Project Result: FRAMEWORK for ONLINE DATABASE of BAGPIPERS in EUROPE Inputs from Belgium, Croatia, Poland and Slovakia

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Programme: Erasmus + Key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices Action: Strategic Partnerships Field: Strategic Partnerships for adult education

PROJECT TITLE: EUROPEAN BAGPIPE EDUCATIONAL FORUM – building EU methodology for preservation, playing and building of traditional bagpipe instruments

PROJECT ACRONYM: European bagpipe educational forum

duration: 1. 9. 2015. – 31. 8. 2017.

Applicant organisation: Centre of Croatian traditional instruments, HR Partners: Orava Cultral Centre, SK / Muziekpublique, BE / Pluribus Unum, PL

Project result: FRAMEWORK FOR ONLINE DATABASE OF BAGPIPERS IN EUROPE inputs from Belgium, Croatia, Poland and Slovakia

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

BELGIUM 1. INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Decker Surname Rémi City / Region Aarschot – Vlaams Brabant – Belgium Year of birth 1983 Contact e-mail [email protected] Website www.remi-decker.be Social media www.facebook.com/SOSCornemuse Short CV Educational Rémi Decker (° 1983) is a Belgian musician, self-taught multi-instrumentalist of bagpipe international renown. He is grows up in a musical environment and starts to background play the bagpipes at the age of 10. Driven by his enthusiasm and curiosity, he goes to work as an autodidact. He has taught bagpipes and folk music since 2000. In January 2017, Rémi Decker has started a new series of online tutorials devoted to 16 inch, half closed fingering G bagpipe basic techniques. A reference for beginners and a source of inspiration for more advenced bagpipers.

Video https://youtu.be/DUdMRYdYOUc?list=PL_5kU1whDWZ2zT0uqIoZ_JnzuarVa6Qls Picture

Category Player YES Maker NO Teacher YES Composer / YES Arranger Researcher, NO musicologist Curator NO Project NO manager

1. INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Dubois Surname Remy City / Region Liège – Belgium Year of birth 1942 Contact e-mail / Website / Social media https://www.facebook.com/R%C3%A9my-Dubois-Olle-Geris-Atelier-dun- Souffle-%C3%A0-lautre-329354903785817/ Short CV Educational Remy Dubois (¨Pepinster; 1942) bagpipe and epinette maker. After his studies of bagpipe wood work at Don Bsco in Verviers and draing at the academy, he worked as comic background drawer and etalagist. He makes his first bagpipes in 1970 as an autodidact. He fastly became a European reference for the bagpipe making. He is nowadays retired but works further at barok musette pipes and teaching students to make pipes. Olle Geris, who has worked with him for years took the workshop over since a few years.

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Category Player YES Maker YES Teacher NO Composer / NO Arranger Researcher, YES musicologist Curator NO Project NO manager

2. INFO ABOUT RESEARCHERS – MUSICOLOGIST - CURATORS Name Boone Surname Hubert City / Region Steenokkerzeel – Vlaams Brabant, Belgium Connection with Worked a MIM Brussels institution Year of birth 1940 Contact e-mail / Website / Social media / Short CV Educational Hubert Boone (Nederokkerzeel, June 11, 1940) is a Belgian violinist and background bagpipe player and collector of music, songs and dance from Flanders; He received his first music lessons from Mil's brothers and Jean Penninckx, the local tailor and butcher. From 1953 to 1956 he played cornet in the fanfare of Saint Stephen and learned to know the traditional repertoire. From 1957 to 1963 he studied at the Royal Music Conservatory of Brussels: he taught here memorial, viola, harmonious, contrapunt and fugue. In 1968, Boone became a scientific assistant at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) of Brussels. From 1990, he made recordings of traditional music in Eastern Europe such as: Ukraine, Armenia, Belarus, Chuvash, Mordovia and South Ossetia. Boone founded the popular dance group De Vlier in 1968 and in 1978 the Brabants Folk Orchestra and in 2000 the Limbrant ensemble. In the last two groups he plays as a musician and visited countless countries with them. Field of interest Bagpipe and folk music in Belgium and Europe Picture

