Gastcollege voor studenten Docent Muziek, Prins Claus Conservatorium, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, NL.

This project explores the potential for incorporating South African jazz and Armenian folk music into compositional forms. As someone with both South African and Armenian heritage, I felt drawn to this creative process as a means of expressing my cultural identity, hence the inspiration for this research. …

Slotreflecties voor het Pop en Jazz Platform van de AEC op Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Londen, VK, 17-18/2/2017

From the 1960s, in several Western European countries folk music revivals took place. In The Netherlands, the folk music revival was heavily inspired by the folk music revival movements in the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland, and later by the revivals in France and Flanders (Belgium) as …