Abschluss 1. Kohorte Community Music Zertifikatslehrgang

This weekend marked the final weekend of the first community music certificate course, a one year intense community music course, aimed at practitioners, music students and social work students. During the year the participants have intense community music practice training weeks, a seminar about community music thinking and research and they do their own community music project in their community. I am very proud of the students who participated, all participants from across Germany and Switzerland and grateful for the amazing team. The round starts in January 2025!

Jahrestagung Verband deutscher Musikschulen Hessen

Danke an Dr. Hans-Joachim Rieß, Geschäftsführer des VdM Hessen für die Einladung einen Vortrag über Community Music zu halten, eine gute Diskussion mit Musikschulleiter*innen über die Potentiale von Community Music für Musikschulen und die spannenden Einblicke in die aktuellen Herausforderungen von Musikschulen in Hessen.

Runder Tisch Musikalische Bildung im Bundeskanzleramt

Runder Tisch Musikalische Bildung bei Kulturstaatsministerin Claudia Roth im Bundeskanzleramt in Berlin. Eine Freude, Community Music in der Diskussion um Lösungen für die Probleme in der musikalischen Bildung in Deutschland zu vertreten.

Round table on music education with Minister for Culture Claudia Roth in the Kanzleramt in Berlin. It was a pleasure to represent community music in the discussion to find solutions to problems in music education in Germany.

CMA University of Tampere 2024

We had an amazing Community Music Activity pre conference at the University of Tampere in Finland. We had over 100 people from around the world, talks, practical workshops, a concert cruise on an island, a Finnish saune evening, a day trip, a conference dinner...it was a beautiful time, thank you so much to the CMA team Christine D'Alexander, Kathleen Turner, Nic Coffman, Hala Jaber and Vyv Abla. And a special thank you to Kaarina Marjanen our generous host.

International Journal of Community Music Podcast Series: Community Music Conversations

I am very happy that the first episode of the new International Journal of Community Music Podcast Series: Community Music Conversations has launched today! Roger Mantie and I will be interviewing different authors and editors of the journal to share their insights, their thinking and the journeys that lead to publications in the journal.

 

Community Music Network Germany

I am very pleased about this new publication and these two new videos about the Community Music Netzwerk Germany. I have been devoting a lot of time during the last 10 years in building this network and the videos and the text give a good idea about the work we do for the field of community music in Germany!

You can find the open access article here.

Freue mich auf Zürich

 

Drei Tage mit Studierenden der ZHDK....danke an Christian Berger für die Einladung!

On my way to Korea....

I'm super excited to visit Seoul, Korea for the first time to give a talk about Community Music in Germany at the conference "The Role of Music Education for Humans and Society in the New Era" organized by the Association for Future Music Education!

Beginning of the Community Music Certificate

What a beautiful start to the one year Community Music Certificate!

You can listen to a short radio feature with an interview with me on the certificate on Deutschlandfunk here!

Community Music at Munich Libraries

I loved working for a whole day on developing community music in Munich Libraries, with the director und 25 people of the Munich Libraries.

Come and work with me!

Come and join me at Hochschule Düsseldorf: we are looking for a Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) zur Unterstützung der Lehre im technischen Bereich des Lehrgebiets Kultur, Ästhetik, Medien, more info here.

ISME Board Meeting in Helsinki - Planning CMA in Tampere 31.7. - 4.8.23

Lovely few days meeting ISME board members and then on to Tampere, working with the University of Tampere and Kaarina Marjanen planning CMA 2024!

Here the link to the call for papers:

https://www.isme-commissions.org/cma.html

diskrit.kubi.net

What an excellent resource developed by Carmen Mörsch and her team. I really recommend checking out this website on critical anti discrimination perspectives at the intersection of arts and education!

Thank you Nelly Alfandari, Theater Dortmund and Carmen Mörsch for thought provoking two days!

Community Music Certificate

 Sooo happy we managed to get this off the ground to start in Autumn 2023!!

More info and registration here

Love est. 2023 - Preconcert 7.5.23

 What a beautiful performance - well done Team Love est 2023 at Kampnagel K6!

1st Greek Community Conference -

So good to work with the greek community on developing community music in Greece. Well done Lida Stamou, Ioannis Litos and Rafaela Troulou for organizing this event - and it was so nice to work with Catherine Birch and Lee Higgins again!

Community Music in der Neuen Musikzeitung

 Danke an Juan Koch für das super Interview!

Community Music Conference in Greece

I look forward to working with Lida Stamou, Catherine Birch and Lee Higgins and Community Musicians  in Thessaloniki this May, on developing Community Music in Greece!

Community Music on Bayern Klassik Radio - 20.01. at 19.05

I am looking forward to hearing this interview and program on community music on BR-Klassik today, thank you to Julia Schölzel for the so excellent prepared interview!

