AEC POP & JAZZ Platform Meeting 2015 AEC Higher Music ... · AEC: the leading voice for Higher Music Education in Europe AEC Pop & Jazz Platform Meeting Valencia 13-14 February 2015

AEC: the leading voice for

Higher Music Education

in Europe

AEC Pop & Jazz Platform Meeting

Valencia 13-14 February 2015

AEC POP & JAZZ Platform Meeting 2015

Introductory session for first-time delegates

Valencia, 13-14 February 2015

AEC Pop & Jazz Platform Meeting Valencia 13-14 February 2015

The AEC

• Vision, Mission and Aims

• Events

• Organisational structure

• What can AEC do for you?


AEC Vision and Mission

• to be the leading voice for European Higher Music Education and a powerful advocate for all that is best in it throughout the world

• working for the advancement of European Higher Music Education and, more generally, of music, the arts and culture in contemporary society and for future generations


AEC Aims and Objectives

• Support and Information for Members

• Events and Networking

• External Links

• Advocacy



• Support and Information for Members: Addressing the needs, wishes and priorities of its member

institutions while providing informed advice that helps to

shape those priorities in the direction of advancing

European Higher Music Education as a whole

• Events and Networking: Providing a range of

platforms for the exchange of experiences and ideas

between member institutions and for the identification

and sharing of best practice in European Higher Music

Education



• External Links: Connecting member institutions with

other organisations and individuals in Europe and

internationally who are active in areas relevant to the

advancement of European Higher Music Education

• Advocacy: Representing and advancing the interests

of the Higher Music Education sector at national, European

and international levels


AEC Events

• Annual Congress: representatives of all

member institutions meet to discuss specific themes, to exchange information and to broaden their professional and personal networks

• Annual Meeting for International Relations Coordinators: forum for

conservatoire staff dealing with student and teacher exchanges


AEC Events

Workshops, seminars and platforms on specific subjects:

• Pop & Jazz Platform

• Early Music Platform

• European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM)


AEC Organisational structure

General Assembly (All AEC members))




AEC Council (12 representatives +1)





AEC Chief Executive and

AEC Office Team






AEC Office Team

Pool of volunteers taking part in AEC Developmental Working Groups






AEC Office Team

Pool of volunteers taking part in AEC Developmental Working Groups


AEC Council 2015 President: Pascale de Groote, Antwerp, Belgium

Vice-Presidents: Eirik Birkeland, Oslo, Norway Georg Schulz, Graz, Austria

Secretary General: Jörg Linowitzki, Lübeck, Germany

Council Members: Harrie Van Den Elsen, Groningen, Netherlands

Kaarlo Hilden, Helsinki, Finland

Deborah Kelleher, Dublin, Ireland

Grzegorz Kurzyński, Wroclaw, Poland

Claire Mera Nelson, London, UK

Jacques Moreau, Lyon, France

Antonio Narejos Bernabéu, Murcia, Spain

Evis Sammoutis, Nicosia, Cyprus

AEC Office Team

Ángela Domínguez Polifonia Project

Manager

Jef Cox Student Intern

Beatrice Miari Student Intern

Nerea López de Vicuña Office Coordinator

Sara Primiterra Events Manager

Linda Messas General Manager Bárbora Vlasova

Polifonia Project Coordinator

Jeremy Cox Chief Executive


What can AEC do for you?

• Strength in Numbers: nearly 300 members

• Information sharing: AEC Website and database

• Getting together: Annual Congress

IRC meeting

Platforms

• Breaking new ground: engaging pro-actively with HE reforms, especially through projects

• Publications: handbooks for member institutions and the staff working in them

http://www.aec-music.eu/

http://www.aec-music.eu/


What can AEC do for you?

• Counselling & advice: harnessing the specialist knowledge now held amongst its members

• Quality Enhancement & Accreditation:

specially tailored quality enhancement procedures – and a new independent QE and Accreditation agency

• Reaping the benefits: special members rates and an exclusive members’ domain on the AEC website


Thank you, and enjoy the meeting!

Visit www.aec-music.eu



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Introductory session for first-time delegates




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Welcome everyone



Musical Introduction

“Drones Over Valencia" multimedia composition and performance by

Francisco Rafart 12-string stick guitar & Orbit controller


STEFAN HECKEL

Opening Remarks by:

PJP Chairman


Opening Remarks by:

Berklee Valencia

MARIA ITURRIAGA and

BRIAN COLE


GEORG SCHULZ

Opening Remarks by:

Kunstuniversität Graz

AEC Vice-President


JEREMY COX

Opening Remarks by:

AEC Chief Executive

Beehive 1

How do you address the issue of identities at your institution?


