Dear
Reader,
Now that
the ash cloud has cleared, we look back at a successful European Forum
on Music
in Vienna,
where a new Board of the EMC was elected. We would like to invite you
to have a
look at the extensive online documentation of the forum.
The
International Music Council’s results of the International
Rostrum of Composers
are presented as well as the nomination for the Musical Rights Award is
opened.
The EMC took part in the Culture Sector Platforms and reports back on
the
findings and future policy issues. And last but not least we would like
to draw
your attention to the up-coming Access! event that is being organised
by the
WGY of the European Music Council and that will take place in Turin,
Italy. So
please spread the word about Access! among the young people interested
in
music.
Enjoy
reading the EMC Newsletter,
With kind regards,
Secretary General
Policy and Communication
Secretary General Development and Finances
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| European
Forum on
Music
- Looking Back, Looking Forward |
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The
European Forum on Music hosted by the European
Music Council (EMC), the Austrian Music Council and the University of
Music and
Performing Arts in Vienna, was an event that will surely linger in the
minds of
the participants for a long time to come.
The theme of the forum entitled ‘Musical Diversity:
Looking back, Looking forward‘, encouraged the delegates from
nearly 30
countries to reflect on how musical diversity has developed over the
past
decade and how they and their organisations can help shape the future.
Discussions were held on the roles that education, the digital
environment, the
EU 2020 Strategy, the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion
of the
Diversity of Cultural Expressions, and cities have in promoting musical
diversity.
The conclusions and recommendations from these
discussions include the idea of the introduction of ‘culture
impact assessment';
that regulators should be required to prove that their measures have
positive
effects; that EMC members' activities should focus on the field of
music
education; that the EMC should play a key role in redefining the UNESCO
Roadmap
for Arts Education; and that advocacy work should be governmentally
holistic,
going beyond the ministries for culture and education.
Alongside
the forum, elections for the EMC Board
2010–2012 were held. The new board consists of Timo
Klemettinen (Finland),
Christian Höppner (Germany), Stef Coninx (Belgium), Erling
Aksdal (Norway),
Helena Maffli-Nissinen (Switzerland/Finland), Frank Stahmer (Austria)
and Kaie
Tanner (Estonia), as well as a co-opted member of the Working Group
Youth, Claire
Goddard (UK/Germany)
For
more information on the European Forum on Music
and other EMC activities, please visit www.emc-imc.org
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| European Youth Forum on
Music
– Access! |
Access!
European Youth Forum on Music – Registration
now open!
Access!,organised
by the Working Group Youth of the EMC, is now open for registration.
The first
European Youth Forum on Music, taking place October 15-17 in the
Italian city
of Turin, invites young Europeans with diverse backgrounds in music to
participate. The three-day programme offers interactive sessions guided
by
professionals from the field. One outcome of the project will be the
creation
of the European
Agenda for Youth and
Music, a document outlining
young people’s
aspirations in the music field
in Europe and beyond. Programme and registration: http://www.emc-imc.org/working-group-youth/access/
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Results
of the 2010 International
Rostrum of Composers
Ouvertures
(Part 1) (2008)
for Guzheng, sampler and orchestra by Danish composer Simon
STEEN-ANDERSEN (born
1976) and Twilight
Chants (2009)
for mixed choir, double bass and
glasses by young Latvian composer Kristaps PETERSONS
(born
1982) are the
works which were honoured by the radio music producers participating in
the 57th
International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) held at the Calouste
Gulbenkian
Foundation in Lisbon, on May 31-June 4, 2010. A flagship programme of
the
International Music Council, this year’s IRC edition was
co-organised for the
first time by Portuguese Radio stations(RTP, Antena 2).
