Organizational board:
Lilit Harutyunyan
Eva Christina Moreno
Under the honorary patronage of the Embassy of Armenia in Austria