Concert
Aksenov Family Foundation and Baku Contemporary Music Society present CON TEMPO. Contemporary Music Here and Now — a concert featuring 7 world premieres and a public program, which will take place on December 10, 2024, at the International Mugham Center in Baku. CON TEMPO project creates a space for the exchange of experiences between musicians from different countries and generations, building cultural bridges and reflecting on the fate of contemporary art in a changing world. The concert by the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME) and N’Caged vocal group will showcase works by composers from Azerbaijan and new compositions by the laureates of the Aksenov Family Foundation project Russian Music 2.0 — Mark Buloshnikov, Said Gani, Turkar Gasimzada, Oleg Krokhalev, Daria Maminova, Marina Poleukhina, and Alexey Sysoev. The public program will bring together a series of masterclasses, round tables and talks featuring leading composers, music producers, and musicologists from both countries.
Public programme
The educational programme of the СON TEMPO project is a series of public events designed to introduce the listeners of the concertinto the context of current artistic and cultural processes reflected in the contemporary academic music of the two countries - Russia and Azerbaijan.
The partner of the public programme will be the Museum Centre of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan, whose assembly hall will host presentations by music historians, composers, members of the expert council of the CON TEMPO project, as well as its founders.
The first panel will discuss the idea of the project initiated by the Aksenov Family Foundation five years ago, as well as its artistic, institutional, social and global cultural results to date.