Sinds de invoering in 1998 van de Tweede Fase in het Middelbaar Onderwijs is er een nieuw elan geslopen in discussies die gaan over wat interdisciplinariteit in de kunsten precies betekent en hoe deze van betekenis kan zijn voor het kunstonderwijs. Tot het moment van invoering werd het kunstonderwijs …

Moeten kinderen muziekles volgen? En, zo ja, moeten ze leren zingen of een muziekinstrument bespelen? Noten lezen of improviseren? En gaat het om cultuuroverdracht of creativiteit? Klassiek of pop? Formeel of informeel leren? Om deze en andere nijpende vragen te beantwoorden, gaan wij terug naar de oermens, …

Gastcollege (Skype) voor masterstudenten van de School of Arts and Social Sciences, Cape Breton University, CA

As a consequence of restructuring instrumental music education in the Netherlands, Art Centres increasingly cease to facilitate instrumental music lessons. As a consequence, instrumental teachers are no longer employed in these Centres and have started working as independent entrepreneurs now. The question …

“If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” Evert Bisschop Boele challenges this idea and thinks about new audiences for music in changing times. Evert is Professor (‘lector’) of New Audiences at the Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen in …

Blog: Having a career with overlapping activities in today’s multi-faceted professional music practice requires musicians to exercise many roles at the same time, roles which extend beyond their artistic skills. Musicians need to be innovative, entrepreneurial and communicative, they need to be able …

Article (Dutch) in Kunstzone, 14/4 (2015), pp. 52-53, on idiocultural music education.

Author version of opiniating article (Dutch) in national newspaper Trouw, appeared under the title 'Zingen, dat is beter dan muziekonderwijs'. Plea for singing in primary schools.

10 Years Lifelong Learning in Music. Today we will look back on the work in the LLM group during the past 10 years, and we will look to the future as well. Lifelong Learning for musicians is a never-ending theme, as there is always much change to respond to. And this is something which may become very …