The two-year project “The Network of European Bagpipers” is implemented by the Erasmus+ program and unites the representatives of 6 countries. The aim of the project is to safeguard and to promote specific part of ICH (bagpipes playing and making tradition).

In the framework of the project, on October 5-10, deputy director of the Research Center for Polyphony, Nino Razmaze, and bagpiper players: Murad Tavartkiladze and Tornike Skhiereli visited Croatia. They got acquainted with the technology of making Croatian bagpipes and the traditions of its performance.

Project partners are:

• Suiti Cultural Heritage Foundation (Latvia) – Coordinating partner;

• Centre of Croatian traditional instruments (Croatia);

• Associazione culturale Multietnica (Italy);

• Asociación Gaiteros de Graus (Spain);

• Cech slovenskych gajdosov (Slovakia);

• Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire (Georgia)

See the booklet

From September 26 to September 30, 2022 the Tbilisi State Conservatory and the Georgian State Folklore Center will be holding the 11th Symposium on Traditional Polyphony. The symposium will take place at the Tbilisi State Conservatory, under the patronage of the President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth.

International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony of Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire and the International Centre for Georgian Folk Song are pleased to announce that the scholars working on the problems of polyphony are invited to participate in the 11^th International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, on 26–30 September, 2022, in Tbilisi, Georgia.

IRCTP published #29 bulletin (December, 2020) which is available at the website and Facebook page of the center.

The bilingual bulletin of the IRCTP provides the information on the performance and study of traditional music, as well as presents novelties from Georgia’s ethnomusicological life.