Net als taal en rekenen, berust het menselijke vermogen om muziek te maken op biologisch ontstane hersenfuncties. Op basis van kennis van de functionele organisatie van het brein is het te verwachten dat het beoefenen van muziek een gunstig effect zal hebben op het vermogen van de hersenstam om spraakgeluid …

Onderzoek heeft uitgewezen dat er twee soorten perceptie bestaan die langs gescheiden anatomische routes lopen en verschillende perceptuele doelen dienen. Deze routes staan bekend als de ventrale en dorsale route, of in de volksmond: de ‘wat’ en de ‘hoe’ route. De ventrale route staat ten dienste van …

“In-Between” is the title of this conference. If I am right, it focuses on the role of the artist as a middle-man, or middle-woman, between art and learner. It focuses, maybe, on the way artists are capable to transfer knowledge, skills, attitudes, insights, emotions of an artistic nature. And it focuses, …

Author version of opiniating article (Dutch) in national newspaper Trouw, appeared under the title 'Zingen, dat is beter dan muziekonderwijs'. Plea for singing in primary schools.

Guest lecture in Master Kunsteducatie, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, Groningen (NL), 20-10-2014.

Conference report ´The Musician as Creative Entrepreneur´, Polifonia 3, The Hague (NL), 19-20/9/2014.

It will be hard to find a Dutchmen under 50 years old who is not able to understand and speak English. Dutch pupils in secondary education spend about 4 hours a week studying grammar, reading texts, listening to conversations and giving presentations, all in English and that for four to six years. They …

Inklusive Musikpädagogik. Workshop given on Lifelong Learning and New Audiences at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz showcasing several projects of the research group Lifelong Learning in Music: Music& Dementia, the development of the Master NAIP, Opera on the Bus, the Cross Arts Laboratory, …

Article (Dutch) in newspaper Friesch Dagblad on the relationship between musicians and their audiences.

Building on burgeoning research in the field of arts and health, this article explores the role that learning musical instruments can play in enhancing wellbeing in older adulthood. Despite an increasing focus on the role of learning in supporting mental wellbeing, there is strikingly little research …