Registration open for the Professional Certification in Ethnomusicology and Caribbean Musicology

Registration is now open for the Professional Certification in Ethnomusicology and Caribbean Musicology!

The newly created Professional Certification in Ethnomusicology and Caribbean Musicology is now accepting applications for its program, which will begin in August 2026. For more information about the curriculum and admission requirements, please visit the website. https://cmpr.edu/certificacion-en-etnomusicologia-y-musicologia-caribena/ and write to: admisiones@cmpr.edu.

As a prelude to this certification, the Puerto Rico and Caribbean Institute of Musical Research (IMPCA) has organized the following schedule of events:

IMPCA Calendar January-May 2026

Event	Date	Place
Master Class with Kira Jewitt “The Violin in Traditional Irish Music”	Tuesday, February 3 4:30pm	Room 206H, CMPR
Panel “The influence of Tite Curet Alonso on composers”	Thursday, February 5, 6pm	Soto Junior Room, CMPR
Irish music concert with Kira Jewitt (Irish violin)	Friday, February 6 7pm	Soto Junior Room, CMPR
African Music Workshop with Abdou Mboup “From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta” (demonstration of indigenous kora, ngoni and djembe instruments)	Wednesday March 11, 4:30pm	Pepito Figueroa Room, CMPR
Luis Hernández Mergal and Nelson Rivera Concert Two by John Cage (two pianos)	Tuesday March 17, 7pm	Sanromá Room, CMPR
Musiké Magazine Launch Volume 10	Wednesday April 15, 6 pm	Library Amaury Veray
Conference Workshop “Dialogues between the music of the Maghreb, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean” Dr. Ikbal Hamzaoui	Wednesday April 8, 10:30am	Room 211H, CMPR
Conference “Women of reggaeton: a conversation with Zaida Morales (former manager of Rubén DJ and Jelly D) and Melba Santana (former manager of Vico C and Lisa M)” Puerto Rico Reggaeton Committee and Women of Reggaeton	Monday April 20, 6pm	Room 206H, CMPR