The
2010
Rostrum brought together representatives from 31 national radio
networks from
four continents, presenting 67 works composed within the five years
preceding
the Rostrum. The sessions were chaired by Finnish Radio Executive
Producer
Heikki Valsta . One of the most important projects promoting
contemporary
music creation via radio broadcasting within the last 50 years, the
Rostrum has
been fulfilling an additional mission since 2003: to become a forum
for professional
exchange among radio music
producers. Nevertheless, its central purpose, supported closely by the
European
Broadcasting Union, is to provide contemporary music creations with the
largest
possible number of broadcasts worldwide. For instance, the works
presented at
the 2009 Rostrum received almost 500 broadcasts via the participating
radio
networks as well as others broadcasters; the winning works from the two
categories in 2009 were broadcast by as many as 28 radio
stations. For
more information visit: http://www.imc-cim.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=322&Itemid=2
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Save
the
Date! 4th
IMC World Forum on Music and 34th
General Assembly
of the IMC
September
26 – October 2, 2011,
Tallinn, Estonia,
organised jointly by the International Music
Council
and the Estonian Music Council.
The
overall
theme of the forum will be ‘Music & Social
Change’ and the following
thematic areas will be dealt with more in-depth:
- Education
(formal, informal, non-formal,
e-learning, the multi-task musician)
- New
technology
- Composition/performance
- Development
programmes
- Youth’s
perception
The
forum
will include a music programme, with staged performances, symphonic and
choral
works, chamber music, Gregorian chant, traditional music, folk music,
media
arts, and electronic music, performed by professional musicians, young
artists
and by youth projects at various locations in and around the
city.
The IMC
General Assembly will take place during the mornings of October 1 and
2.
In
the
afternoon and evening of October 1, participants are invited to
attend a
diverse range of concerts throughout the city of Tallinn, organised by
the
Estonian Music Council and its members and partners, in celebration of
International Music Day.
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IMC Board Meeting to take place in
Douala,
Cameroon
The
IMC Executive Board will
meet on
November 14-20
2010
in Douala, Cameroon;
coinciding with the African Musics Market Le
Kolatier.
As IMC records
suggest,
this will
be the first meeting
of an official IMC organ to take place in Africa. For this occasion, the President of the
African Music Council, Lupwishi Mbuyamba, will organise as many
meetings with
current and potential members in Africa as possible, as well as with
musical
authorities. This meeting will demonstrate the
importance of Africa for the IMC, and
reflect the IMC's appreciation for the continent’s active
participation in all
its activities.
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EU
Culture Platforms
From
8-10
June 2010 the
European Commission hosted plenary meetings of all three Culture Sector
Platforms. After the publications of the Recommendations of the
platforms in
2009, the discussions centred on the future: what activities to take
and what
are future policy implications to relate to – also what is
the
interest of the
European Commission that originally set up the platforms? You may read
an
in-depth summary here.
The
first
section of the summary “background” takes you back
to the origins of the
platforms and its context – the European agenda for Culture.
The second part
reports back about the plenary meetings that were held in June 2010 and
the
third part gives an outlook what is next on the political agendas for
culture
in an EU context.
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Green
Paper on Culture Industries
The
European Commission published
its Green paper entitled 'Unlocking
the potential
of
cultural and creative
industries'.
Key areas of the document are: the creative production chain, creative
partnerships between art (hopefully also including music in the term
“art”)
schools, education institutions and businesses and the mobility of
cultural
works and artists.
Thegreen
paper and an instruction how to participate in the consultation is
available at http://ec.europa.eu/culture/our-policy-development/doc2577_en.htm.
The consultation
is
open until 30
July.
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The European
Association of
Music in
Schools (EAS) 18th
annual international conference held in Bolu, Turkey was termed a great
success,
with c.180 delegates. Presentations, keynotes and workshops addressed
the theme
of the influence of social-cultural change on music education. The EAS
Student
Forum included 30 student teachers from 13 different countries. The
conference
strengthened the EAS network and provided rich opportunities for those
who were
visitors to learn much about music and music education in Turkey.
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International Association
for
Music Information Centres
The
World Soundtrack
Awards, an awards presentation
honouring the best in film music, established by the Ghent
International Film
Festival's World Soundtrack Academy in 2001, has announced an all-star
line-up
to usher in its 10th year. Ten world class composers will be appearing
live in
concert at the awards presentation in Ghent, Belgium on October 23rd.
Visit www.filmfestival.be
and www.worldsoundtrackacademy.com
for more information.
