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 …

“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 …

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 …

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.

Orkesten onder druk? Op zoek naar trends & ontwikkelingen in de HaFaBra-sector in Noord-Nederland.Presentatie tijdens projectweek Full-Size Conducting voor dirigenten blaasorkesten, orkestleden Koninklijke Militaire Kapel Johan Willem Friso, studenten en docenten.

Three ideas are central to this booklet. First, the teaching/learning process is seen as a multi-modal form of teaching/learning. A form of learning that is distributed over the entire body: a living process that requires a bodily attentiveness and dynamical attunement of both teacher and pupil. Second, …

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' …