Wir suchen eine neue Koordinator*in für unser Community Music Netzwerk

Wir suchen eine neue Koordinator*in für unser Community Music Netzwerk //

Ab Februar 2023 bis Ende 2023 eine Projektkoordinator*in auf Minijobbasis (5 Stunden pro Woche) mit Möglichkeit auf Verlängerung.

Hier die Stellenausschreibung

A new article about the Community Music Netzwerk by Marie Karaisl

A new article about the Community Music Netzwerk by Marie Karaisl - have a look!

Special Issue on Community Music in Üben und Musizieren!

Pleased to be part of this publication: A special issue on community music in the German journal for instrumental teachers and music educators.

Kultur.Raum.Vieltfalt

Yesterday I gave a key note address at the interim venue Gasteig P8 at a conference about how cultural institutions use spaces to enable more access. The Munich Philharmonic, the Munich libraries, the Arts Council and interesting projects from Austria and all over Germany took part. You can watch it here.

All welcome!

 

Musik:Welt Hildesheim - Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

What a beautiful month with so many encounters, finally connecting with people in person again:

A weekend in Hildesheim with the students and colleagues of the MA Musik:Welt Cultural Diversity in Music Education. We learned and listened to the Master thesis projects of the students and spent a beautiful evening celebrating and dancing and singing and eating together. Thank you Morena and Raimund!

Followed by an intense day in Hamburg at the Elbphilharmonie working with the education team and a group of wonderful artists collaborating on a community project. Starting with a tour of the concert hall, to me leading two workshops: one on developing a deeper understanding of community music, followed by a creative arts workshop implementing approaches to community music through dance, spoken word and music. Thank you Ilka, Kian and Charlotte!

Professorship for music in social work / community music at the Hochschule Düsseldorf

And so a new chapter begins in Düsseldorf: I will start as Professor for music in social work / community music!

 

I'm excited to be a jury member in this great project by art in prison, a European art competition for incarcerated people:

Community Music and / oder Musikvermittlung by Constanze Wimmer and Alicia de Bánffy-Hall

 

Musik im Strafvollzug

 Very happy this book which was a loooong time in the making is now out:

Rethinking classical music practice: Musikvermittlung and Community Music

I look forward to presenting together with Prof. Constanze Wimmer at the conference by the university of music and performing arts Vienna this Friday: https://www.mdw.ac.at/pmoe2021/ They have organized a great online program and live translation so come along!

The preparation process has been really enriching, discussing differences, intersections and perspectives on Musikvermittlung and Community Music with Constanze!

Seminar on Reflection and Mindfulness

What a beautiful seminar with Kathleen Turner, Gerard Yun, Lee Willingham, Lee Higgins and nearly forty students from four countries on reflection and mindfulness in Community Music on the 9th of November 2021, one year after the community music winter school!

Professor at Hochschule Landshut

Today I start a new chapter as full professor for aesthetic practice in social work (music and media) at Hochschule Landshut! 

Rethinking Classical Music Practice Audience and Community Engagement in Classical Concert Life

I look forward to being part of this online conference in Vienna, exploring Musikvermittlung and Community Music together with Prof. Constanze Wimmer!

A visit to Linz: Musikvermittlung - Musik im Kontext!

My first trip in a long time. How lovely to be seeing people in person again! Thank you Irena Müller-Brozovic, Dagmar Schinnerl and your MA students for a great morning at Bruckner University Linz, Austria at the course: "Musikvermittlung - Musik im Kontext!

Thank you Dr. Franklin Lewis...

 ... for for visiting the Community Music Netzwerk and giving such an inspirational talk and video on your autoethnographic PhD research in South Africa!

Here Franklins YouTube Video

Appointment as Research Fellow of the Laurier Centre for Music in the Community (LCMC)

 Thank you Lee Willingham for this appointment, I look forward to further collaborations! Very excited!

Community Music Netzwerk - New Website

What a beautiful new website of Community Music Netzwerk the German network for community musicians. Check it out! 

 Very happy to join an amazing team as Commissioner of the Community Music Activity Commission!

Der Weg zum Community Musician Podcast

Thank you to Matt Robinson of the Konzerthaus Dortmund for inviting me to do a session in the "Der Weg zum Community Musician" Sessions, here you can listen to the Podcast about Community Music in Deutschland.

ROCE - community music at concerthouses in Germany

Thank you to ROCE (La Red de Organizadores de Conciertos Eduvativos), the Spanish association for education activities in concerts, for inviting me to talk at their annual conference on community music in concert halls in Germany. It was supposed to take place in Tenerife, but instead, because of COVID it takes place online In the talk I discuss my experiences in developing Community Music at the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the Konzerthaus Dortmund.

Community Music Learning YouTube channel

I'm happy to share this new Community Music Learning YouTube channel with you, I have worked on this for the last few months with collegues from Canada (Prof. Lee Willingham), Ireland (Dr. Kathleen Turner) and the UK (Prof. Dr. Lee Higgins), and we keep developing it as an ongoing collaboration. It is a growing resource for community music researchers and practitioners.