Global Jazz: Seeking Diversity, Identity and Social Change Through

Music and Its Audiences

Plenary Session I

Presentation and Musical Performance by

Danilo Perez, Keynote Speaker

Q&A moderated by Brian Cole, Berklee Valencia


NETWORKING WITH REFRESHMENTS


The Berklee College of Music in Valencia

by Maria Martinez Iturriaga


BAR CAMP 1

Introduction by Udo Dahmen and topics presentation and

selection


BAR CAMP 1. How can the audience participate

in new ways in concerts? Interact?

Ola Bengtsson

Royal College of Music in Stockholm


BAR CAMP

2. Dance music and Conservatoires

Carlo De Wijs

Codarts Rotterdam


BAR CAMP

3. The differences in educating (future) jazz-musicians and pop-

musicians.

Giel Dekkers

The Real Band, Amsterdam


BAR CAMP

4. The role of technology in popular music studies and performance

Adam Martin

Leeds College of Music


BAR CAMP

5.

Education vs Industry

Instrumentalist vs Creator/Writer

Brian Zalmijn

Codarts, Rotterdam


BAR CAMP

6. Transcultural music: are there limits to mixing?

Frederic Deval

Fondation Royaumont, Paris


BAR CAMP

7. The Musician and Entrepreneurship: how

could/should AEC-PJP and the institutions involved carry on with this important theme after the

termination of the corresponding AEC-Polifonia sub-project?

Jere Laukkanen

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki


BAR CAMP

8. Academicism in Jazz and Real Life

Teresa Lujan,

Conservatorio Superior de Navarra, Pamplona


BAR CAMP

9.

Inspiring students away from the class room. Discussing the role of the mentor

away from the institute.

Jamil Sheriff

Leeds College of Music


BAR CAMP

10. What is most needed in teacher-training for jazz and pop?

Simon Purcell

Trinity Laban London


BAR CAMP

11. How to encourage women in Jazz and Pop studies

Hannie Van Veldhoven

HKU Utrechts Conservatorium


BAR CAMP

And now…VOTE! You received 10 post it

Vote your favourite/s topic/s. The 6 most voted will be discussed in groups tomorrow

NB: You will have the opportunity to discuss only one topic but you can vote for more than one


SPEED DATING

MEET NEW COLLEGUES!


PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Tomorrow 9:00 - Posters, video and presentations of projects in the lobby of Martin Soler 9.25 – Plenary Session in Martin Soler

Tonight 19:30 - Concert in Martin Soler Hall Free Evening (please see the List of Restaurants in the Reader)



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Conservatoires as Innovators and Audience Developers: the PJP within

the AEC’s “FULL SCORE” Project

Jeremy Cox

AEC Chief Executive


Background to ‘FULL SCORE’

• A project under the new ‘Creative Europe’ programme (2014-20) in the line ‘Support to European Networks’

• This line has three key aims:

‘providing cultural and creative players with skills, competences and know-how that contribute to strengthening the cultural and creative sectors’



‘enabling cultural and creative players to cooperate internationally and to internationalise their careers and activities’

‘strengthening European cultural and creative organisations and international networking in order to facilitate access to professional opportunities’



• FULL SCORE explicitly addresses the first aim in its full title:

FUlfiLLing the Skills, COmpetences and know-how Requirements of cultural and creative players in the European music

sector



• FULL SCORE runs from September 2014 to the end of August 2017

• Most of its outputs are closely linked to AEC’s events, especially the Congress, IRC meeting and PJP Platform

• It also features a joint project with EAS and EMU on quality assurance


Objectives of ‘FULL SCORE’

A. To strengthen and connect the levels and branches of the music education sector

B. To strengthen and connect the quality enhancement frameworks surrounding all levels of music education

C. To ensure a full and effective engagement of conservatoire leaders in the development of a European Agenda for Music



D. To help cultural and creative players to internationalise their careers and activities

E. To share examples of innovative approaches

F. To draw upon the perspectives of young musicians







An action linking the Boards of all three organisations (AEC, EAS and EMU) and building future strategies







A joint action with EAS and EMU on evaluation of the development of musicians’ skills, competences and know-how spanning HME, pre-college ME and Music Pedagogy







An action engaging the views of conservatoire leaders in the formation of a European Agenda for Music, in conjunction with EMC







An action that will provide the network of IRCs with a new and more powerful information infrastructure, combining capacity-building sessions with the development of online tools for helping musicians and music teachers to internationalise their careers



E. To share examples of innovative approaches to genre diversification, contemporary orientation and cultural stimulation



E. To share examples of innovative approaches to genre diversification, contemporary orientation and cultural stimulation

