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!

KOMMA

Thank you to Amos Heuss for a great day at KOMMA, an inspiring arts and cultural centre in Esslingen! I led a singing workshop for the conference attendees and a workshop and talk on community music and community cultural development (thank you Peggie Kummer for your help and ideas!).

Endlich....

...habe ich nun mein Zeugnis :-)

Jailbreak: Conference about music in prisons: 21.05.19 in Eichstätt

All welcome! We are organising a conference about community music work in prisons with some amazing speakers: Prof. Dr. Mary Cohen (US), Catherine Birch (ICCM, UK), Prof. DDDr. Wolfgang Mastnak, David Ehlers, Basketbeat (Spain) and others.

More info here.

Community Music position at the Konzerthaus Dortmund

Over the last four months I have been working with Raphael Hoensbroech and his amazing team on the development of community music at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.  I am very excited to share this job opportunity: a full time position to develop and build community music at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.

Capstone Community Music Projects

Congratulations to my MA students who have presented their Community Music capstone projects last week! I was very proud of them, what they have achieved, and the journey they have navigated over the last year and a half!