Symposium 2016 – Re-Thinking the Dialogue

The connection between schools and cultural institutions cannot be taken for granted. More often than not, it depends on the dedication of individuals, and quite promising ideas time and again fail due to varying structures. We are just one year away from the Elbphilharmonie opening its doors to a music hall ready to set new standards in the field of music education. The organizers of »The Art of Music Education« would like to take this opportunity for a caesura and ask what has come of two decades of music education in and with schools? What can be improved, what must be improved? Which utopian dreams can transcend and remove confines and borders, which daring ideas show the way? During three congress days, teachers, educators, artists and music educators will engage in intensive exchanges which are meant to lead to manifold perspective changes and finally to new courses of action in practice. Being true to the title »Re-Thinking the Dialogue«, we are providing for rather unconventional forms of interaction that will enable all participants to contribute to this re-launch.

3.00 p.m. | Opening

• Anja Paehlke (Member of the Board, Körber-Stiftung), Barbara Kisseler (Senator of Culture of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg), Christoph Lieben-Seutter (General & Artistic Director Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle)

3.30 p.m. | Keynotes and concert

Yaron Herman (Jazz-Pianst, ISR), Klaus Zierer (Educationalist)

• 5.00 p.m. | Panel discussion
• With perspectives by Sarah Hennessy (University of Exeter, UK), Yaron Herman, Jorge Prendas (Casa da Música Porto, PRT), Gerhard Sammer (President of the EAS)

6.30 p.m. | Intermission and buffet

8.00 p.m. | Discussion and concert (open to the public)

• Experience Music! Trio Catch & Klangspuren SCHWAZ Lautstärker (Cathy Milliken, Angelika Schopper and pupil)

9.30 p.m. | Get together THURSDAY, February 4, 2

9.00 a.m. | Morning hours with the DigiEnsemble

9.30 a.m. | Introducing Good Practice Examples of school and concert hall collaborations

• Presentations: Ensemble ACJW/Carnegie Hall Academy (USA), Grundschule der Künste, Jazz Lines Birmingham (UK), NDR Dvorak-Experiment, Theater Hagen/Oberlinschule

1.00 p.m. | Lunch

2.00 p.m. | “Congress thinks”: Which needs do pupils, teachers, schools and cultural institutions have?

3.00 p.m. | Workshops (registration B1 and B2 beforehand online)

• A: Paul Collard (all participants)
• B1: Constanze Wimmer & Helmut Schmiedinger Listening Lab // B2: Ceren Oran Soundpainting

6.30 p.m. | Exchange with representatives of the Good Practice examples

8.00 p.m. | Evening Programme at Resonanzraum, Feldstr. 66

8.30 p.m. | Experience Music! With the Ensemble Resonanz

9.30 a.m. | Questioning utopia, structures and systems. How could practical and sustainable collaborations look like?

• “Congress thinks”: Possible ideal framework conditions
• Presentations, among others by KulturTagJahr/Altana Stiftung (Friederike Schönhuth), KulturAgenten (Sybille Linke), Operndorf Burkina Faso (Amelie Deuflhard)
• Followed by a panel discussion

1.00 p.m. | Lunch and closing of symposium