Overview

Reflect & React

How Artistic Research Empowers Musicians and Performing Artists at Higher Education Institutions

Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (Cologne, Germany)
12 – 13 May 2023

Friday 12 May 2023

13:00 Registration Foyer
14:00 – 14:30 Opening session

  • Music introduction:
    Sonate pour violoncelle et piano – Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

    II. Cavatine
    III. Ballabile

    Hedda Lydiana Aaland, Violoncello
    Antoine Chrétien, Klavier

  • Welcome words:
    Tilmann Claus (HfMT Cologne)
    Stefan Gies (AEC)
    Evelyn Buyken (HfMT Cologne, Forum Artistic Research)
 Chamber Music Hall
14:30 – 16:15 Exemplary outcomes from RAPP Lab and REACT

Stefan Östersjö, Gilvano Dalagna, Jorge Salgado Correia (REACt)
Evelyn Buyken, Jonathan Impett, Johannes Kretz, Theodore Parker, Sybille Fraquelli (RAPP Lab)

Q&A

 Chamber Music Hall
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee break Cafeteria
16:45 – 17:15 Poster presentation with contributions from:

Ettore Cauvin
Beatriz Galán
Francesco Marzano
Naomi Roeers
Elisa Rumici
Leon Salcedo
Adele Thoma
Izabela Trzebiatowska
Vera Plosila

 In front of the Cafeteria
17:15 – 18:30 Group-work with inputs on the following topics:

A: What is the role of reflection and reflexive methods in Artistic Research?
B: How can artistic research practices guide the design of study programmes, grades and curricula in Higher Music Education?

Group 1

Stefan Östersjö (REACt, Piteå) A
Tobias Hartmann and Sam Hopkins (Köln Media School) A
Arabella Pare (Karlsruhe) A
Hakan Ulus (Klagenfurt) B

Group 2

Paul Craenen (Den Haag, EPARM) A
Evelyn Buyken (Cologne, RAPP Lab) B
Anna Maria Bordin (Turin, EPARM) A
Peter Dejans (Ghent) A

 Group 1 – Room 13
Group 2 – Room 14
20:00 Hybrid concert with LoLa – A low latency, high quality audio/video transmission system for network musical performances and interaction developed by Conservatorio di Musica “Giuseppe Tartini” from Trieste (Italy) in collaboration with GARR, the Italian Research and Academic Network

Programme:
W. A. Mozart, Piano Quartet in g-minor KV 478
Peeter Margus (Violine, EAMT Tallinn)
Aiden James Sullivan (Viola, HfMT Cologne)
Louisa Kaltenbach (Violoncello, HfMT Cologne)
Mantas Šernius (piano, EAMT Tallinn)

Riho Esko Maimets (*1988), “Sinikõrgustele” (“Infinite Blue Heights”; 2019) for two pianos
Maila Laidna (piano 1, EAMT Tallinn)
Tao Hwang (piano 2, HfMT Cologne)

 Chamber Music Hall

 

Saturday 13 May 2023

 

9:00 Registration Foyer
9:30 – 10:30 Inputs on the following topics:

A: What is the role of reflection and reflexive methods in Artistic Research?
B: How can artistic research practices guide the design of study programmes, grades and curricula in Higher Music Education?

Barbara Lüneburg (Linz) A
Matthias Herrmann (Stuttgart, EPARM) B 
Jan Philipp Sprick (Hamburg) B 
Stephen Broad (Glasgow, EPARM) A

 Chamber Music Hall
10:30 – 11:15 World café-style feedback and identifying burning issues of Artistic Research Cafeteria
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break Cafeteria
11:45 – 12:30 Panel discussion:

Artistic Research at the interface between artistic practice, research and reaching

Stephen Broad (RCS Glasgow, EPARM)
Evelyn Buyken (HfMT Cologne)
Christian Fischer (Designated chair of the Rectors’ Conference of German Musikhochschulen)
Ivar Grydeland (Norwegian Academy of Music)
Stefan Östersjö (Piteå School of Music, Luleå University of Technology), et. al.
Vera Plosila (Orpheus Instituut)

Facilitator: Stefan Gies

 Chamber Music Hall
12:30 – 13:00 (Open) end – What’s next?

Musically farewell:

Kölner Saxophonquartett with Yen-Wei Chang (soprano), Christine Petersen (alto), Dominik Bökenkamp (tenor), Clara Munté Muñiz (baritone):

Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937): Introduction et variations sur une ronde populaire (1936)

 Chamber Music Hall