Community Music Winter School

I'm very excited to announce the Community Music Winter School's programme here, the event will take place from the 02.11.20 until the 04.11.2020 online on Zoom.

I collaborated with collegues from Canada (Prof.Dr.Lee Willingham), England (Prof. Dr. Lee Higgins), Ireland (Dr. Kahleen Turner) in creating this online conference, focussing on Community Music Research, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service and hosted by the catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

We have all created talks focussing on different aspects of research in community music, the talks are shared publicly on the Community Music Learning YouTube channel.

Action Research and the Community Music Action Research Group Video

Very pleased this is out now!

Check out the Community Music Learning Channel on YouTube!

 

Open Access: FamilyLab's Community Music Dokumentation

The film and conference talk recordings, of the Munich Community Music Conference 2015, are now available online, open access here: 

Thank you Mathias Voelchert for investing and supporting this project!

Nice to get two parcels in the post in one day....

Another Italian book on Community Music, I am grateful to be in it (well done Antonella Coppi!):

And another one...

Review of The Development of Community Music in Germany

 Thank you Catherine Birch for this review of my book:

"A new book review is available. Catherine Birch has reviewed Alicia de Banffy-Hall's The development of community music in Munich. Catherine writes that the book is a deep insight into the development of community music in Munich and she compares it with her own experience in the UK. Full review at the link here."

Italian book on Community Music

Congratulations Dr. Antonella Coppi for her second Italian book on Community Music - I'm happy to be part of this one too with a chapter on Community Music in higher education in Germany.

Anmeldeschluss für den MA inklusive Musikpädagogik/Community Music: 01.06.2020

Anmeldeschluss für den MA inklusive Musikpädagogik/Community Music 01.06.2020
Mehr Infos hier!

Lasst es raus - über die neue Sangeslust

Horst Konietzny has created a radio feature about crowd singing in Germany and interviewed me as part of his research, it was shared on Bayern 2, you can listen to it here.

Editorial Board Transform - New Voices in Community Music Journal 2020

Thank you Dr. Fran Marnane for inviting me to be a member of the editorial board for the 2020 edition of Transform - New Voices in Community Music Journal!

Terzwerk Interview

Thank you Samuel Binder-Köhrer from Terzwerk, for the short interview with me about the Community Music Programme at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.

Community Music at the Konzerthaus Dortmund

Really pleased to have been part of the BE: community kick off event of the community music programme at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, well done Matt Robinson! I will research their development of community music over the next year and have had some fascinating conversations this weekend...

Kulturpreis Bayern

Thank you to to the Bavarian Ministry of Arts and Science and Bayernwerk for awarding me with the Kulturpreis Bayern for my PhD dissertation on the development of community music in Munich!
Pressemitteilung hier.
Pressephoto hier.

Call for papers: „jailbreak“ Musik im Strafvollzug aus (inter-)nationaler Perspektive

Radiofeature on Community Music on Deutschlandfunk

Here I've been interviewed for another radio feature about community music, produced by Leonie Reineke for Deutschlandfunk: Musik und Inklusion - Community Music  - Von allen, für alle.

Einladung Zukunftswerkstatt Community Music in München

Das Münchener Kulturreferat, die Münchner Community Music Aktionsforschungsgruppe und die Community Music Initiative München laden Sie ganz herzlich zu unserer Community Music Salon Zukunftswerkstatt ein. Hier möchten wir auf die vergangenen Workshops zurückblicken, aber vor allem die Zukunft der Initiative Community Music und der Salons gemeinsam mit Ihnen gestalten.

Bei einer Kleinigkeit zu essen sowie einem Bier oder Wein, würden wir gerne Vorschläge, Kritik, Wünsche und Anregungen austauschen.

Wann & Wo: 13 September 2019, 18 Uhr bis 20 Uhr

Wo:  Raum 400, Kulturreferat München, Burgstrasse 4, 80331 München. 

ANMELDUNG: Bis 9. September 2019 an Marie Karaisl unter communitymusicmuenchen@gmail.com

Wir freuen uns auf Ihr/Euer Kommen. 

Radio Interview Kulturkanal

Thank you Heike Haberl for an excellently prepared and researched interview with my student Irmengard Siebler about her community orchestra Ingolstadt and me about the MA.

Have a listen here!

https://www.kulturkanal-ingolstadt.de/Sendung/S20190815/Studiengang-Community-Music-an-der-KU-Eichstatt

Jailbreak: Music in Prison conference short film

Here a short film about the conference we hosted in Eichstätt in May.

Another year....

Thank you to my students of the second intake of the MA inclusive music education/community music for a year with lots of deep, interesting and thoughtful conversations and music making. I can't wait for their capstone projects to happen in the autumn!

Creative Interactions

Thank you to Prof. Andrea Sangiorgio of the University of Music and Performing Arts for a thought provoking conference. I presented a paper on Community Music and Creativity, and particularly enjoyed the very inspiring key note by Dr. Kerry Chappell on transdisciplinary creativity!