Community Music with refugees

Thank you to Franz Kellerer of the Musikverband Ober und Niederbayern for inviting Doris Kohlenberger and me to lead a workshop on community music in refugee contexts!

1. Community Music Salon München, 20.10.2016

I am very pleased to support the 1st Community Music Salon: Music from and with refugees.

Please register via the project coordinator Marie Karaisl by emailing: communitymusicmuenchen@gmail.com
https://communitymusicmuenchen.com/

Commmunity Music workshop for teachers at the Government of Lower Bavaria

Thank you to Heinrich Etzel and the Regierung von Niederbayern (Government of Lower Bavaria) for inviting me to hold a one day workshop on the 3rd of June for teachers and introducing them to Community Music!

Community Music for BA and MA students

I'm excited that the University Hildesheim and the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Munich/Benediktbeuren have both invited me to teach Community Music modules to their BA students!

Erstes Community Music Buch auf deutsch!

I am co-editing the very first publication dedicated to Community Music in the German language together with Burkhard Hill! It will include articles translated into German by Lee Higgins, Brydie Leigh Bartleet, Don Coffman, Lee Willingham, Dave Camlin and Jess Abrams as well as German authors such as Burkahrd Hill, the Munich Community Music Action Research Group, Wolfgang Mastnak, Marion Haak-Schulenburg, Eric Sons, Julia Zanke, Andre Pittelkau and myself. The book will be a broad introduction into Community Music for all German speaking practitioners and researchers.

Germany Issue at the International Journal of Community Music is out!

I am very happy that the current issue of the International Journal of Community Music is out!
For the first time an entire issue is dedicated to Community Music in Germany and I was lucky enough to work with Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hill as co-editor for this issue and with Prof. Dr. Theo Harthog in the peer review committee.
The issue contains articles by Prof. Dr. Bernd Clausen, Prof. Dr. Thomas Grosse, Prof. DDDr. Wolfgang Mastnak, Dr. Andreas Wölfl, Prof. Dr. Elke Josties, Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hill, Prof. Dr. Theo Hartogh and myself.
See more details here.

Community Music Winter School in Zürich, 08.02. - 10.02.2016

I'm looking forward to spending three days at the Züricher Hochschule der Künste (Zürich University of the Arts) delivering their first Community Music Winter School together with Lee Higgins, Elisabeth Danuser and Sike Vlecken. More information see here.

Promotionsstipendium / PhD Scholarship

I am very pleased and grateful to have received a PhD scholarship starting this autumn by the Bavarian ministry of education for my PhD on Developing Community Music in Munich :-)

Konzeption und Koordination der Internationalen Tagung Community Music in Theorie und Praxis: 12. - 14.11.15

Die Tagung „Community Music in Theorie und Praxis“ wurde von der Hochschule München, Fakultät für angewandte Sozialwissenschaften, Professur für Bewegung, musische Bildung, kreatives Gestalten, Prof. Dr. Burkhard Hill ausgerichtet. 
Kooperationspartner waren:

 

·      Münchener Philharmoniker/Spielfeld Klassik (Simone Siwek)

·      International Centre for Community Music, York University (Prof. Dr. Lee Higgins)
·      Bezirk Oberbayern/Popularmusikbeauftragter (Mathias Fischer)

·      Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Alicia de Banffy-Hall)
·      Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt München/Abteilung 4 (Kulturelle Bildung, Kitty  von Korff)

A short video by Matthias Fischer about the conference and community music:
https://vimeo.com/146751308
See here for a conference report written by Simeon Smith of MaSamba, Ireland:
http://www.masamba.com/uncategorized/cm-conference-munich-2015-initial-impressions/
Mehr Informationen auf:
https://munichcommunitymusicconference.blogspot.com/

Konzept und Leitung Community Music

In January 2015 the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra commissioned me to lead and develop their first community music programme culminating in performances in November 2015.

I developed and lead four projects with musicians from the orchestra and partners in the city.
1. a Community Orchestra in collaboration with Wolfi Schlick of the Express Brass Band
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/musikprojekt-jeder-darf-jeder-kann-1.2676252
2. a music theatre project with the TheaterSpielhaus Munich
3. a project in collaboaration with the Freie Musikzentrum Munich's programm Drumpower, developing a performance based on a story with a primary school
4. a soundscape in collaboration with a primary school and Heinz Friedl of Musik zum Anfassen

Here you can find more information about the projects.

Here a short review about the performances:
http://www.nmz.de/artikel/musizieren-als-prozess-mit-offenem-ausgang

Runder Tisch Musik

On the 23rd of May the Department of Cultural Education hosted the first Round Table Music for practitioners and organisation who work in the field of music education in Munich. I was invited to co-host the day, in collaboration with the director of education of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (Simone Siwek) and the Youth Centre Quax (Florian Knappick). I lead an exercise about the principles of cultural education (for example participation, accessiblity, diversity) and briefly introduced my research project on community music in Munich.

Fresh eyes on music

Article published in the Community Music Journal: Sound Sense/ Sounding BoardDecember 1, 2013

You never know a place so well as when you leave it. Alicia de Banffy-Hall and Martin Milner describe lessons for community music and music education from their experiences in other places and settings.

You can download the whole article here.

Moderation Diskussion Kreativquartier München

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January 2014

I was invited to moderate a discussion between the director of the Munich Planning Council, the director of the Munich Arts Council, representatives of the council, local politicians and a cooperative of artists (Labor München), to resolve a conflict regarding the temporary use of empty buildings and the long term strategy for arts and culture in this soon to be regenerated area in Munich.

Music and Movement Workshops at the Münchner Waisenhaus

March 2014

I am leading music and movement workshops with children agend 0 - 4, who live in temporary care at the Munich Waisenhaus.