The 39th EMU General Assembly 2014

will take place in Berlin on 5 and 6 December 2014

Headlines of the programme

Friday 5 December 2014

Before 13.30   Arrival participants
14.00 - 17.30  General Assembly – Household Matters
19.00              Dinner

Saturday 6 December 2014

09.30 - 12.30   Open space working groups
14.00 - 17.30   Management capacity-building seminar 
                        ‘Development of National Music and Culture School Associations’

By | 25 jula, 2014|EMU|Nema komentara

Music Education

Education in the new economy: STEM plus arts

Ken Robinson, author of the inspiring best-seller "Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative," reminds us that the goal of education should not be to teach subjects, rather to teach students.

SLT Today

France: L'Éducation artistique et culturelle "un engagement au long cours"

L'Éducation artistique et culturelle compte parmi les chevaux de bataille de la ministre de la Culture.

ActuaLitté

Michelle Obama pushes for music, arts in schools at awards lunch

First Lady Michelle Obama took to an entertainment-industry pulpit in Los Angeles to stump for expanding the role of arts in education, saying that 6 million children in the U.S. have no exposure to any form of arts in school.

Los Angeles Times

India: Need for formalized music education

It is not often that you find your teacher using a keyboard instead of a blackboard, but no one's complaining at Goa University (GU).

The Times of India

UK: Charity gives springboard to aspiring young musicians

During the Second World War, the great violinist and educator Yehudi Menuhin played concerts for Allied troops and travelled to Belsen concentration camp shortly after it was liberated to perform for surviving prisoners.

Herald Scotland

By | 25 jula, 2014|EMU|Nema komentara

‘Polifonia’ Final Conference – The Musician as Creative Entrepreneur

The concluding conference of the Polifonia Project working group dedicated to “Lifelong learning in Music: Educating for Entrepreneurship” will provide an opportunity for students, teachers, conservatoire directors, and music professionals from across Europe to come together to learn about, reflect upon, and  imagine the extensive possibilities offered by the many facets of musical entrepreneurship.

The “state of play” – a comprehensive reporting back on the working group’s activities and results – followed by two responses from respected professionals - will constitute our point of departure. Break-out sessions will offer opportunities to scan the entrepreneurial mindset within participants’ conservatoires and organizations; “Making it happen” will address everything from creating an artistic vision to realizing a business plan. A preliminary boot camp – our creative incubator – will allow 15 young musicians to develop their project with seasoned professionals, and to then present the results at the conference. The conference keynote will address entrepreneurship as a way of creating community and, in closing, we will explore the new beginnings these encounters suggest – be it for culture professionals, working musicians, or conservatoire teachers and leaders…

By | 16 jula, 2014|EMU|Nema komentara

Music World News 1

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In Focus

 

The Brisbane Declaration

'2020: a Sharpened Vision for the Musical World'

Paris, June 30, 2014 - As an international gathering of over one thousand music professionals, the 5th IMC World Forum on Music has invited, planned, heard, experienced, discussed, debated, consulted and taken notice of over one hundred presentations from all over the world highlighting different aspects of the 'ecosystem' of music in the second decade of the twenty-first century.

By | 16 jula, 2014|EMU|Nema komentara

Music World News 2

Music the artform and artists

By | 16 jula, 2014|EMU|Nema komentara

Willem van Moort elected to new EMC board

EMC Annual meeting on June 22nd in Bern, Switzerland, elected EMU presidium member Willem van Moort to the new EMC board for 2014-2016. Thus Willem succeeds to EMU president Helena Maffli who served on the EMC board from 2010 to 2014, and to EMU board member Timo Klemettinen who was President of EMC from 2008 until 2012.

This successful election ensures the sustainable involvement of EMU and the position of music education on the only existing platform for the entire European music sector.

Ian Smith (UK), Portfolio Manager Music & IP Development at Creative Schotland has been elected as the new EMC president.

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By | 7 jula, 2014|EMU|Nema komentara

The 39th EMU General Assembly 2014

The 39th EMU General Assembly 2014 will take place in Berlin on 5 and 6 December 2014.

By | 3 jula, 2014|EMU|Nema komentara

European Music School Union (EMU)

EMC Annual meeting on June 22nd in Bern, Switzerland, elected EMU presidium member Willem van Moort to the new EMC board for 2014-2016. Thus Willem succeeds to EMU president Helena Maffli who served on the EMC board from 2010 to 2014, and to EMU board member Timo Klemettinen who was President of EMC from 2008 until 2012.

This successful election ensures the sustainable involvement of EMU and the position of music education on the only existing platform for the entire European music sector.

Ian Smith (UK), Portfolio Manager Music & IP Development at Creative Schotland has been elected as the new EMC president.

By | 1 jula, 2014|EMU|Nema komentara

39th EMU General Assembly – 5 and 6 December 2014 in Berlin

Headlines of the programme

Friday 5 December 2014

Before 13.30   Arrival participants
14.00 - 17.30  General Assembly – Household Matters
19.00              Dinner

Saturday 6 December 2014

09.30 - 12.30   Open space working groups
14.00 - 17.30   Management capacity-building seminar 
                        ‘Development of National Music and Culture School Associations’

By | 26 juna, 2014|EMU|Nema komentara

Willem van Moort elected to new EMC board

EMC Annual meeting on June 22nd in Bern, Switzerland, elected EMU presidium member Willem van Moort to the new EMC board for 2014-2016. Thus Willem succeeds to EMU president Helena Maffli who served on the EMC board from 2010 to 2014, and to EMU board member Timo Klemettinen who was President of EMC from 2008 until 2012.

This successful election ensures the sustainable involvement of EMU and the position of music education on the only existing platform for the entire European music sector.

Ian Smith (UK), Portfolio Manager Music & IP Development at Creative Schotland has been elected as the new EMC president.

Read more

By | 26 juna, 2014|EMU|Nema komentara