Conference Program and Abstracts of conference papers – International Scientific Conference of Students and Young Researchers “Issues of Musicology and Ethnology”

International Scientific Conference of Students and Young Researchers “Issues of Musicology and Ethnology”
9-10 June, 2025
The conference is dedicated to the memory of the famous Georgian musicologist, Professor Manana Andriadze

Conference Program

9 June

10:30 – Registration
10:45 – Welcoming Addresses

11:00 – Gvantsa Maisuradze. Folklore of Racha, Traditions and Problems. Giorgi Mtatsmindeli University of Chant. Bachelor, I course.
11:30 – Mariam Grigalashvili. “Now Release Your Servant” – Historical and Theoretical Aspects.  Giorgi Mtatsmindeli University of Chant. Master’s student, II course.
12:00 – Elene Buishvili. Genre-Stylistic Innovations in Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Suite in G Major/Minor.  Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Bachelor. II course
12:30 –  Nino Tavadze Thematic Development in Polyphonic Variations of the Baroque Period (Based on J.S. Bach’s Passacaglia in C Minor. Tbilisi State Conservatoire.   Bachelor.  III course

Break: 13:00-13:30

13:30 – Elene Eliozishvili . “Archetypal Narratives in Genre Models of Rock Opera”. Tbilisi State Conservatoire. Master’s student, II course.
14:00 – Tara Saiyah İran – Sound Smuggling: Covert Musical Practices and Forbidden Listening Cultures in Post-Revolutionary Iran. Undergraduate Student, 2nd Year Department of Musicology, State Conservatory Anadolu University, Turkey.
14:30 – An Analysis of the Relationship Between the Opera ‘Kerem’ and Turkish Music in a Socio-Political Context. Tefik Tunca Cnder Doctoral (PHD) Student, Yildiz Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences Music and Performance Arts Programe.
BEKİR ŞAHİN BALOĞLU – Asst. Prof. Yildiz Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences Music and Performance Arts Programe.
15:00 – Baia Zhuzhunadze – For the Interdisciplinary research Issue of Meskhetian Musical Dialect.  Researcher at the International Research Center for Traditional Polyphony of Tbilisi State Conservatoire.

10 June

11:00  – Tamar Tsulukidze. Forms of “Alleluia” Participation in Worship.  The University of Chant. Master’s student. II course.
11:30 – Zurab Tskrialashvili. About One of Giorgi Svanidze’s Expeditions. Researcher, Choirmaster/Regent.
12:00 – Teona Benashvili. “Keba Kebulta” (Praise of the Praised) – Forgotten Hymns in the Georgian Chant Tradition. Giorgi Mtatsmindeli University of Chant. Master of Church Musicology.
12:30 – Giorgi Abramishvili. Connections Between 19th-20th Century Musical Manuscripts
and 10th-11th Century Hymnographic Collections. Giorgi Mtatsmindeli University of Chant.
Master of Church Musicology
13:00 – Nun Nino Samkharadze. In Search of Convergence and Divergence
(Based on the “Shekvetiliani” and the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete). Tbilisi State Conservatoire. PHD Student
13:30 – Ekaterine Kazarashvili. Christmas Hymns in the Eastern Georgian Chant Tradition. Tbilisi State Conservatoire. PHD Student.

14:00 –  END OF THE CONFERENCE.

Conference Program – PDF
Abstracts of conference papers – PDF