Bibliography & • De hommel in de Lage Landen (1976) Publications • De doedelzak (1983) (about bagpipes) • De mondtrom (1986) • Het accordeon en de voetbas in België (1990) • Volksinstrumenten in België (1995, i.s.m. Wim Bosmans) • Traditionele Vlaamse Volksliederen en Dansen (Leuven 2004)

CROATIA 1. INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Franko Surname Kos City / Region place Kapelica near Labin / region - Istria Year of birth / Contact e-mail / Website / Social media / Short CV Franko Kos from Labin in Istria is local bagpiper who plays in Culture and art society Raša. He teachs how to play and how to make traditional instruments (mijeh) from Istra. Among his pupils are also his grandchildren which is a way of traditional transmission of knowledge in Croatia – inside the family from the older to the younger generations. Kos was also candidate for Life work reward because of his contribution for cultivation and conservation of traditional songs and music from Labin and for making traditional istrian musical instruments.

Educational bagpipe learn from older generations background What kind of mijeh instrument What kind of music traditional music Video https://vimeo.com/43208023 Pictures

Category Player Yes Maker Yes Teacher Yes Composer / Arranger No Researcher, No musicologist Curator No Project manager No

1.INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Alfonso Surname Konović City / Region Barban / Istria Year of birth 1939 Contact e-mail / Website / Social media / Short CV Alfonso Konović from Jurićev Kal near Barban made his first sopela completely by hand when he was 17 years old. He began making instruments seriously in 2000, after having acquired a small lathe and all the necessary tools for making instruments. He made all Istrian traditional instruments and reeds, and paid special attention to the sopelica about which he didn’t know much and thought it was a forgotten and neglected instrument.

Educational bagpipe learn from older generations background What kind of all traditional Istrian instruments, mostly sopelica instrument What kind of music traditional music Video https://vimeo.com/45647571 Pictures

Category Player Yes Maker Yes Teacher Yes Composer / Arranger No Researcher, No musicologist Curator No Project manager No

1.INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Stjepan Surname Večković City / Region MIhovljan / Hrvatsko Zagorje Year of birth 1966. Contact e-mail Website http://www.gajde.com/en/ http://www.gajdefest.eu/ Social media

Short CV Stjepan Večković is a member of National Folk Ensemble LADO and the founder and leader of the Center for Croatian Traditional Instruments, and the Croatian bagpipe Orchestra. He won the award of the Croatian Music Union as the most prominenet instrumentalist on traditional instruments in 2000 and in 2002, and in 2003 paublished his first solo CD titled “The Wind that Touches the Reed”. He is a teacher of playing traditional musical instruments especially bagpipes.

Educational bagpipe background What kind of all croatian traditional musical instruments instrument What kind of music traditional, ethno Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tdso-bJc5s Pictures

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1.INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Mislav Surname Botica City / Region Slavonski brod / Slavonija Year of birth 1999. Contact e-mail Website Social media

Short CV Mislav Botica is a member the Croatian bagpipe Orchestra. He is an excellent player of bagpipe, tambura samica and dude

Educational bagpipe Seminars and wokshops by Stjepan Večković background What kind of Gajde, dude, tambura samica instrument What kind of music traditional, ethno Video Pictures

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1.INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Tomislav Surname Đorđević City / Region Zaprešić / Sjeverozapadna Hrvatska Year of birth Contact e-mail Website Social media

Short CV Tomislav Đorđević is a member the Croatian bagpipe Orchestra and Folk dance ensemble Ivan Goran Kovačić from Zagreb.

Educational bagpipe Seminars and wokshops by Stjepan Večković background What kind of Gajde, dude, tambura samica, ljerica, tambura instrument What kind of music traditional, ethno Video Pictures Category Player Yes Maker no Teacher no

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1.INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Maja Surname Kešić Masle City / Region Topolje / Baranja Year of birth Contact e-mail Website Social media

Short CV Educational bagpipe Seminars and wokshops by Stjepan Večković background What kind of Gajde instrument What kind of music traditional, ethno Video Pictures

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1.INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Anđelo Surname Brna City / Region Rab / Dalmacija Year of birth Contact e-mail Website Social media

Short CV Anđelo Brna is an excellent player of rapski mih, old type of croatian bagpipe. Member of local folk gropu.

