The process of registration and selection of the scientists and ensembles participating in the 9th International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony (October 30-3 November) has ended!

By the decision of the Symposium Program Committee 45 scientists (30 scholars from 15 countries of the world and 15 from Georgia, as well as British producer Dan Shutt with his documentary about Albanian Iso-Polyphony) have been accepted to participate in the symposium in various formats.

The Symposium offers particularly diverse concert program including concerts of urban music, Georgian fusion and traditional music, with the participation of traditional music ensembles from 7 countries of the world.

In January 16 head of the International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony, Rusudan Tsurtsumia and specialist of the center, Teona lomsadze read lecture about “Music in Tbilisi – past and present“. lecture was held at the Zakaria Paliashvili museum.

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Specialist of IRCTP and doctoral student of ethnomusicology at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Teona Lomsadze won PhD grant of Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation. According to the grant, she will realize several scientific activities, including research visits to the world’s famous ethnomusicologists (Bruno Nettl, Jane Sugarman, Caroline Bithell, Martin Stokes) and presenting individual paper at the musicological conference City University of New York (CUNY).

We would like to congratulate Teona and wish her farther success in her scientific career!

On September 5-9, the 33^rd European Seminar in Ethnomusicology took place in Tbilisi, Georgia. The conference was hosted by the International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony at Tbilisi State Conservatoire, which is very experienced in holding International Symposia on Traditional Polyphony since 2002.