Pre-Congress Workshop – MusiQuE

FOR REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS ONLY – English only

Workshop and training for Peer-Reviewers organized by MusiQuE – Music Quality Enhancement (the Foundation for Quality Enhancement and Accreditation in Higher Music Education)

Working Dinner for Pre-Congress Participants

In presence and Online on 25^th October
(Room 58)

17:00 – 18:00

18:00 – 19:30

 Continuation of the Pre-Congress Workshop – MusiQuE

 FOR REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS ONLY – English only

Workshop and training for Peer-Reviewers organized by MusiQuE – Music Quality Enhancement (the Foundation for Quality Enhancement and Accreditation in Higher Music Education)

In presence and Online on 25^th October

(Room 58)

   Pre Congress Workshops (in parallel) 

9:00: Registration starts

9:30 – 13:30: workshops

• SWING – a project to blend technology, innovative teaching methods and enhanced collaboration, tailoring technical development upon students and teachers needs and input – HYBRID workshop (9:30 – 13:30)
• EOALAB – make, collaborate, share! Perspectives on shared education using results of European Opera Academy’s EOALAB (9:30 – 13:00)
• SMS WG2 – Artistic Plurality and Inclusive Institutional Culture (9:30 – 13:00)
• HARMA + – European landscape of teaching practices and pedagogical innovation in HMEI’s – music theory fields (11:30 -13:30)

Are you interested in taking part in one of these workshop without taking part in the whole Congress? Please send your indication of interest to events@aec-music.eu

SWING: Hybrid (Room 162)

EOALAB: Only in presence (Room 163)

SMS WG2: Only in presence (Room 57)

HarMA+: Only in presence (Room 435)

 In presence (Vergaderzaal)

 In presence
(Canteen – Royal Conservatory Antwerp)

(Registration Desk)

(Registration Desk)

Opening Event

Music Performance

Words of welcome by:

• Stefaan De Ruyck, Director of the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (RCA)
• Cathy Berckx, Governor of the province of Antwerp and president of the Foundation of the Conservatoire
• Dan Dressen, President of NASM, United States
• Miranda Harmer, AEC student working group co-chair
• Eirik Birkeland, President of the AEC

Hybrid

 (in presence and streamed from Blauwe Zaal)

17:15 – 17:50

 Mokhallad Rassem, guest teacher at drama programme in RCA, Iraq

(speech in Flemish with English subtitles)

Introduction by Stefan Gies, AEC Chief Executive

Are you interested in proposing a topic and chair a discussion about it? Please send your indication of interest to events@aec-music.eu

19:15 – 20:00

Cirkel: Witte Zaaal
Another Sacre: Gele Zaal
Minor Characters: Zwarte Zaal

20:15

(Registration Desk)

09:00 –10:00

Music Introduction

Musicians as ‘makers in society’: A conceptual foundation for  contemporary professional higher music education– by Helena Gaunt, Chair of the SMS Working Group on the role of HMEIs in society and Principal at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

Respondents: 

Heinz Geuen, Director of the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Germany

Petra Ruth Alexandry, student at Royal Conservatoire The Hague

Ana Mateo, President of the Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestras and the manager of the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias – remote

Session moderated by Henrik Sveidahl, Danish Rhythmic Music Conservatoire

Hybrid

(in presence and streamed from Blauwe Zaal) 

10:15 – 11:30

1 – Bridging to society: Societal responsibility in the curriculum as a task of a Higher Education Institutions, with Pascal Gielen, Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts, Antwerp University, Lies Colman, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, and representatives of SMS WG1 on Music in Society, SMS WG7 Students (Eline Accoe) and SMS WG8 on Early Childhood Education (Michael Dartsch), 75 minutes 10:15 – 11:30

2a – Bridging diversity: How to recruit and include diverse artists in your student/teacher population? How to facilitate? Which are the needs? with SMS WG2 on Diversity and Inclusion (leader – Joshua Dickson and Stefan Heckel) and SMS WG7 Students (Mimi Harmer and Baptiste Grandgirard), and with Wouter Hillaert,  Royal Conservatoire Antwerp – 45  minutes 10:15 – 11:00

2b – A Green Conservatoire, by Stefaan de Ruyck, RCA Antwerp – 30 minutes, 11:00 – 11:30

3a – Bridging to the professional field: Making positive choices in multi-focused career development: a portfolio career, with SMS WG3 on Entrepreneurship (leader) and SMS WG8 on Early Childhood Education (Natassa Economidou) and SMS WG7 Students (Roberto Boschelli  and Camilla Overgaard) – 45 minutes 10:15 – 11:00

3b Transforming Performance Pedagogies: interactions between new technology and traditional methods, Diana Salazar and Christina Guillaumier, Royal College of Music, London – 30 minutes, 11:00 – 11:30

4 – Advocacy on European level – Acces to Culture & more: with representatives of AEC partner organisations active in the field of European cultural politics: Stefan Gies, AEC CEO, Gabriele Rosana, Culture Action Europe, Maria Hansen, ELIA, Till Skoruppa, EMU and with the online participation of Isolde Malmberg and Marina Gall, EAS,  and Katharina Weinert, EMC/IMC – 75 minutes, 10:15 – 11:30

5 – FAST45: Imagining Conservatoires of the Future, with Lena Gieseke, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF – 45 Minutes, 10:15 – 11:00

1 – Hybrid (in presence and streamed). Blauwe Zaal

2a – Only in presence (Witte Zaal)

2b – Only in presence (Witte Zaal)

3a – Only in presence (Gele Zaal)

3b – Only in presence (Gele Zaal)

