Friday, March 18th, 2016
9:30 Welcome
Martin Baumeister, Director of the German Historical
Institute, Rome
Raoul Motika, Director of the Orient-Institute, Istanbul
10:00 Symposium
Ethnology of Contemporary Intercultural Music
Chair: Michael Ellison (Bristol/Istanbul), composer
10:00 Jin-Ah Kim (Seoul), Cross-Cultural Music Making
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Panel
Tradition and Avant-Garde
Statements
- Dieter Mack (Lübeck), composer, ethnomusicologist
- Christian Utz (Graz), composer, musicologist
- Oliver Schneller (Berlin/Rochester, NY), composer
- Younghi Pagh-Paan (Bremen), composer
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 Workshop talk
Performing Tradition and Avant-Garde in Turkey (Part I)
Lecture Rehearsal of Hezarfen Ensemble
Martin Greve (Istanbul) in conversation with composers, direc-tors and musicians: Evrim Demirel, Onur Türkmen, Ulrich Merten, Michael Ellison
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 Workshop talk
Performing Tradition and Avant-Garde in Turkey (Part II)
Direction: Martin Greve
20:00 Lecture Concert
New Music for a Traditional Turkish
Instrument: Bağlama
Kemal Dinç (Cologne/Rotterdam)
Erdem Şimşek (Istanbul)
Taner Akyol (Berlin)
Saturday, March 19th, 2016
10:00–13:00 Forum
Cross-Cultural Experience and Music Art work
Chair: Markus Engelhardt
“Into Istanbul”: Impressions and Personal Experiences of an Intercultural Project of the Siemens Arts Program (Mark Andre, composer)
Native Country and Abroad: Personal Experiences and Intercultural Relations as Resources of Music Composition, Interpretation and Didactics
Statements
- Taner Akyol (Berlin), composer
- Yuval Avital (Milan), composer
- Zeynep Gedizlioğlu (Berlin), composer
- Sven-Ingo Koch (Düsseldorf), composer
- Alper Maral (Istanbul), composer
- Stefan Pohlit (Istanbul), composer
- Charlotte Seither (Berlin), composer
13:00–15:00 Lunch
15:00–17:00 Forum
Cross-Cultural Music as Political and Artistic Challenge: Politics, Institution and Music Creativity in Intercultural Contexts
Chair: Jin-Ah Kim
Statements
- Joachim Blüher (Rome), Director of the German Acade-my Rome Villa Massimo
- Christian Lüffe (Istanbul), Director of the Goethe Insti-tute Istanbul, Artistic Director of the German Cultural Academy Villa Tarabya Istanbul
- Luca Lombardi (Rome/Tel Aviv), composer
- Jochen Proehl (Istanbul), visual artist, Director of the
Istanbul Berlin Art Bridge, Bahçeşehir University (BAU)
17:30–19:00 Summary and discussion
Chair: Martin Greve, Markus Engelhardt
20:00 Concert at German School, Rome
Hezarfen Ensemble
Contemporary Music of German, Turkish and Italian Composers including Turkish Instruments