The Ninth International Conference on Music and Minimalism
28 May – 2 June 2024
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Organizers:
Society for Minimalist Music - Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) - Institute of Musicology SASA - in collaboration with the Belgrade Festivals’ Centre (CEBEF)
Keynote speakers:
Kevin Karnes, Emory University, United States
Author of Sounds Beyond: Arvo Pärt and the 1970s Soviet Underground (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa (Oxford University Press, 2017), http://music.emory.edu/home/people/biography/karnes-kevin-c..html
Christophe Levaux, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Author of We Have Always Been Minimalists: The Construction and Triumph of a Musical Style (University of California Press, 2020), https://uniroma.academia.edu/ChristopheLevaux
Elena Dubinets, London Philharmonic Orchestra, United Kingdom
Author of Russian Composers Abroad: How They Left, Stayed, Returned (Indiana University Press, 2021), https://lpo.org.uk/people/elena-dubinets/
The Ninth Biennial International Conference on Music and Minimalism MINIMALIST INTERSECTIONS takes place for the first time in Southeast Europe, in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. This is a unique opportunity to present to the international scientific public the achievements of musical minimalism and its offshoots (such as postminimalism, new simplicity, new classicism, or holy minimalism) in countries outside the Anglo-American and Western European 'mainstream' — including the countries of the Central, Eastern, Southern and Northern Europe, but also Japan, Brazil, and Argentina. In addition to the significant expansion of the geographical scope of research and the inclusion of various global musical practices that preceded and influenced the genesis and development of musical minimalism, the conference will encourage the study of minimalist music in the context of its various intersections with electronic music, ambient music, performance, sound installations, applied music for film, theater, television and video games. The conference program also includes works dealing with the dialectical relationship between minimalism and other styles of the 20th and 21st centuries, including new complexity and spectralism.
The conference is organized by the International Society for Minimalist Music based in Bangor, Wales (United Kingdom), the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Institute of Musicology SASA, in cooperation with the Belgrade Festivals Center (CEBEF), the Cultural Center "Parobrod" and the Music School "Mokranjac" from Belgrade.
The conference, which will last from 28 May to 2 June 2024, comprises fifteen panels, three plenary talks, five lecture recitals, one roundtable, five concerts, as well as an exhibition and screening of a documentary film at the Cultural Center "Parobrod".
The conference and all accompanying events are financially supported by the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, the Secretariat for Culture of the City of Belgrade, the Organization of Music Authors of Serbia SOKOJ, European Commission - program Erasmus+, and Emory University from Atlanta, USA.
Conference fee: €80 for affiliated scholars, €60 for independent researchers, €40 for students. The conference fee includes free entry to all concerts organized during the conference:
Wednesday, 29 May 2024: Ensemble for Different New Music (formed in 1977, the first ensemble in Serbia, then Yugoslavia, specializing in minimalist music)
Thursday, 30 May 2024: Piano duos Jeroen and Sandra van Veen and LP Duo (Sonja Lončar and Andrija Pavlović) (music by Simeon ten Holt)
Friday, 31 May 2024: Pneuma Quartet (new minimalist music in Serbia)
Saturday, 1 June 2024: Vladimir Milošević, piano, and Nemanja Stanković, cello (music by Philip Glass)
Sunday, 2 June 2024: Concert by Miloš Raičković
Program Committee
Maarten Beirens, President of the Society for Minimalist Music, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ex officio
Svetislav Božić, Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA), ex officio
Laura Emmery, Emory University, United States
Ulli Götte, Zentrum für Interkulturelle Musik e. V., Kassel, Germany
Marija Maglov, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Ivana Medić, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia, Chair
Ivana Miladinović Prica, Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
Jelena Novak, CESEM, Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal
Kerry O’Brien, Cornish College of the Arts, United States
John Pymm, Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Katarina Tomašević, Director of the Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Organizing Committee
Miloš Bralović, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Laura Emmery, Emory University, Atlanta, United States
Marija Hauk, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Aleksandra Hreljac, Department for International Collaboration, SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Marija Maglov, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Ivana Medić, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Jelena Novak, CESEM, Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal
Monika Novaković, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Stefan Savić, Institute of Musicology SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
Contact: belgrademinimalism2024@gmail.com
