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Read more: Improvisationes - Int. polyaisthesis Symposium 2025 Review

The performance "Poesie und Musik" (Poetry and Music) -> program link <-  impressed sustainably. Students of the Tokyo Gakugei University showed polyaesthetic improvisations about Japanese poems and paintings of Paul Klee, Prof. Hidekazu Ishizaki und Prof. Masayuki Nakaji, Tokio presented an illustrious multinational program of art songs and a vocal ensemble of the Carl-Orff-Institute opened the event by scenes of 'minispectacula' composed by Wilhelm Keller. The auditory's response was enthusiastic and warm.

Prof. Dr. Masayuki Nakaji is a continous member of the International Association of Polyaesthetic Education since the time he was studying himself piano, the program of Orff-Schulwerk and Doctoral Studies in Music Education at Salzburg. He was a member of the International Council of Experts. Since 2016 he is a member of the board. At Tokyo Gakugei University M. Nakaji is teaching music education and is the leader of the "Center for Applied Arts and Athletics Education" since 2024. A lively cooperation between Tokyo and Salzburg with numerous live contributions is the merit of Prof. Nakaji, in 2025 in 2025 especially supported by Prof. Barbara Dobretsberger, University Mozarteum Salzburg. 

"Orient meets Occident" as an intercultural Polyaesthetic presentation of piano music of 20. cent. was presented by Prof. Masayuki Nakaji, Tokio, Prof. Rolf Plagge and Jeanne Yang, Salzburg, referring to an universitary seminar of musical analysis by Prof. Barbara Dobretsberger, on March, 23 in Salzburg. -> program link. 

Antalya Bilim Universitesi invited Gerhard Hofbauer to give the opening lecture at the "International World Migration Movements Symposium" in early March 2022. The title of the paper was "The Diverse Phenomena of today's Migration, Mirrored by the Education-Minded Concept of Polyaesthetics". Although ( perhaps especially because ) the aesthetic approach to the topic differed from the other mostly empirical contributions, many conversations and numerous positive feedbacks were the result. Some contacts could lead to further cooperation. From a polyaesthetic perspective, the topic opened up a broad field for reflecting on the motives and on the individual as well as social-communicative effects of migration and its tradition-integrating backgrounds. The contribution will be published in the symposium publication.