Paper presented at the 31st European Seminar in Ethnomusicology ESEM, Limerick (Ireland), 18/9/2015. This paper presents a case study of ‘Belinda’, a Dutch woman in her early sixties who considers herself at the same time as ‘un-musical’ and musically hyper-sensitive. She is neither an ‘outstanding performer’ …

Paper presented at the 43rd ICTM World Conference, 16-22 July 2015, Astana, Kazakhstan. The paper discusses some aspects of the shanty choir phenomenon in the Netherlands and contains a methodological discussion concerning ethnomusicology-at-home, 'neo-classical fieldwork' and the place of participant …

Invited lecture for Symposium CityProms, Leeuwarden, 26/6/2015

Guest blog (Dutch) on music education at Cultureel-Kapitaal-website of LKCA.

Heeft muziek een positief impact op hersenfunctie bij ouderen? Kan het de aanzet van geheugenverlies en dementie vertragen of zelfs verbetering veroorzaken? Studies van hersenplasticticiteit laten een effect van muziekbeoefening op hersenvolume zien. Bovendien blijkt het (procedural) muziekgeheugen veel …

Presentatie gehouden bij de opening van het Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre tijdens het Music, Health, and Wellbeing Symposium.

Gastcollege, Music Academy Sarajevo, 19-3-2015

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 …