Educational bagpipe Self teaching, learn from older generations background What kind of Rapski mih instrument What kind of music traditional Video Pictures

Category Player Yes Maker Yes (bag for mih and gajde) Teacher Yes

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1.INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Mario Surname Mužić City / Region Cres / Kvarner Year of birth Contact e-mail Website Social media

Short CV Mario Mužić is an excellent player of creski mih, old type of croatian bagpipe. Member of local folk gropu. One of founder of local festival.

Educational bagpipe Self teaching, learn from older generations background What kind of creski mih instrument What kind of music traditional Video Pictures

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2. INFO ABOUT RESEARCHERS – MUSICOLOGIST - CURATORS Name Mario

Surname Buletić

City / Region Pula-Pazin / Istra

Institution Ethnographic Museum of Istria

Year of birth 1976.

Contact e-mail [email protected]; [email protected]

Website - Social media Linkedin Short CV Educational background BA Degree in Ethnology – Universita' di Padova, Italy MA Degree in Ethnographic Research, Anthropological Theory and Intercultural Relations – Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain PhD candidate in Ethnology, Social and Cultural Anthropology program – University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Field of interest Museum anthropology, critical museology, inclusive and paricipative museum practice, intangible heritage, oral history, intercultural relations, Mediterranean culture, Istrian region, traditional music and instruments in Istria

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Bibliography & Buletić, M., & Marušić, D. (2014). Istarski tradicijski instrumenti iz fundusa Publications Etnografskog muzeja Istre. Pazin: Ethnographic Museum of Istria. (about bagpipes/mijeh) www.iti-museum.com

Publication and website dedicated to traditional musical instruments in Istria, including bagpipes.

2.INFO ABOUT RESEARCHERS – MUSICOLOGIST - CURATORS Name Paolo Surname Vinati City / Region Italy Institution Istitut Ladin Micurà de Rü Year of birth 1967 Contact e-mail [email protected] Website / Social media Short CV Paolo Vinati studied ethnomusicology at the University of Bologna (DAMS) finishing in 1996. He has conducted fieldwork in Austria, Montenegro, Croatia. In Italy: Lombardy, Trentino and in the Ladin valleys of South Tyrol working with important institutions like the University for music and figurative arts of Vienna and the ladin insitute Micurà de Rü. Several books, CDs and videodocumentarys has been published all about his works. Educational background Field of interest Ethnomusicology Picture Bibliography & Film: Zvuci otoka Publications di Paolo Vinati (58 min. | 2016 – Croazia -Italia) (about bagpipes/mijeh)

2.INFO ABOUT RESEARCHERS – MUSICOLOGIST - CURATORS Name Branka Surname Vojnović Traživuk City / Region Split / Dalmacija Institution Ethnographic Museum Split Year of birth 1960 Contact e-mail [email protected] Website www.etnografski-muzej-split.hr Social media / Short CV She was born in Split where attended art school. She studied art history and ethnology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. Today she is working at the Ethnographic Museum of Split as a museum advisor. She is author of numerous professional and scientific articles and catalogues of exhibitions organized by the Split Etnographic Museum. Educational background PhD – ethnology and cultural anthropology

Field of interest Folk art Picture Bibliography & Zvuk – Zvek – Zvon: Glazbala u hrvatskom folkloru (Sound – Clank – Ring: Publications Croatian folk instruments) (2015) Etnografski muzej Split. (about bagpipes/mijeh)

2.INFO ABOUT RESEARCHERS – MUSICOLOGIST - CURATORS Name Željka Surname Petrović Osmak City / Region Zagreb Connection with Ethnographic Museum institution Year of birth 1979. Contact e-mail [email protected] Website www.emz.hr Social media /

Short CV She conducted the Regional Museum Donja Kupčina for seven years before started to work in Ethographic Museum as a senior curator and coordinator for the Collection of musical instruments and rural economy. She is author of professional and scientific articles and catalogues of exhibitons in Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb and Regional Museum Donja Kupčina. Educational background BA Degree in Ethnology and Pedagogy – Faculty of Philosophy, University in Zagreb MA Degree in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology – Faculty of Philosophy, University in Zagreb

Field of interest Ethnomusicology, traditional music and musical instruments, ethnography and cultural anthropology of rural economy, museum anthropology Picture

Bibliography & Zbirka glazbala. (2014) Etnografski muzej. Zagreb. 2014 Publications (about bagpipes) Publication dedicated to traditional musical instruments in Croatia, including bagpipes.

