Music Projects

Compiler Emre Dayioglu, who traveled from village to village in Turkey in order to record the instruments and music masters of folk music that has sunk into oblivion, and Petra Nachtmanova, who is interested in Anatolian folk music and the development of this music, especially around the concept of identity in the diaspora have participated […]

Contemporary Glass Exhibition. [International Year of Glass | UNESCO 2022] Individual artistic exhibition by Nelson Figueiredo, under the theme “Falsified Tamagotchi”. In the International Year of Glass, we celebrate the role that glass plays in society. In this exhibition we praise its excellence as an artistic support, its tradition in the Leiria region and impact […]

The Leiria Creative City of Music – UNESCO in partnership with the Leiria Jazz Association and the Philharmonic Association of the Council of Leiria announces the 1st Edition of the International Leiria Composition Contest in the Jazz and Scholar Music categories. Learn more: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l1w75mwx2td92q9/regulamento_final_3.pdf?dl=0

With this competition, songwriters and composers were encouraged to produce more qualified works. In this way, the UCCN Mission Statement aims to “strengthen the creation, production, distribution and dissemination of cultural activities, goods and services”, “to develop centers of creativity and innovation and expand opportunities for creatives and professionals in the cultural sector” and “particularly […]

The 1st edition of 𝐋𝐈𝐙𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐒 – 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐬 will be held in Leiria, between August 14th and 19th The festival, organized under the artistic direction of the Ensemble de Metais de Leiria, in partnership with the Leiria Philharmonic Association and the Domingos Sequeira Secondary School, combines a strong training component with a series of […]

The festival was held by the participation of different groups of Daf players throughout Iran and some bands from Kurdistan of Iraq and Afghanistan in two ranges of adults and adolescents from 23rd to 25th July 2022, in the Cinema Bahman of Sanandaj. The festival’s referees included five masters of music in Iran, Bizhan Kamkar, […]

Under the curation of Rita Nabais, the project brings together a panel of guests connected to music through the word: music journalists, authors of books about Portuguese music. The action is inserted in the premise of the Creative City of Music, in line with respective principles that identify it: one of them focuses Music for […]

A Blog from Kevin McManus, Head of Liverpool UNESCO City of Music, about World Music Day in the city of Liverpool. World Music Day (or Fête de la musique) is celebrated every year on 21st June.  If you haven’t heard of it before, it is the simple but brilliant concept of having a day that […]

World Music Day 2022 in Sanandaj, the creative city of music in UNESCO, has been celebrated.   The event was held by the cooperation of governmental, public, and social sectors. Barin Music Institute’s, music teachers and students of vilon played various international famouse of music tracks. The students of vilon along with their parents participated […]