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 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.
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.
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!
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!
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!
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 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.
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
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!
Sooo happy we managed to get this off the ground to start in Autumn 2023!!
More info and registration here
What a beautiful performance - well done Team Love est 2023 at Kampnagel K6!
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!
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!
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 //
Pleased to be part of this publication: A special issue on community music in the German journal for instrumental teachers and music educators.
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!
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:
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!
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!
Today I start a new chapter as full professor for aesthetic practice in social work (music and media) at Hochschule Landshut!
I look forward to being part of this online conference in Vienna, exploring Musikvermittlung and Community Music together with Prof. Constanze Wimmer!
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!
... for for visiting the Community Music Netzwerk and giving such an inspirational talk and video on your autoethnographic PhD research in South Africa!
Thank you Lee Willingham for this appointment, I look forward to further collaborations! Very excited!
What a beautiful new website of Community Music Netzwerk the German network for community musicians. Check it out!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Another Italian book on Community Music, I am grateful to be in it (well done Antonella Coppi!):
And another one...
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."
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.
