How does artistic identity influence the self-confidence of music educators? What is the interconnection between the artistic and the teacher identity? What is actually meant by artistic identity in music education? What is a fruitful environment for the development of artistic self-confidence of music …

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 …

Rian de Waal (1958-2011) has written a book about the piano, and how the development of piano playing has been very much dependent upon musicians who were able to cross borders. In Metamorphoses, the Art of the Virtuoso Piano Transcription, De Waal takes us on a journey through the capricious history …

The present study attempts to explore the field of creative music workshops with the elderly. A growing amount of research has been carried out into running (creative) workshops, and besides we know a lot about the elderly and ageing. The aim of this research is to gather knowledge on the merging of …

This paper argues that a first step in finding a sustainable solution for the pressing global issue of ‘waste’, is to consider waste a value attribution rather than a material condition. Doing so means a shift in focus from finding more efficient ways to ‘clean up the mess’ to changing the way in which …

Autonoom kunstenaars en ontwerpers creëren artistieke beelden en/of ontwerpen rondom die beelden gebeurtenissen (events) met de bedoeling het publiek (de burgers) te confronteren met de wereld rondom. Mij interesseren vanuit het lectoraat Image in Context van het kenniscentrum Kunst en samenleving van …

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) was used to study the activation of cerebral motor networks during auditory perception of music in professional keyboard musicians (n=12). The activation paradigm implied that subjects listened to two-part polyphonic music, while either critically appraising …

Review van het boek van Leo Plenckers getiteld Arabische Muziek in het blad Kunstzone.

Paper for Onderzoeksconferentie Cultuureducatie en Amateurkunst, 24-11-2014, Utrecht.

Report on the current state of affairs on ethnomusicology in the Netherlands for international association ICTM