Teachings, talks, and music for academic and broader audiences

Research presentations



Presenting at the Third Chatkhan Symposium, Abakan 2005.
Photo Galina B. Sytchenko

2012 Новые медиа – благо или угроза для хакасской музыки, культури, сообществи? [New Media – Benefit or threat for Khakas music, culture, community?], Shushenskoe Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Russian Federation (in Russian).

2012 Новые медиа - благо или угроза для хакасской музыки, культури, обществи? [New Media – Benefit or threat for Khakas music, culture, community?]. Хакасия 2012 Форум «Историко-культурное наследие как ресурс социокультурного развития» [Forum “Historical and cultural heritage as a resource for social and cultural development], Cheremushki, Khakassia, Russian Federation (in Russian).

2011 Invited lecture Новые тенденции в западной этномузыковедение [New tendencies in Western ethnomusicology], Kazakh National University of Arts, Astana, Kazakhstan (in Russian).

2011 Музыкальное выражение в пост-1991 Хакасии [Musical expression in post-1991 Khakassia]. Международная научно-практическая конференция “Идея независимости в (и) искусств. П рошлое и настоящее / The idea of ​​independence in/and the Arts. Past and Present",  Kazakh National University of Arts, Astana, Kazakhstan (in Russian).

2011 Передача музыки в кип-чоох [Music transmission in kip-chookh]. Международная научно-практическая конференция “Древние и современные народы Южной Сибири: язык, история, культура” посвященная 290-летию экспедиции Д. Г. Мессершмидта [International scientific conference ‘Ancient and modern peoples of Southern Siberia: language, history and culture’ dedicated to the 290th anniversary of D.G. Messerschmidt’s expedition], Abakan, Russian Federation (in Russian).

2011 Khakas music, musicians, and new media. 41st ICTM World Conference, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada.

2010 Преобразовать трауре в музыке: Хакасский сыыт [Making mourning into music: the Khakas sïït lament]. IV Международный симпозиум по чатханной музыке и горловому пению-хай “Чатхан: история и современность” [4th International Symposium about chatkhan music and throat singing- khay ‘Chatkhan: History and Present’], Abakan, Russian Federation (in Russian).

2010 Making mourning into music: the Khakas sııt lament. 2nd Meeting of the ICTM Study Group on the Music of the Turkic-speaking World, Berlin, Germany.

2007 Khakas ways of passing down music. 40th ICTM World Conference, Vienna, Austria.

2006 How to transmit the Khakas way? 8th CDIME Conference ‘Moving On’, World Music and Dance Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2006 Oral transmission in the music of Siberian Turks: How to become a Khakas storyteller. International Workshop and Conference ‘Music of the Turkic-speaking world: Performance and the master-apprentice system of oral transmission’, SOAS, London, United Kingdom.

2005 Guest lecture ‘Khakas music-making before, during, and after the Soviet era’, for Anthropology of Music course, Leiden University, 2005.

2005 Two-week intensive course Музыка как межкультурная коммуникация [Music as intercultural communication], Institute of Arts, Khakassia State University, Abakan, Russian Federation (in Russian).

2005 Khakas traditional conceptions of sound, music, and dance. II-й Международный симпозиум по чатханной музыке и горловому пению-хай “Чатхан: история и современность” [2nd international symposium on chatkhan music and throat singing – khay ‘Chatkhan: History and present’], Khakassia State University, Abakan, Russian Federation.

2005 Notions on ‘good’ music among Khakas musicians today. 21st European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, University of Cologne, Germany.

2005 Re-imagining an epic tradition in Khakassia. 38th ICTM World Conference, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

2005  Incorporating animism in urban stage musics in Khakassia. BFE/AHRB Conference ‘Music and Dance Performance: Cross-Cultural Approaches’, SOAS, London, United Kingdom.

2005 Opleving van animisme in de stadsmuziek van Chakassië [Revival of animism in Khakas urban music]. Arnold Bake Veldwerkdag, Tropentheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (in Dutch).

2003 The status of information by interviewing in Khakas music research. Seminar ‘Oral History in Practice’, CNWS, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

2001 Some thoughts about the study of the chatkhan in connection with the surrounding world. Международная научно-практическая конференция "Актуальные проблемы истории Саяно-Алтая и сопредельных территорий" [International scientific-practical conference on Actual Problems of the History of Sayan-Altai and its Neighbouring Regions], Khakas State University, Abakan, Russian Federation.

1999 Tsjatchanmuziek uit Chakassië [Chatkhan music from Khakassia]. KVNM Studiedag, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands (in Dutch).

1999 Einführung in die chakassische Musik [Introduction to Khakas music]. Department of Turkology, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany (in German).

1998 De Chakassische epostraditie [The Khakas epic tradition]. Nationale Turkologendag, Leiden University, The Netherlands (in Dutch).

1997 An introduction to the Khakas chatkhan box zither. 3rd CHIME Conference, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Introductions and workshops to Sayan-Altay and Central Asian performing arts



With Yulia Charkova at RASA, Utrecht 2007.
Photo Maksim Chapochnikov

2007 Introductions to Kazakh, Tuvan, and Khakas music at Echo’s uit de Steppen Festival at Zuiderpershuis, Antwerpen, Belgium, and Tropentheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2004 Nomadic vocal styles. Workshop on Karakalpak and Kyrgyz singing at Via Kaboul: Music from Central-Asia, Cultural Centre Flagey, Brussel, Belgium.

2003 Introduction to Khakas music concert, Wuppertal, Germany.

2002 Inspired by tradition. Workshop at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival The Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust, Washington, D.C., USA.

2002 Presentations of Khakas, Kyrgyz and Kazakh music at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival The Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust, Washington, D.C., USA.

2002 Introduction to Khakas music concert, Tropentheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Khakas music performances and workshops



Rounding up my apprentice period with a soloconcert backed by teachers
and friends, Abakan, September 9th, 1999. Photo anomymous.

1999 Performances of Khakas folk music (chatkhan, vocals, khay) within Ensemble Sabjïlar in Novostroyka, Chogharkhï Töö, Abakan, and Sayanogorsk, Khakassia, Russian Federation.

1998 Solo performances and workshops of Khakas folk music on chatkhan at Sommermusikfest, Mosenberg bei Kassel, Germany.

1997–1999 Solo performances of Khakas folk music on chatkhan in Amsterdam and surroundings, The Netherlands.

1996 Solo performance of Khakas folk music on chatkhan, I-й Международный симпозиум по чатханной музыке и горловому пению-хай “Чатхан: история и современность” [1st International symposium on chatkhan music and throat singing – khay ‘Chatkhan: History and present’], Abakan, Khakassia, Russian Federation.

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