International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance
A Non-Governmental Organization in Formal Consultative Relations with UNESCO
PROGRAMME 4th Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Global History of Music and Dance, 17-22 September 2025, the Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany
PROGRAMME
4th Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Global History of Music and Dance, 17-22 September 2025, the Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany
A Magnifying Glass on Music History:
Lives and Performances Through Biographies
https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/
Day I: September 18, Thursday
8:30 Registration
9:00 Opening
Session 1A
9:30 Mao Yue: Wu Quanxi and the Transformation of the Wu Family’s Guchui Ensemble
9:55 Xiao Mei: Sanubar Tursun and her Global Moments
10:20 Xu Xin: Bryn Bayar and the Mongolian Huur in China
10:45 Gisa Jähnichen: The Life of Rio Reiser and his Contributions to another German Music History
11:10-Coffee Break
Session 1B
11:40-12:25 Keynote Speaker: Jontathan P. Stock
12:25-13:25 Lunch
Session 1C
13:25 Helen Rees: From Oral History to Documentary Film to Biographical Monograph: Three Stages in Telling a Musical Life Story
13:50 Xing Yuan:Shen Zhengguo: Scholar of Organology Who Wields Both the Axe and the Pen
14:15 Chinthaka P. Meddegoda: Sumanadasa Meddegoda, Sri Lanka, and his Musical Life
14:40 Kanykei Mukhtarova: Hussein Mukhtarov (1938-2001): The Life and Musical Legacy of a Kyrgyz-Dungan Opera Singer in Soviet Kyrgyzstan
15:05 Coffee Break
Session 1D
15:35 Razia Sultanova: Sherali Jurayev: Music, Censorship, and Cultural Resilience in Uzbekistan
16:00 Iva Nenić: Herstories Within Histories’: Biographical Perspectives on Female Musicians in Serbian Traditional Folk Music
16:25 Fattakh Khaligzade: Suleyman-bey Mansurov, Mugham Performer, Connoisseur and Writer
16:50 Sydney Hutchinson: Global Pop and the Eastern Bloc: Rene Dubianski’s Life and Music
17:15 Excursion: Visiting museums on the Museum Island
Day II: September 19, Friday
Day of Central Asia
Session 2A
9:00 Ayaulym Zhumkenova: Bolat Sarybayev in Kazakh Musical Culture: Life and Legacy
9:25 Sadzhana Murzaliyeva: Fatima Balgayeva at 100: Celebrating the Legacy of a Kobyz Virtuoso and Educator in Kazakhstan
9:50 Rustem Nurkenov: Bazaraly Muptkeyev’s Scholarship
10:15 Coffee Break
Session 2B
10:45 Baikuatova Akmaral Kmanbekovna and Nurtaza Raushan Sabyrzhanovna:
Korkyt-Ata: Reconstructing the Biography of a Legendary Turkic Figure
11:10 Galiya Akparova: Kenes Duisekeyev: Creative Heritage and Significance in Kazakh Musical Culture
11:35 Gulnar Alpeissova: The Scientific Work of B.I.Karakulov and Contemporary Ethnomusicology in Kazakhstan
12:00 Gulnara Kuzbakova: Adil Bestybayev: Music Transcending Time and Borders
12:25-13:25 Lunch
Session 2C
13:25 Dossanova Alma: Bukhar-zhyrau: Guardian of Kazakh Musical and Poetic Heritage
13:50 Kanatova A.R.: The Story of a Kui Performer
14.15 Shoyista Ganikhanova: Traditional and Modern Music of Uzbekistan in the Mirror of Yunus Rajabi’s Creative Biography
14:40 Elnora Mamadjanova: Victor Uspensky: Activity and its Meaning
15:05 Dilyara Islyamova: The significance of the piano creativity by Nazib Zhuganov in the hermeneutics of national and pan-national
15:30 Coffee Break
Session 2D: Panel Discussion on ‘Dombra Music of Kazakhs in Names and Biographies’ (Online)
16:00 Saule Utegalieva: Musical Creativity of Shamsheden Sharipov as a Representative of the Dombra Traditions of Northwestern Kazakhstan
16:25 Assel Alina: Toka Shonmanuly: Personality and Musical Creativity
16:50 Bayan Igilik Kaldybekkyzy:The Creativity of Kuishi Kasimbai Kusainuly in the Context of the Traditional Dombra music of XUAR (China) Kazakhs
17:15 Study Group’s Business Meeting
18:00 Concert of Kazakh Traditional Music, the Ethnological Museum
Day III: September 20, Saturday
Session 3A
9:00 Noura Chelly: Popular Music in the ‘Kerkennah’ Islands Through the Artistic Experience of ‘Ali Warda’
9:25 Jared Holton: The Musical Legacy of Shaykh al -`Afrit.
