Between July 23-30, 2023, in Kikinda, in a special atmosphere, as the organizers have accustomed us, the members of the Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble of Traditional Music of the Faculty of Music and Theater from Timișoara participate as special guests of the FENOK International Festival of Folk Orchestras (22nd edition, Kikinda, Serbia). Prof. univ. habil. dr. Lucian Emil Roșca, as the initiator and coordinator of the project, selected and prepared, together with the entire team this year, a varied musical-folkloric program.
The participation is achieved for the third consecutive year through the organizational measures to which the Association for Banățean Culture. In 2022, the association signed the International Cooperation and Cultural Exchange Agreement with the Academic Society for the preservation of the "Gusle" music from Kikinda, which dates back to its establishment in 1878, with an uninterrupted activity, led by director Zoran Petrovici for over twenty years.
The teaching staff, PhD students and students from the Musical Folklore disciplines, who work within the Faculty of Music and Theater and the Doctoral School of Music and Theater from the University of West Timișoara, together with the Orchestra of the Academic Society for Music Cherishing GUSLE Kikinda (Academic Society for Music Cherishing GUSLE Kikinda) will perform, on July 27 and 28, during the FENOK International Festival, part of EtnoKamp, two extraordinary concerts with a premiere instrumental and vocal program. The musical program is selected by prof.univ.habil.dr. Lucian Emil Roșca and includes songs and instrumental melodies from all ethnographic areas of Romania. During this period, in addition to the repertory required for the concerts, lectures, masterclasses and workshops will be held in an academic atmosphere.
The contribution to the preparation of the repertoire goes again this year to cda.dr. Lavinius Nikolajević, from the discipline of Traditional Wind Instruments, who will give a special recital from the old repertoire, taken from Marin Chisăr's rhapsody, on caval, flute and clarinet. The orchestration and traditional instrumental arrangement is done by cda.drd. Adrian Balla, who will also be the conductor of the orchestras gathered in the joint concert. Vocal training cda.dr.Adrian Călin Boba, with the participation of students Alexandra Acs, Leonid Ardeljan, Ștefan Brădescu, Răzvan Toma and Prof. Claudiu Popa.
The date of July 28 is reserved for the scientific meeting, where specialists from the entire Balkan space will meet. The UVT will give lectures:
Lucian Emil Roșca, Prof. univ. dr. – West University of Timisoara
Aromanian musical folklore – morphological peculiarities and expressive sonorities
Aromanian folk music – morphological particularities and expressive sonorities
Similar folklore music – morphological features and expressive sounds
Lavinius Nikolajević Cda.dr. – West University of Timisoara
The ethno-folkloric areas of Romania - musical examples played at Fluier si Caval
The ethno-folkloric areas of Romania – musical examples played at Whistle and Kaval
Ethno-folklorna region of Romania - musical primers performed in Fruli and Kavalu)
Ethno-folklorna region of Romania - musical primers performed in Fruli and Kavalu)
Adrian Călin Boba, Cda.dr. – West University of Timisoara
Banat folk band - history and evolution
The Folk Brass Orchestra in Banat - history and evolution
Narodna banatska fanfara - history and evolution
Adrian Balla, Cda.drd. – West University of Timisoara
The folk music repertoire from Banat - characteristics of possible assimilations
Folk musical repertoire from Banat - characteristics of possible assimilations
Repertoire narodne muzike iz Banata - characteristics of possible assimilation)
The Kikinda Etnokamp was born in 2002 at the initiative of the members of the Academic Society for the Preservation of Music "Gusle", the oldest musical Society in the territory of the Republic of Serbia. The Etnokamp aims, since its foundation, to represent a meeting center for Ethnomusicology specialists from the Music Academies of Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Poland, Hungary and the entire Balkan area.
Within the Etnokamp, which brings together specialists in the field of ethnomusicology, choreology, ethnology, vocal-instrumental music and anthropology, the FENOK Festival is also held, where Academic Instrumental and Vocal Ensembles from the Balkans, made up of students and teaching staff, participate. This project aims to revitalize the intangible cultural heritage, and the participants will be represented by students from the Music Academies in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Banja Luka, but also from Turkey, Romania being represented again this year by the Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble of Traditional Music of the Faculty of Music and Theater in Timișoara.
The participants will benefit from specialized courses supported by professionals in the field of ethnomusicology, a project coordinated by the ethnomusicologist Lucian Emil Roșca. The initiative to maintain and support such meetings has a well-defined role, that of creating links between current and future researchers in the field of ethnomusicology, of the knowledge of our folklore repertoires from the Balkan cultural space. The collaboration with director Zoran Petrovici has future organizational directions, established immediately after the end of the annual edition. Here is that after the participation and success achieved in May, through the concerts and lectures held at the Romanian Embassy in Tirana, then in the Academic plenary of the University of Arts in Tirana, Albania, but also in Tetova, North Macedonia, as well as after the documentation and field research carried out in the Aromanian communities in Albania, not in the last context - the two musical universities going to sign partnerships with the University of West in Timișoara - we therefore identify, also on this cultural and university route, the opportunity to expand cooperation for the benefit of UVT, for teachers and students from all levels of studies, regardless of specialization. What will take place at Kikinda, this year, is in fact our confirmation on an international level, as an academic ensemble that preserves real interpretive values, and our joint concert is a cultural celebration considered as a tradition of good practices and for the future projects that we will prepare in the next period.
INFO: Lucian Emil Roșca (rosca.lucian@e-uvt.ro) and Adrian Boba, West University of Timișoara, Association for Banățean Culture
