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Jyväskylä Sinfonia (FI)
The North Netherlands Orchestra is a symphony orchestra consisting of 95 members and a small staff. It performs mainly in the three Northern provinces of The Netherlands. The North Netherlands Orchestra distinguishes itself by attracting new audiences through programmes that seek to connect with the regional culture, also searching for new audiences by the creation of cross over programmes with rap, pop and jazz. The North Netherlands Orchestra is aiming at creating opportunities for young composers by performing their works. It also involves famous contemporary composers in its yearly festivals that are created within the community of Groningen, looking for ‘crossing borders’. Composers like Wolfgang Rihm, Terry Reilly and Harrison Birtwhistle have been at the centre of past festivals, Sofia Gubaidulina and Heiner Goebbels being guests of the next festival. The orchestra is engaged in educational programmes for teenagers. back
The Music Centre of the Dutch Broadcast describes itself as “a lively, ambitious and colourful family of musical talent, inspired and guided by the top conductors Jaap van Zweden, Vince Mendoza and Simon Halsey”. The MCO comprises a symphony orchestra, a chamber orchestra, a jazz orchestra, a (professional) choir and an exceptional library. The total amount of musicians is 328. The MCO is an institution that creates productions in cooperation with both broadcast and television. A special characteristic of the MCO is the cooperation within one organisation of many top musicians in various orchestras and a choir, leading to a broad musical spectre of high quality. Next to that many concerts are being realized throughout The Netherlands. The Music Centre of the Dutch Broadcast creates grand scale productions, with the aim of having a specific function in The Netherlands, amongst other things with regard to broad educational goals as well as creating new audiences. Projects are initiated by the MCO and given shape in secondary schools. The MCO aims at training musicians to realize creative / educational projects. It aims at making adventurous programmes, thus being complementary to other music programmes in the country. back
The Leiden University Graduate School of Creative and Performing Arts is part of the Faculty of Creative and Performing Arts of the Leiden University and the Hogeschool van Beeldende Kunsten, Muziek en Dans (Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Design, Music and Dance), The Hague. Aims and objectives of this faculty are to liase between the Creative and Performing Arts and the traditional academic sciences. In practice students of Leiden University have been invited to study fine arts, design and music at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Design, Music and Dance and the other way round. Programmes are offered in the format of optional extras, side subjects and minors to the major bachelor programmes. In total the Faculty serves now 400 students and some 25 who study both in the University and in the Academy. In the graduate school post bachelor education takes places in order to give out a masters diploma and lead into a PhD trajectory. back
The AEC is a European organisation with the aim to promote European cooperation in the professional music training in sector. This aim is being achieved through the realisation of conferences, meetings and workshops for the membership of the AEC, which currently consists of more than 225 member institutions. The AEC is also initiating and implementing various European projects that study various issues in relation to professional music training at the European level. Examples of current projects are the ERASMUS Thematic Network for Music ‘Polifonia’, the ERASMUS MUNDUS project ‘Mundus Musicalis’, the ERASMUS project ‘Accreditation in European Professional Music training’ and ‘Do-Re-Mi-Fa-SOCRATES’. Through these activities, the AEC has developed a substantial body of expertise in relation to European cooperation in the field of music training.
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Jyväskylä Sinfonia
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Jyväskylä Sinfonia
Jyväskylä Sinfonia, founded 1955, is a versatile chamber orchestra of 42 professional musicians. The artistic director and chief conductor is Patrick Gallois. In addition to its regular symphony concerts, the Jyväskylä Sinfonia has toured widely throughout Finland, Japan, France, Spain and Poland. For some years now, the Jyväskylä Sinfonia has been appearing at various summer festivals in Europe. Jyväskylä Sinfonia collaborates closely with the Jyväskylä Opera (Keski-Suomen Alueooppera). The Jyväskylä Sinfonia pays special attention to the performances and promotion of the work of young Finnish composers as well as promotion of compositions based on Finnish folk music. The orchestra has developed educational programmes for youth and with the aim of creating new audiences. back
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Globetown Action Zone works in partnership with four local primary schools and a large local secondary school. Its aim is described as follows: “to further raise the enjoyment and attainment of all the pupils within the schools. We believe that every pupil in our community of schools has an entitlement to excellence, in which they can achieve their individual goals. These personal achievements will be equally respected and valued as we work with commitment in an environment of inclusion”. The aims are: 1. providing enrichment to the curriculum, 2. to raise standards through the development of education and social inclusion and 3. strengthening partnerships between schools, families and the wider community. The department of Professional Development of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London works yearly with the Globetown Action Zone by giving shape to creative music projects in the five schools mentioned above. back
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Municipality of Isafjördur (Tónlistarskóli Isafjördur)
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Municipality of Isafjördur (Tónlistarskóli Isafjördur)
The municipality of Isafördur is a small community hosting a unique connecting network encompassing the Institute of University Education, part of the Westfjords University Centre, a Music School (which was the first to be founded in Iceland in 1911) and a newly founded art school named after the architect Rögnfaldur Olafsson. The Institute of University Education has built a strong adult education programme as well as education through distant learning with other universities in Iceland. The town of Isafjördur has traditionally a long history of musical activities. The above mentioned network develops a lot of music - educational and cross cultural activities together with the Arts Academy in Reykjavik. Students are engaged in projects in the local music school, in the concert hall, the public school and in the fishing industry factories. back
Concertgebouw (Amsterdam)
The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is one of the most famous concert halls in the world and is known for its wonderful acoustics. The building, dating from 1888, is the centre for classical music in The Netherlands. Approximately 900 concerts take place every year, which are attended by nearly 810.000 visitors in all.
The department of Education of The Concertgebouw organises projects for pupils from primary and secondary schools. Listening is of course an important part in this educational programme, and listening activities become much more appealing when students are actively involved in projects. They play and sing themselves, they invent musical programmes and then also perform them. This approach has allowed over 30.000 pupils to become familiar with classical music, world music and jazz.
In addition to projects such as these the department of education develops courses, activities involving singing and playing for adults as well as workshops for very young children or the whole family. back