2008: | Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Albania. |
2004: | Professor at Academy of Arts, Tirana, ALBANIA in composition and ethnomusicology. |
2000: |
Associate Professor at Academy of Arts, Tirana, ALBANIA in composition and ethnomusicology. |
1996: |
Postdoctoral studies in the Department of Musical Studies, University of Athens, GREECE. |
1994-1995: |
Postgraduate study in composition under the guidance of Prof. Wolfgang Hufschmidt in Folkwang Hochschule, Essen, GERMANY. |
1994: |
Doctor in ethnomusicology at Academy of Arts, Tirana, ALBANIA. |
1983-1987: |
University Diploma on Composition directed by Prof. Kozma Lara. |
1978-1982: |
Violin and musical theory studies at the “Tefta Tashko Koço” school of music, Korçë. |
Teaching experience and artistic direction
2010: |
Member of the National Council of Intangible Cultural Heritage-KKTKSH, Ministry of Culture. |
2005-2008: |
Member of National Council of Archive-KLA, General Directory of Archive. |
2003-2007: |
Member of scientific council of Institute of Folk Culture, Academy of Sciences. |
2001-present: |
Director of the Dept for Cultural Heritage in the Ministry of Culture of Albania. |
1997-1999: |
General Director at the National Opera and Balley Theatre-Tirana. |
1991-present: |
Prof. at Faculty of Music, Academy of Arts, Tirana. Course taught: (1) Ethnomusicology (2) Introduction to Albanian Ethnomusicology issues and (3) Composition. |
1988-1991: |
Music director at the cultural palace “Naim Frashëri” in Përmet. |
2001-2005: | Member of the bord of the Art-Culture at the SOROS foundation. |
1999-present: |
Member of IOF (The international organization of folk art), Austri. |
1998-present: |
Member of SEM (the society for ethnomusicology), USA. |
1997-present: |
Member of GEMA-Germany. |
1997: |
Founder of international competition “Ton de Leeuw” for new music.Tirana. |
1995: |
Founder of Albanian section of “The Rilm Abstract Literature of Music”. New York. |
1995-present: |
President of the “Albanian Music Council”, member of International Music Council. (IMC) |
1993: |
Founder of association “The New Albanian Music”, member of “European Conference of Promoters of New Music”. |
2010: |
"Honorary fellow of the city of Vlora", from Vlora Municipality. |
2003: |
"Honorary fellow of the Gjirokastra region", from the region council of Gjirokastra. |
2000-2001: |
Artistic Director of the “Maratona of folk songs” in Tv KLAN. |
1999-present: |
Collaborator of the “PAYE”-England. |
1998: |
Supervisor on the book bibliography “Music in Albania”. |
1997-present: |
Supervisor in the production on traditional music documentary films for Albanian television. |
1996-present: |
Collaborator of radio programs on Albanian traditional music. |
1994,1995: |
Collaborator of the “Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education” (CIRCME) Australia. |
1993-present: |
Collaborator of the Albanian newspaper “Drita”, literature magazine, in charge of the music review and of articles on Albanian musical issues. |
Participation in Festivals/Conferences/Symposia/Workshops
2002: | Participant in the congress “Cultural diversity and fight against racism and ksenofobia”, Athens, Greece. |
2001: |
Participant at the international music competition for composers “Dimitri Mitropoulos”. Athens 2001. |
1999: |
Lector at the “First international meeting of folk polyphony”, Delvinaq-Greece, 6-9 August 1999 |
1999: |
Participant at the “Musica Nova”, Sofia-Bulgaria. |
1998: |
Participant at the European conference of the “Promoters of New Music”, Schwaz / Tirol-Austria, 29-31 August 1998. |
1998: |
Participant at the “Reydale festival 98”, July, England. |
1998: |
Participant at the music scientific conference “Music analysis and cognitive research on music tradition”. Rome-Italy, 28-30 May 1998. |
1997: |
Participant at the 4th Mediterranean Music Conference”, May, Palermo- Italy. |
1995: |
Participant and lector at the “Interbalkanian Congress of Music”. Thesaloniki, Greece. |
1992,1994: |
Participant at the “International Composers Workshop”, Amsterdam-Sofia. Composition lessons directed by Ton De Leeuw, Joji Youasa, Boris Christof. |
1992: |
Has delivered lectures and presented papers in the “First Balkanian Congress of Music”. Delphi, Greece etc. |
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