2.INFO ABOUT RESEARCHERS – MUSICOLOGIST - CURATORS Name Dario Surname Marušić City / Region Pula Institution Year of birth 1957 Contact e-mail [email protected] Website http://dariomarusic.com/ Social media

Short CV Marušić is a musician, researcher and musical instruments builder who has very important role in the revitalization of traditional groups, and generaly music and musical instruments of northen and central Istria. Beside this he has collaborated in several musical projects, he published numeros articles and three books: Predi, predi hči moja, Piskaj sona sopi and Strumenti e tradizioni tra Friuli e Istria. After his British and French experiences he co-founded the legendary group Istranova. He received several awards and prizes for his work. Educational background Field of interest Istrian region, traditional music and instruments in Istria

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Bibliography & Marušić, Dario (1995) Piskaj, sona, sopi. Castropola. Pula. Publications Maručić, Dario (1992) Predi, predi hči moja, ljudske pesmi severne Istre z (about bagpipes/mijeh) notnimi zapisi napevov. Založba Lipa. Koper. Marušić, Dario i Andrea del Favero. Strumenti della musica popolare tra Friuli e Istria Buletić, M., & Marušić, D. (2014). Istarski tradicijski instrumenti iz fundusa Etnografskog muzeja Istre. Pazin: Ethnographic Museum of Istria.

www.iti-museum.com

Publication and website dedicated to traditional musical instruments in Istria, including bagpipes.

POLAND 1. INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Romuald Surname Jędraszak City / Region place Kostrzyn near Poznań / region - Wielkopolska Yearofbirth / Contact e-mail / [email protected] Website / Socialmedia / Fb

Short CV Piper, musician and an expert who teaches playing bagpipes, bladder pipe, fiddle and tied violin. His profession is bricklaying. He started music education at the age of 11, in Stanislaw Grocholski class. Romuald was rewarded at the bigest traditional music competitions in Poland. At present he teaches in 5 places: Poznan, Steszew, Polajewo, Czempin and Szamotuly. His major advantage is efficiency of teaching, as well as using the traditional direct method of teaching - „master – student”, without any knowledge of music score. In cooperation with foundations Kreaktywator and Pluribus Unum, as well as with Institute of Music and Dance, he ran numerous bagpipe workshops. He founded a bagpipe group of 10 people, called "Kapela spod Poznania" (bagpipe, tied violin), with whom he plays frequent concerts.

Educationalbagpipebackground Learn from older generations / from Stanislaw Grocholski Whatkindof instrument bagpipe, bladder pipe, fiddle, tied violin What kind of music traditional and folk music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GxmyMleBeo

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Project manager No 1.INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Andrzej i Bartosz Surname Mendlewscy City / Region Poznań-Wielkawieś / Wielkopolska, Poland Year ofbirth Contact e-mail [email protected] Website / Socialmedia / Short CV Bagpipe builders, bladder pipe, fiddle and tied violin, some of the greatest and most experienced masters in folk instruments construction in Wielkopolska. They studied with Stanislaw Grocholski, bagpiper and folk instrument builder. On their instruments play huge amount of musicians in Wielkopolska. Bartosz is a member of bagpipe group in CK Zamek in Poznan. He and his father were rewarded at many competitions in Poland, as well as abroad. In cooperation with Museum of Musical Instruments in Poznan and with Institute of Music and Dance, they take part in numerous workshops.