4 – Only in presence (Zwarte Zaal)

5 – Only online (Zoom)

11:30 – 12:00

(Blauwe Foyer and Corridor)

and Online (Spatial Chat)

12:00 – 13:15

1 – Bridging all stakeholders in the institution: Towards an understanding of power relations in the context of Higher Music Education Institution. The Royal Conservatoire Antwerp’s Ethical Code and findings of the first PRIhME Stakeholder Assembly with PRIhME Project (leader Deborah Kelleher, Gretchen Amussen), SMS Diversity, Identity, Inclusiveness Working Group (David-Emil Wickström, Mojca Piskor, part of PRIhME), SMS Student Working Group (Baptiste Grandigrard) and Royal Conservatory Antwerp (Stefaan De Ruyck) 75 minutes, 12:00 – 13:15

2a – Bridging the student-teacher gap, part 1: Student Feedback and Evaluation, with SMS WG5 on Learning and Teaching (leader – Jon Helge Saetre and Susanne van Els) and SMS WG7 Students (Siri Storheim and Camilla Overgaard) and Jan Staes, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp – 45 minutes, 12:00 – 12:45

2b – Technology in Music Education in the 21st Century: SMS Project Findings and Thoughts, with SMS WG6 on Digitisation (Sandrine Desmurs and André Stärk) – 30 minutes 12:45 – 13:15

3 – Bridging institutions: how to set up simple joint subjects and modules between HEIs (on teacher level) – examples from METRIC,  European Opera Academy, News in Map and CNSMD Lyon coordinated by SMS WG4 on Internationalisation (leader – Christofer  Fredriksson), Isabelle Replumaz, Yiannis Mirallis, Carla Conti, Martin Prchal, Charlotte Saelemakers representatives from the projects. 75 minutes, 12:00 – 13:15

4 – Bridging live & digital: possibilities in Mozilla Hubs linked to research programme at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, with Ine Vanoeveren, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp (leader) and SMS WG6 on Digitisation (Matti Ruippo and Miranda Harmer). 75 minutes, 12:00 – 13:15

5 – New findings on aerosol transmission when making music, movie projection and Q&A– 45 minutes, 12:00 – 12:45

1 – Hybrid (in presence and streamed). Blauwe Zaal

2a – Only in presence (Witte Zaal)

2b – Only in presence (Witte Zaal)

3 – Only in presence (Gele Zaal)

4 – Only in presence (Zwarte Zaal)

5 – Only online (Spatial Chat)

 13:15 – 14:45

 or

 Break from the screen and time for lunch

Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp

                         (Blauwe Foyer and Corridor)

14:45 – 16:00

1 – Bridging research and artistic practice in a regular Bachelor and-Master programme. Presentation and discussion of examples from various HMEIs, in which the introduction to AR approaches and methods is a systematically embedded and mandatory component of a music performance curriculum, with members of the SMS WG5 on Learning and Teaching (Stefan Gies, Anna Maria Bordin and Lars Brinck), the AEC EPARM WG (Leader, Stephen Broad and Kevin Voets), Lies Colman, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and Martin Prchal, Royal Conservatoire The Hague. 75 minutes. 14:45 – 16:00

2a – Bridging the student-teacher gap, part 2: Exploring transferrable skills and their role in the development of an artist, with SMS WG3 on Entrepreneurship (leader, Vourneen Ryan and Camilla Overgaard) and WG5 on Learning  and Teaching (Siri Storheim). 45 minutes, 14:45 – 15:30

2b. Workshop – playing & learning by SMS WG5 – Learning & Teaching  (Siri Storheim and Susanne van Els) – 30 minutes, 15:30 – 16:00

3 – Building Bridges with Audiences: Utilising digital innovations, with SMS WG7 Students (leader – Mimi Harmer) with Leah Kurta, i2 Media Research Ltd, Annastina Haapasaari, Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Esther Viñuela Lozano, Reina Sofía School of Music, Tanya Vital – Actor, Digital Content Creator, and Writer. 75 minutes, 14:45 – 16:00

4 – Bridging programmes in a multidisciplinary Higher Education Institution: development of interdisciplinary skills in the bachelor-master program, with Jeroen Malaise & Steven Prengels (Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp) Jeffrey Sharkey (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) Michael Eidenbenz (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste)– 75 minutes. 14:45 – 16:00

1 – Hybrid (in presence and streamed). Blauwe Zaal

2a – Only in presence (Witte Zaal)

2b – Only in presence (Witte Zaal)

3 – Only online (Zoom)

4 – Only in presence (Gele Zaal)

(Blauwe Foyer and Corridor) and

Online (Spatial Chat)

 16:30 – 18:00

(please see Whova for countries division and rooms)

Online or in presence

18:00 – 19:15

In presence
(Conservatoire Canteen)

 9:00

(Registration Desk)

Music Introduction

Plenary presentations by AEC Member institutions and  Showcase of SMS outputs moderated by Deborah  Kelleher, AEC Vice President

In depth videos in Whova

 11:30 –12:00

Networking with Refreshments

In Presence (Blauwe Foyer and Corridor) and Online (Spatial Chat)

• Hybrid Future – digitisation in post-COVID times
• PreCollege – bridging the gap for high potential emerging music performers
• Future AEC working groups and platforms

 13:00 – 14:30

or

Break from the screen and time for lunch

(Blauwe Foyer and Corridor)

(online registration required)

(Blauwe Foyer and Corridor) and Online (Spatial Chat)

Cirkel: Witte Zaaal
Another Sacre: Gele Zaal
Minor Characters: Zwarte Zaal