Gastcollege, Music Academy Sarajevo, 17-3-2015

As a consequence of restructuring instrumental music education in the Netherlands, Art Centres increasingly cease to facilitate instrumental music lessons. As a consequence, instrumental teachers are no longer employed in these Centres and have started working as independent entrepreneurs now. The question …

Learning together: music teachers forming a community of practice.As a consequence of restructuring instrumental music education in the Netherlands, Art Centres increasingly cease to facilitate instrumental music lessons. As a consequence, instrumental teachers are no longer employed in these Centres …

Blog: Having a career with overlapping activities in today’s multi-faceted professional music practice requires musicians to exercise many roles at the same time, roles which extend beyond their artistic skills. Musicians need to be innovative, entrepreneurial and communicative, they need to be able …

“If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” Evert Bisschop Boele challenges this idea and thinks about new audiences for music in changing times. Evert is Professor (‘lector’) of New Audiences at the Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen in …

Lezing voor symposium met Friese muziekscholen, 5-2-2015

The new audience musician: an artistic response to societal change

Presentatie over dissertatie 'Musicking in Groningen' voor de cursus onderzoeksvaardigheden docenten aan Hanzehogeschool Groningen, 3/2/2015.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have continued to attract considerable media coverage as governments and universities respond to the open and online education movement. Three years after the MOOCs began its rise, it is clear that the HE institutions in the EU are gaining speed in this movement. This …

Het lectoraat Lifelong Learning in Music doet onderzoek naar de blaasmuzieksector, ook wel HaFaBra-sector genoemd. Verschillende actoren in de blaasmuzieksector signaleren dat de sector het moeilijk heeft, ondanks dat er ook orkesten zijn die het goed doen. In het deelonderzoek 'Focus op de dirigent' …