Educationalbagpipebackground Learn from older generations / Stanislaw Grocholski Whatkindof instrument all ltraditional Wielkopolska instruments (bagpipes, goats, bladder pipe, fiddle and other) What kind of music traditional music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK7cKJLmjCc

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2.INFO ABOUT RESEARCHERS – MUSICOLOGIST - CURATORS Name Janusz Surname Jaskulski City / Region Poznan, Poland Connection with institution Museum of Music Instruments in Poznan Year of birth Contact e-mail [email protected] Website / Socialmedia / Short CV Ethnologist, folklorist, museologist and cultural animator. Curator in Museum of Music Instruments in Poznan. Co-organizer Meetings of Bagpipe and Goat Builders, Meetings of bagpipers-carolers in Polajewo, Folk Music Competition in Kopanica. Member of the Polish Folk Association, Association of Folk Musicians in Zbaszyn, as well as Council of non material Cultural Heritage at Ministry of Culture. He is a V-President of the PU Foundation. The initiator of entry "Piping Traditions in Wielkopolska" on the UNESCO list (2017). He is the author of many exhibitions and publications about traditional music (including the editorial of "Duda and Goat"). For more than 30 years, he ran numerous field and archival research in Wielkopolska and other regions of the country concerning the art of piping. He is the juror at frequent national and foreign competitions. Educational background Study of antropology of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan /, work&investigation in Museum of the Musical Instruments, Poznan Field of interest All polish traditional instruments Picture

Bibliography & Publications "Duda i Kozieł" (editor), Poznań-Zbaszyn 1997-2002, 2004 (about bagpipes) Wielkopolska Matecznikiem Dud Polskich / Grosspolen - Heimat polnischer Dudelsacke / Great Poland - the land of bagpipes ( polski- deutsch-english ), Poznań 2006 Koźlarskim szlakiem w świat, Kopanica 2011.. Budowniczowie instrumentów muzycznych w Regionie Kozła, „Portrety REGIONU”, 4/2013, Zbąszyń 2013. . Der Dudelsack – von Asien nach Nowa Amerika / Dudy – z Azji do Nowej Ameriki, [w:] Nowa Amerika: „Ein Land dazwischen / Kraj pomiędzy”, red. Michael Kurzwelly, Słubfurt 2014 Dudziarski tryptyk (polski-english), Połajewo 2015 Mazanki, „Portrety REGIONU” 6/2015, Zbąszyń 2015 5th notes about polish bagpipes (2015) in: http://ludowe.instrumenty.edu.pl/en/museums- /muzeums/muzeum/157

SLOVAKIA 1. INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Juraj Surname Dufek City / Region Bojnice Year of birth 1976 Contact e-mail [email protected] Website http://www.gajdy.bagpipes.sk/ Social media - Short CV Juraj Dufek is piper and bagpipe maker from Bojnice, a small town in central Slovakia. The production of traditional traditional folk instruments has been devoted to 17 years. He made more than 400 pieces. It produces them not only for Slovak bagpipers, but also plays in many European countries. He started with the play of bagpipe himself. Now, Juraj has own pupils who teaches. Educational bagpipe he learned self-help and others bagpipers background Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lau93rotvaA Picture

Category Player yes Maker yes Teacher yes Composer / Arranger no Researcher, no musicologist Curator no Project manager no

2. INFO ABOUT LOCAL BAGPIPER (player and maker) Name Drahomír Surname Daloš City / Region Lehota/Nitra Year of birth 1962 Contact e-mail [email protected] Website http://www.fujaradd.sk/ Social media - Short CV Drahomír has been a producer of folk musical instruments for more than 25 years. As a young man he visited Slovak agricultural museum in Nitra and he wa fascinated by folk musical instruments. He learned from older musicians as well as self-help. In his direction many quality music programs and expositions have been created (Slovakia, Paris, Berlin, Brusel….)

Educational he learned self-help and others and older bagpipers background Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z957HLfam_o Picture

Category Player yes Maker yes Teacher yes Composer / no Arranger Researcher, no musicologist Curator no Project no manager

2.INFO ABOUT RESEARCHERS – MUSICOLOGIST - CURATORS Name Milan Surname Rusko City / Region Bratislava Connection with Slovak academy of scieneces institution Year of birth 1960 Contact e-mail [email protected] Website - Social media - Short CV Milan borned in the middle of Slovakia, but now he lives in capital Bratislava. There, he has many activities with bagpipers culture. He teaches young bagpipers in capital and he is a leader of children folk ensemble. His musical beginnings are in the village Malá Lehota, where he learned from old musicians. Milan presented slovak bigpipers culture in Europe, Asia and USA. Educational - background Field of interest Traditional slovak music (whistles, bagpipes) Picture

Bibliography & Publications (about bagpipes)