| November 13-16 1997. Folk Arts Centre, Kaustinen, Finland Organizers: Folk Music Institute/Folk Arts Centre, Kaustinen Tampere University, Department of Ethnomusicology, Tampere Kantele Association, Tampere Supported by: Ministry of Education, Finland Organizing Committee in Finland Hannu Saha (chair) Timo Leisiö Ismo Sopanen |
The conference was hosted by the Folk Music Institute/Folk Arts Centre, Tampere University/Department of Folk Tradition and the Kantele Association of Finland. The place for the happening is the new Folk Arts Centre. During the conference there was a four day seminar (in the mornings and afternoons), exhibitions and concerts (in the evenings). All kinds of concerts, including historical and contemporary music were be held during the conference. E.g., in November 15 there was be the first public performance and world premiere of the Kantele Concerto composed by Pekka Jalkanen. It was played by Ritva Koistinen, concert kantele, and the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Juha Kangas. |
| Timo Leisiö | Lyre and Zither in the Baltic Sea Area. |
| Igor Tõnurist | Estonian Kannel as an Instrument of the Russian Gusli Tradition. |
| Igor Tõnurist | Vladimir Povetkin about New Finds of the Ancient Gusli-Kantele and Other String Instruments in Old Novgorod. |
| Kari Dahlblom | Osip Smolenski - the Renovator of Gusli |
| Joyce Hakala | Memento of Finland: from start to finish. |
| Ain Haas | The Social Context of Kannel Traditions among Estonians and Estonian-Americans. |
| Andres Peekna | Carved Kannel Making among Estonians and Latvians in America. |
| Nicholay Zhoukov & Vladimir Maraev | Some Aspects of Traditional Carved Kantele Building. |
| Carl Rahkonen | The Kantele and Shamanism Reconsidered. |
| Valdis Muktupavels | Problems of the Survival of Traditional Kokles Playing Styles in Latvia. |
| Hannu Saha | Style and the Process of Variation in Folk Music. |
| Irina Semakova, paper read by Anna Kalaberda | Problem of Vepsian Kantele. |
| Matti Kontio | Tuning Systems and Kantele. |
| Arja Kastinen & Rauno Nieminen | A Research Project on Kantele Acoustics. |
| Andrew Cronshaw | Kantele meets Madagascan marovany: romance ensues and the child, Morovantele (2 ½ yrs) is thriving |
| Pekka Jalkanen | In the Wellsprings of My Kantele Concerto. |
| Timo Väänänen | The Compositions of Martti Pokela. |
| Minna Raskinen | Recreation of a Composition Using Improvisation - A Teaching Method. |
| Tuule Kann | Various Options for Learning to Play Kannel in Contemporary Estonia. |
| Irisa Priedite | The Strings Instruments of the Eastern Latvia. The Tradition and Today. |
| Igor Matsievsky | Baltic Psaltery in the Context of Instrumental Music: Some Aspects. |
| Anna Kalaberda | Kantele in the Context of Between-Ethnical Cultural Communication of Finno-Ugric and Neighbour Peoples and Today. |
| Ismo Sopanen | The Activities of the Kantele Association in Finland. |
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