Seeing improvisation as something that really needs its place in conservatoire training and education may be more or less ‘new’. However improvisation itself is of course not at all new and has existed since as long as we can remember. I will not go into that any further, it would take not a single address …

This article explores the intersection between institutional hierarchies and learning at a UK conservatoire. Conceptualizing learning as a social practice situated in a hierarchical social space, the article draws on the theorization of Bourdieu to understand how students are positioned in the conservatoire …

Ouderen en muziek. Workshop at the ICON conference in Helsinki on Music and the Elderly. Het ICON seminar staat in het teken van onderzoek. We verkennen onder andere werkvormen en benaderingen die bruikbaar zijn voor onderzoek met musici. Tijdens de workshop ‘ouderen en muziek’ werken we met de intervisie …

Paper presented at international symposium ‘Dementia and Music. Research and Practice’. University of Vechta, Vechta, Germany, 21/9/2013. Paper argues that working with dementia for musicians and music students is important because it demands them to focus on the 'other' rather then on themselves and …

People’s stories lie at the heart of this paper – stories about how people with vision and creative energy use the arts to address some of the challenges arising from feelings of isolation and dislocation in society. People have to be given the opportunity to speak, to be listened to, so that their observations …

Presentatie in Management Team over proefschrift en de gevolgen daarvan voor het conservatorium.

Presentation on the doctoral research project 'Musicking in Groningen' for the course 'Research Skills for University Lecturers' of Hanzehogeschool Groningen, 30/06/2015.

Vortrag an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien, 11. Juni 2013.

Deze workshop geeft inzicht in het doen van biografisch onderzoek. Biografisch leren wordt allereerst beschouwd in samenhang met hoe dit van belang is voor educatie. Aan de hand van een onderzoek naar het biografisch leren van musici (Smilde 2009 en 2009a) wordt het biografisch onderzoek uitgelegd en …

Music makes a difference?! The values of music.Music and culture play a significant role in the political and societal development of a peaceful and integrative Europe. Music and its diverse expressions are extremely relevant for social cohesion, wellbeing and economic growth. What kind of an impact …