Bishkek, December 5 / Kabar /. The Tashkent-based contemporary music ensemble Omnibus has teamed up with Bishkek’s own music performance collective Ustatshakirt Plus to organize a first-of-a-kind workshop-seminar for young performers and composers Academy of Contemporary Music.
During the week-long event, forty students drawn from Bishkek music schools and institutes are participating in intensive practical music classes and open performances, listening to lectures, and watching documentaries about contemporary music and musicians. The aim of the workshop-seminar is to introduce young and talented musicians from Bishkek to new trends in contemporary music, offer artistic and technical critique to young composers, and reflect on the role of tradition-based music in contemporary music culture.
The Omnibus-Ustatshakirt Plus workshop-seminar initiative is being supported by the Aga Khan Music Initiative, a program of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, and CEC ArtsLink, a New York-based nongovernmental organization.
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