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.