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The musical aesthetic of Pau Casals and the role of music in peacebuilding are the two new projects awarded grants by the Pau Casals UNESCO Chair
The grants programme's second call, which aims to promote research and knowledge of the musician's musical and humanistic legacy, received 26 applications from students and researchers all over the world. A total of 26 research projects on Pau Casals were [...]
Dr. Alfons Martinell , co-director of the UNESCO Chair Pau Casals, awarded in the 6th edition of the UCLG – Mexico City – Culture 21 International Award in the category of Personality.
June 2024 - Organised biennially, the UCLG - Mexico City - Culture 21 International Award organised by the international organisation United Cities and Local Governments and the government of Mexico City already has the winners of the 6th edition 2023-2024. [...]
The Pau Casals Chair becomes UNESCO Chair and joins UNESCO’s international cooperation programme
Sant Salvador, June 28, 2024 - The news was celebrated this Friday morning, 28 June, at the Pau Casals Museum (Sant Salvador, Tarragona) at an event attended by people, institutions and organizations that have provided their support to make this [...]
The first call for applications for the Pau Casals Chair research grants opens
The Pau Casals Foundation and the UOC will provide grants for research projects into the musician himself and his values. Applications must be submitted between 23 January and 10 March 2023 (11.59 p.m.). Each grant has a financial endowment of [...]
Joan Fuster-Sobrepere: “United Nations was a great hope for his generation, because the alternative was nuclear destruction”
Yolanda Viñales Verdes The Pau Casals Chair - Music and Defense of Peace and Human Rights, an initiative of the Pau Casals Foundation and the UOC, attached to the UOC's Faculty of Arts and Humanities, was created in 2022. Joan [...]
When cultural heritage becomes cannon fodder
The war in Ukraine has once again highlighted the non-compliance with common agreements for the protection of cultural heritage and infrastructure. The 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict is the frame of [...]
The Pau Casals Chair, music and defence of peace and human rights, was born in 2022.
On January 25, an agreement was signed for the creation of the Pau Casals Chair, a joint project between the Pau Casals Foundation and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). The aim of this new chair is to promote contemporary [...]
