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
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