AEC POP & JAZZ PLATFORM MEETING 2022
10 – 13 February (Łódź)
Thursday 10
Pre-conference sessions of the following groups:
| 15:00 – 17:00 | Students meeting | Hybrid |
| 17:00 -19:00 | Three parallel sessions:
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1. Online 2. Hybrid 3. Hybrid |
| 19:00 – 19:30 | Wrap up | Hybrid |
Friday 11
| 9:00 | Registration opens | |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Presentation of AEC and PJP and informal networking with PJP WG members
– short presentation of the AEC and the PJP Working Group – Q&A with the PJP Working Group members |
Hybrid |
| From 9:30 | Coffee Available | Concert Hall (First floor) |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | Opening Session
Music Introduction Ziemia Opening remarks by ● Elżbieta Aleksandrowicz, rector of the University of Music in Lodz ● Hanna Zdanowska – Mayor of Łódź ● Adam Manijak, Dean of the Faculty of Jazz and Popular Music ● Rico Gubler, AEC Council member ● Linda Bloemhard, Chair of the PJP Working Group |
Hybrid |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | Plenary Session I
In conversation with Tigran Hamasyan Prepared with Błażej Szyzdek, Błażej Kozłowski, Adam Jeleniewski (students of the University of Music in Lodz), and AEC PJP Working Group member Susanne Abbuehl |
Hybrid |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Breakout Groups with PJP Working Group members | In presence + fully online |
| 13:30 – 14:45 | Lunch | Foyer |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Surprise activity | In presence |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Keynote
Plenary Session II Music, physics, mathematics and psychoacoustics. How to apply our knowledge about science in music education. Presentation by dr. hab Rafał Sarnecki (Academy of Music in Lodz) |
Hybrid |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Networking with Refreshments | Foyer |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | New connections | Hybrid |
| 19:00 | Dinner for all participants | Palace Gdanska 32 |
Saturday 12
| 9:15 – 9:45 | Optional tour of the facilities | (Palace at Gdanska 32) |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Plenary Session III
Kamila Drabek and Patrycja Wybrańczyk, members of O.N.E. female jazz ensemble |
Hybrid |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | Pick up coffee and go to open floor parallel sessions | |
| 11:10 – 13:00 | Open Floor
1 a. GOING PRO: Lessons from Successful Graduates of Popular Music Programs (Richard Smith, Thornton LA ) 1 b. International jam sessions or “House of Europe XXL” 2 a. Trailing the Jazz Workshop: Developing a pedagogy for the large jazz ensemble within higher music education (Johansen, Guro Gravem; Jordhus, Tone; Halle, Morten, NMH Oslo) 2 b. GENUS conference (Lars Andersson, Malmö ) 3 a. The Rotterdam Arts and Sciences Lab: where Arts and Sciences meet (Renske Wassink, Codarts Rotterdam) 3 b. Make the exchange more accessible |
Hybrid |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch | Palace (Gdanska 32) |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Plenary Session IV
Artist as entrepreneur and innovator – How management skills and knowledge of new technologies can support an artist’s career development Presentation by Marek Hojda and Tamara Kamińska (Music Export Poland), followed by Q&A |
Hybrid |
| 15:05 – 15:45 | News in Map – Results of the Erasmus+ project on self-leadership in music
Introduction by Carla Conti (Project Manager) and the presentation by the students: Elisabetta SCALAMACCHIA, Matteo CAPPELLA, Pamela PLACITELLI, Jacopo TUZI, Raphael PY AUDI (Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia Rome) |
Hybrid |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Information forum + market | Hybrid |
| 16:45 – 17:30 | Discussion Groups –
reflection on the conference and future topics |
Only in person + only online |
| 17:30 – 18:15 | Closing Session
Music introduction Marcel Baliński Trio
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Hybrid |
| From 18:15 | Free time / dinner |
Sunday 13 – VoCon (hybrid)
VoCon is a Europe-wide platform for vocal Jazz, Pop and all interested teachers in higher music education. It provides the need for sharing good practice, thoughts on education, and differences in vision and mission in the various European countries. It is a very personal practice-based platform that aims to connect professional teachers in higher education on a ‘person to person’ base. It is a learning community, practicing what it preaches and also provides and protects free space for sharing topics that emerge on the spot. All sessions will be hybrid.
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Greeting and introduction to newcomers |
| 9:15 – 10:00 | Welcome presentation by voice teachers and students from Akademia Muzyczna im. Grazyny i Kiejstuta Bacewiczow, Łódź (Poland) |
| 10:00 – 11:00 | The First Sound: Images and Thoughts about Voice and Identity,
Diana Torti, (WM College/London Performing Academy of Music, London – UK) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Open Floor Session I
HI-STORY Annemarie Maas (HKU, Utrecht – The Netherlands) |
| 12:00 – 12:45 | Open Floor Session II
Vocal Technique and Music – Separate Teaching Content or Inseparable Parts of Singing? Susanna Mesiä (Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki – Finland) |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Planning VoCon future meetings |