An action based on a 3-year planned sequence of PJP meetings, elaborating these themes in a connected and cumulative way and featuring a seminal joint meeting with EJN and IASJ in 2016



F. To draw upon the perspectives of young musicians to enrich the debate about engaging in new and innovative ways with audiences and facilitating access to professional opportunities



F. To draw upon the perspectives of young musicians to enrich the debate about engaging in new and innovative ways with audiences and facilitating access to professional opportunities

An action that builds ambitiously upon the AEC’s action plan for student involvement (2013) and embeds this within AEC events and activities for the period 2014-2017 (work will include outreach to the European Student Union, European Youth Forum, European Music Council’s Youth Committee, IMC Youth and Jeunesses Musicales International)


Audience Development

• Audience development is an important new priority in Creative Europe which helps European artists/cultural professionals and their works reach as many people as possible across Europe and extend access to cultural works to under-represented groups. It also seeks to help cultural organisations adapt to the need to engage in new and innovative ways with audiences both to retain them, to build new audiences, diversify audiences including reaching current "non-audiences", and to improve the experience for both existing and future audiences and deepen the relationship with them.


Objective E: actions in 2014-15

• Adopting a 3-year strategy (The Audience [Re-]engaged) to widen the scope of the AEC PJP meeting across this period

• Organising the first meeting of this strategic initiative

• Producing the first Platform ‘bulletin’

• Taking forward liaison with EJN and IASJ



• Delivering jointly with EJN and IASJ a PJP platform on musical ‘ecosystems’ and audiences, as part of the strategy The Audience [Re-]engaged

• Producing second Platform bulletin

• Implementing an agenda for continued cooperation with EJN and IASJ



• Organising the final meeting of the 3-year strategy The Audience [Re-]engaged, addressing the roles of contemporary musicians as cultural citizens and leaders

• Producing a final publication on audience development with reflections drawn from all three Platform meetings



• Producing a new strategy for 2018-2020, including structured cooperation with EJN and IASJ


FUlfiLLing the Skills, COmpetences and know-how Requirements of cultural and creative players in the European music

sector


FULL SCORE


Plenary Session II

Music Performance

"Beatrice“ by Sam Rivers

(Arranged in Flamenco buleria style by Sergio Martinez)

Wycliffe Gordon II tenor saxophone

Yuri Storione piano

George Lacson bass

Sergio Martinez cajón

Beehive 2

How do you work with diversity at your school?


Plenary Session II

Jazz, Pop and ME: connecting artists and audiences

Moderated by Hannie Van Veldhoven, Utrechts Conservatorium and Simon Purcell, Trinity Laban London

• Merlijn Twaalfhoven, Netherlands • Muhammad Mughrabi, Palestine • Scott Cohen (Orchard), US/Spain • David Linx, Belgium

Panel Discussion


PRACTICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

We now go to the Cantina for • Coffee Break, 11:30 – 12:00 • World Café Discussion, 12:00 – 13:00

Bar Camp Topics Discussion 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Cantina 14:00 – 15:30 –you will be given a voucher at the entrance Activity Sessions 15:30 – 16:30, indicated on your badge Closing Session Martin Soler 17:00 – 17:45


NOW COFFEE BREAK!

LET’S WALK TO THE CANTINA



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CLOSING SESSION



News From The VOCON, The Pop And Jazz Vocal Teachers

Network

Closing Session


Please fill in your PARTICIPANT

QUESTIONNAIRE

Closing Session


NEWS FROM THE AEC AND ITS PROJECTS: ‘POLIFONIA’ AND

‘FULL SCORE’

Closing Session


AEC Council 2015 President: Pascale de Groote, Antwerp, Belgium

Vice-Presidents: Eirik Birkeland, Oslo, Norway Georg Schulz, Graz, Austria

Secretary General: Jörg Linowitzki, Lübeck, Germany

Council Members: Harrie Van Den Elsen, Groningen, Netherlands

Kaarlo Hilden, Helsinki, Finland

Deborah Kelleher, Dublin, Ireland

Grzegorz Kurzyński, Wroclaw, Poland

Claire Mera Nelson, London, UK

Jacques Moreau, Lyon, France

Antonio Narejos Bernabéu, Murcia, Spain

Evis Sammoutis, Nicosia, Cyprus

AEC Office Team

Ángela Domínguez Polifonia Project

Manager

Jef Cox Student Intern

Beatrice Miari Student Intern

Nerea López de Vicuña Office Coordinator

Sara Primiterra Events Manager

Linda Messas General Manager Bárbora Vlasova

Polifonia Project Coordinator

Jeremy Cox Chief Executive


Upcoming Events in 2015

European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM)