9:50 Ghassan Azaiez: Mediterranean Voices: Hnia Ashour and the Living Memory of Island Women’s Songs
10:15 Coffee Break
Session 3B
10:45-11:30 Keynote Speaker - Albrecht Wiedmann
11:30 Sergio Bonanzinga Micro-Panel: Sicily and the World Biographical Memoirs of Traditional Performers in Sicily
11:55 Domenico Staiti: Antonino Mento "Sciuni": Tradition, Storytelling, and Music Across Borders
12:20-13:20 Lunch
Session 3C
13:20 Yi Chieh Lai: Being Home vs. On the Way: Personal Ukulele Journeys in the Modern Globalized World
13:45 Pratibha: Resurrecting Haryanvi Folk Tradition Through Visual Media: Revival of Cultural Legacy of Saang Through the Biographical Narrative of Dada Lakhmi
14:10 Mohamed Haseeb N and Tanya Aktas: Forgotten Name and Forgotten Past: Rereading the Legacy of Mappila Mahakavi Moinkutty Vaidyar
14:35 Rumiana Margaritova: Dimitar Dinev and His Shadowed Marks on Folk Music in Socialist Bulgaria
15:00 Ryoto Akiyama: The Biography of Hans Hickmann and His Collection: Revisiting the Legacy of Comparative Musicology
15:25 Coffee Break
Session 3D
15:55 Khurmatullina Rezeda: Folklore Suite by Rafael Belyalov
16:20 Galina Sychenko: The Problem of Historicism of Oral Cultures: The Case of the Family-Clan Shamanic Tradition of the Chalkans
16:45 Zilia Imamutdinova Ural-Volga Sufi Sheikh Zainulla Rasulev and his role in spreading the practice of book reading among Muslims
17:10 Salvatore Morra: “Papa Heidi”, The an Behind the Microphone: A Tunisian Cultural Intimacy
17:35 Tour: Department of Ethnomusicology, the Ethnological Museum
Day IV: September 21, Sunday
Session 4A
9:00 Sylvia Bruni: Biography of a ‘Son of Malika’: Music, Spirits, and Identity in Meknes
9:25 Firdevs Mizan: Exploring the Fusion of Musical and Spiritual Identity: Ahmet Özhan
9:50 Sahereh Astaneh: Ahmad Pejman and the Evolution of Iranian Opera
10:15 Pankaj Rawat: Singing the Sacred: Life of a Jagariya in the Jagar Folk Music Traditions of Uttarakhand
10:40 Coffee Break
Session 4B
11:10 Ericka Verba: Violeta Parra’s Life and Work in Transnational Perspective (online)
11:35 Jasmina Talam: The Soundscape of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Perspective of Swedish Researchers
12:00 Maria Paizi Ntinou: Life and Work of Kyra Koula
12:25 Teona Rukhadze: Reviving Forgotten Voices: Beniamin Mikadze and Traditional Georgian Music
12:50-13:50 Lunch
Session 4C
13:50 Bernard Kleikamp: Three Chroniclers of Vietnamese Music and Drama around the Turn of the 19th to the 20th Century
14:15 Bisakha Goswami and Christian Poske: Reassessing the Contributions of Krishnadhan Bandyopadhyay and Kshetramohan Goswami to Indian Musicology
14:40 Bernhard Bleibinger: The Side Effects of Strange Incidents and the Biographies of the Others: Untold and Neglected Stories Behind Biographies of Music Researchers
15:05 Linda Cimardi: “The Sun is Setting”: Memories and Vision of a Life Between Madagascar and Slovenia
15:30 Coffee Break
Session 4D : Panel South Americas and others
16:00 Anja Brunner: Microhistories of Music: Biographies of Syrian Musicians After Forced Migration
16:25 Gabriel Silva Arruda: Ronaldo Coisa Nossa, a Black Samba Musician from Belo Horizonte
16:50 Florian Carl: More Than “Native Informants”: Gottfried Anipatse and Ludwig Adzaklo
17:15 Marziet Anzarokova: Umar Tkhabisimov in the Context of the Adyghe Musical Culture
17:40 Alexandra Iñigo Chua: Women, Passion and the Everyday Reveries: Romanticism in the Piano Works of Juan de Sahagun Hernandez (1881-1945), a Filipino Composer
18:05 The Closing Ceremony
Poster Presentations
Ostankovich Marianna Alexandrovna: “Kazakh composer Alexander Romanov and his role in the formation of a professional school of composition in South Kazakhstan.”
Amanda Hsieh: “Our tenor, Fujiwara Yoshie.”
Mark Forry: “Discovering the identities and life stories of Croatian, Serbian, and Roma tamburitza musicians on early Yugoslav commercial recordings, 1927-1957.”
Bengisu Koese and Hikmet Toker: “The Patronage of Music in the Ottoman Palace: The Case of Tanburi Büyük Osman Bey.”
Chairperson: Razia Sultanova (University of Cambridge)
Vice-Chair: Xiao Mei (Shanghai Conservatory of Music)
Secretary: Kanykei Mukhtarova (University of Central Asia)
Programme committee:
Gisa Jaehnichen (Shanghai Conservatory of Music)
Kanykei Mukhtarova (University of Central Asia)
Albrecht Wiedmann (Humboldt Forum)
Zhang Shan (Shanghai Conservatory of Music)
Sergio Bonanzinga (University of Palermo)
Razia Sultanova (University of Cambridge)