The Conference will be held at the European University Cyprus in Nicosia on the 6th, 7th and 8th of May 2016. Conductors, music educators and researchers are invited to attend the Conference and submit their applications for a wide range of presentations. The deadline for the submission of all abstracts is February 10th, 2016.

On the occasion of the religious holiday of the Synaxis of the Three Hierarchs it will be celebrated a liturgy at the Holy Apostle Jason and Sosipater Church located in Anemomilos, Corfu Town, at 8:00 a.m., with the participation of the students and professors of the MA with specialization in Byzantine Music from the Department of Music Studies, Faculty of Music and Audiovisual Arts, Ionian (...)

In the jubilee year of the University of mdw - Music and Performing Arts Vienna 2017, the International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition will see young string quartets and piano trios from all over the world converge on Vienna to compete artistically for the seventh time. The online-application starts on 1 February 2016. Application Deadline: 1 September 2016.

The 8th International Competition “Giovani Musicisti - Città di Treviso” is held by the music Academy “Studio Musica” of Treviso in Academy with the town of Treviso, the Veneto region and the province of Treviso. The competition is dedicated to developing the artistic promise of talented young musicians through international cultural exchanges and promotion of the Treviso area for culture and tourism.

The congress (IBCYL-2016) will be held in Trakya university Balkan Congress Centre between 4-7 May, 2016. The theme of the congress is determined as “The Child and Youth Literature for the Culture of Peace”.

The 3rd Emil Gilels Piano Festival will be holding masterclasses for the participation of twelve young pianists from around the world. These will be given by Robert Levin, Lilya Zilberstein and Dimitri Bashkirov. Applicants are kindly requested to send their application form, photograph, payment confirmation for the application fee as well as a recording (DVD or CD) by the 31st of December 2015.

Βridging curriculum and children’s musicking: Recruiting South African children’s multimodal musical games as resources for musical education by Dr Susan Harrop-Allin, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa on Monday 23rd November 2015 at 6.30 p.m.

Applications open from November 15, 2015 to February 8, 2016.

Omega is a “strategic partnership” financed by the European Commission and coordinated by Yaşar University of Izmir. Its subject is the employability of arts graduates. In the course of the partnership 30 students and 10-15 teachers from the following European institutions will take part in an ‘intensive pilot course’ on Art and Music Students in Business. Deadline: 14 NOVEMBER 2015.

Department of Music Studies: AQUA JAZZ in Corfu, November 11th to 14th, 2015.

Clinical Group Improvisation in Music Therapy: How does it work? Presentation and Open Workshop Come to celebrate with us the 2nd European Music Therapy Day Presentation/Facilitation: Ioanna Etmektsoglou, Music Therapist, Assistant Professor in Psychology of Music, Ionian University, Departmet of Music SUNDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2015 UNIVERSITY MUSIC BUILDING Old Fortress, Corfu 17:00 – 19:00 FREE (...)

The website welcome2ionio is online for new students 2015-2016.

Dimos Dimitriadis Quartet, with the supprt of HFC-Odessa, will participate in Odessa Jazz Fest 2015. The quartet will perform September 19, 2015 at 19:00 in the Grand Hall of Odessa Philharmonic Society (15 Bunina Street).

The Postgraduate Programme of "Creative Writing" of the University of Western Macedonia in cooperation with the Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology as weel as the Regional Directorate of Primary andSecondary Education of the Ionian Islands are glad to announce the organisation of the 2nd International Conference on "Creative Writing" from October, 1st to October 4th, 2015, in Corfu, Ionian University.

Mediterranean MusiChild Festival Review

Summer vacation period for the year 2015 lasts from August 3rd to August 28th, 2015.

As part of the Summer Music Academy 2015, this Saturday, July 18th at 22:30, a representation of the work: architectural projection mapping Variations on Construction" will take place at St. George's Church inside the Old Fortress of Corfu.

International Summer Music Academymusic.ionio.gr/academy   First International Vocal Masterclasses   29/6-4/7/15, Corfu Summer Academy in Choral Conducting 2015   1-7/7/15, Corfu Summer Music Academy: MusiChild [6-11/7/2015]   6-11/7/2015, Corfu DMS: Corfu Deep Strings Summer Academy   13-17/7/15, Corfu (...)

The Department of Music Studies of the Ionian University loses one of its most prominent honorary doctorate.

The Annual Meeting for Internatinal Relations Coordinators 2015 will take place at the Ionian University of Corfu in the framework of the AEC Project FULL SCORE.

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts (AVARTS) and the Department of Music Studies (Electroacoustic Music Research and Applications Lab, EPHMEE) of the Ionian University once again jointly organize the 9th annual Festival of Audiovisual Arts.