The
IAMIC's Virtual Composers In Residence Programme creates
a special platform for composers of all genres,allowing them to share
and
publish information about their work and development. Two composers,
from
different countries, are given one month to share their thoughts,
ideas, works
and inspiration. The conversation is public and open for public
comments. The
composers in residence from May 15 are
Robert
Davidson (Australia) and José Evangelista (Canada). For more
info: http://www.iamic.net/news/iamic/virtual-residence.
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The MORE (Music Orality
Routes
Europe) project,
supported by the Culture Programme 2007-2013, seeks to encourage
innovative
initiatives in the field of music education based on the intercultural
potential of the range of traditional music active in Europe.Cité de la
musique
and the five MORE partners take
this opportunity to share experiences, undertake exemplary actions
through two
summer schools (Transcultural Workshops in Roots & Routes
Summer School in
Rotterdam(NL) July-August 2010 and Folworks Summer School in Durham
(UK) August
2010), encourage participants to think and develop their ideas and
experiences
through two symposiums and a final conference.
http://www.music-orality-roots.eu/sites/default/files/newsletter/newsletter1_en.htm
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Following
two
editions in Helsinki and Glasgow, during
which several hundred participants from across the whole European
contemporary
music community got to enjoy the ARTMUSFAIR
events, this year, the European
Composers Forum presents the 3rd edition of ARTMUSFAIR, 'Meet the
Challenges of
21st Century Music', which ill take place in Warsaw, Poland on 22-25
September
2010. ARTMUSFAIR 2010 welcomes participants from throughout the
contemporary classical
& art music scene and attracts hundreds of composers, music
publishers,
record labels, musicians, promoters, managers and agents from across
the whole
of Europe, allowing them to develop their music projects together with
other European
partners!Visit www.artmusfair.eu
to
register., infoline: +43 1 9661545 / info@artmusfair.eu
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The
Fondazione
Adkins Chiti:
Donne in Musica announces the
creation of an online
digital library for guitar compositions and welcomes published and
unpublished
scores for solo guitar and/or with one other instrument. To be part of
this
project composers must send a score for each work submitted (maximum 6
pages), an updated email address or website url , a
5 line
curriculum in Times New Roman 12, including date and place of birth in
any
language PLUS English, and a photograph in JPG format to
library.donneinmusica@gmail.com.
Incomplete submissions will not be processed (Deadline; June 30, 2010)
The
foundation's “Music for the Mind” project is
preparing a biographical dictionary of 150 Serbian women composers
entitiled
“Women and Music in Serbia”.
Research
undertaken by Jelena
Novak,
Ivana Neimarec and Voyna Nesic along with the European Parliament 2009
resolution for Equality of Treatment and Access for Women in the
Performing
Arts, calling for an increase in the presence of female creators and
their
works in programming, collections, publishing and consultation,
highlight the
need for this book. Any Serbian women composers wanting to be included
should
write to forum@donneinmusica.org
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Continental
Arts Centre
The 30th European Christian Artists Summer Seminar will be held
in the village of Doorn in the Netherlands on July 31 – Aug
4.
Fifty
professional teachers and artists will be participating, 25 parallel
workshops
will take place every hour, and masterclasses in contemporary music,
classical
music, dance, theatre, visual arts etc., will be held. The seminar is
supported
by the EU and trade unions. Sign up at www.christianartists.org
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On
the
occasion of the Liszt
anniversary year in
2011, the KLASSZ Music Office of
Hungarofest Nonprofit Ltd –
official
coordinator of the Liszt Year 2011
in Hungary
– and the Hungarian Music
Council announce the
World Liszt Day project, calling for international cooperation on the
day of
the 200th anniversary of Franz Liszt’s birth.The aim of the
project is to
initiate the performance of Franz Liszt’s oratorio Christus
October 22, 2011
in as many
concert halls around the world as
possible. The
global performance of this monumental work would mark the 200th
birthday of the
great composer and be the highlight of the worldwide events of the
Liszt Year.
All music ensembles, institutions, concert organisers who would like to
join
this initiative, should inform the KLASSZ Music Office at the following
address
by October 1, 2010:KLASSZ
Music Office, Hungarofest
Nonprofit Ltd,
H-1075 Budapest,Kazinczy u.24-26.Tel:
+36 1 413 7565,
Fax:
+36 1 413 7574, e-mail: zsuzsa.kun@klassz.org
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