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Rationale
The music profession is rapidly changing and suggests more flexible career patterns and a need for transferable skills and lifelong learning strategies. Increasingly, musicians are being asked to collaborate with practitioners in other arts and societal cross-sector settings (business, health care, educational projects, etc.). This reality holds challenges and implications for professional music training in higher education, already faced with important reforms initiated by the Bologna Declaration.
The first Joint European Master in the field of music, Music Masters in New Audiences and Innovative Practice, combines the need to develop new approaches to music training with possibilities for cooperation at the European level offered by the Bologna Process. This programme will help students develop and lead creative projects in diverse artistic, community and cross-sectoral settings, thereby creating new audiences and developing their leadership skills in varied artistic and social contexts. A new and innovative curriculum will be developed with five higher music education institutions in Europe and seven external professional and educational organisations in four European countries. The programme will provide future professional musicians with the skills and knowledge to become artistically flexible practitioners able to adjust to new contexts within a wide range of situations of societal relevance.
The master can be considered innovative in different ways. As it is the first joint master in music in Europe, it will fulfill an important pilot role in the higher music education sector in Europe, a sector for which the concept of Joint European Masters is highly interesting due to the existing international character of music training and the music profession.