University of Performing Arts KUG

Graz, 23-25 April 2015

EPARM

April 23 – 25, 2015

(Re-)processing Research –

Musical Practice as both Source and

Target domain for Artistic Research

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EPARM

April 23 – 25, 2015

(Re-)processing Research –

Musical Practice as both Source and

Target domain for Artistic Research

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Meeting for International Relations Co-ordinators

Ionian University of Corfu

Corfu, 25-27 September 2015



Meeting for International Relations Co-ordinators

Ionian University of Corfu

Corfu, 25-27 September 2015



Annual Congress and General Assembly

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Glasgow, 12-14 November 2015



Annual Congress and General Assembly

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Glasgow, 12-14 November 2015



Early Music Platform

In conjunction with Collegium Marianum and REMA at the Academy of Performing Arts

Prague, 20-21 November 2015



Early Music Platform

In conjunction with Collegium Marianum and REMA at the Academy of Performing Arts

Prague, 20-21 November 2015


Latest developments in Quality Assurance

Launch of MusiQuE

– European External Evaluation Body for Quality Enhancement in Music

o An independent European-level subject-specific external evaluation body

o Its aim:

• To assist institutions in quality enhancement

• To improve quality of higher music education as a whole

o MusiQuE takes over and develops AEC review responsibility (29 reviews since 2008)

o Various services with one philosophy

What is MusiQuE –

Music Quality Enhancement?

o Continuation of: • Institutional and programme reviews

• Joint procedures with national agencies

o New services: • Reviews of joint programmes

• Accreditation procedures

• Quality Assurance Desk

o All procedures have the same principle: • Self-study

• Visit of peer-review team

• Report of the peer-review team

The MusiQuE Procedures

o Independence is needed for making

objective assessments

o It is an important principle of the European

Standards & Guidelines for QA agencies

(ESG)

o We don’t want the collegial and inclusive

nature of AEC to be compromised

Why is it important for MusiQuE to

be independent?

o MusiQuE board: 5 members appointed by

AEC (3), EMU and Pearle* (I each)

o Supporting staff (normally seconded from

AEC Office)

o Peer-reviewers register

The MusiQuE board is responsible for

overseeing all MusiQuE activities

The structure of MusiQuE

o Institutions can use MusiQuE services and benefit from: • Advice from international specialists

• The use of internationally accepted standards

• An emphasis on improvement

• Helping to establish an international reputation

• A comparable approach that will build trust

• MusiQuE’s flexible structure with diverse services

• Guidance with targeted advice and professional development

o Staff and students will benefit from the QA Desk

o National QA and accreditation agencies

Who can use MusiQuE and what

are the benefits?

o MusiQuE as the ‘go-to’ provider for review and accreditation in music • Completion of EQAR registration – necessary in

order to do formally-recognised accreditation procedures

o Extending MusiQuE standards to pre-college training and music teacher training

o Potentially also supporting procedures in multi-disciplinary institutions with various performing arts disciplines

MusiQuE’s future development


AEC Projects: ‘Polifonia’ (2011-14)

• Assessment and standards

– Report on existing assessment methods and procedures in HME

– Checklist for internal assessment systems in HME institutions

– Description of seminar model for assessments and standards

• Artistic Research

– Handbook on 2nd cycle HME programmes as routes to artistic

Doctorates

– Database - European register of Students projects/supervisors for

Artistic Research in Music

´Polifonia´ Outcomes… completed and soon to be online!

• Benchmarking:

– Short Guide Learning from each other - Sharing good practice through

benchmarking

• Quality enhancement

– Standards for review of HME institutions, programmes and joint

programmes

• Entrepreneurship

– Online Handbook on Entrepreneurship in HME


• Mobility and joint degrees

– Step by Step: Guidelines for Erasmus+ Mobility Actions

– Report on external examining arrangements in HME

– Handbook on mobility and recognition issues in European joint

programmes

– Online tools for mobility (common deadline)



AEC Projects: ‘FULL SCORE’ (2014-17)



• Runs from September 2014 to August 2017

• Half-way through first year - building momentum

• PJP an important focus for the work

• Other areas of the project will be taken forward through Congress and IRC meeting



• One action especially worth communicating to colleagues: Jobs Vacancies service on AEC website

• Currently modest

• We hope by 2017 to have developed it into the ‘go-to’ site for employment opportunities in Europe in the field of higher music education


And talking of Job vacancies...





• Closing date 8th March 2015


ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE PJP PLATFORM 2016

Closing Session


THE PJP PLATFORM 2016 joint meeting PJP – EJN - IASJ

Closing Session

CODARTS Rotterdam, The Netherlands

12-13 February 2016


CLOSING REMARKS

Closing Session


Thank you!

See you in Rotterdam!



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