Dear friends and colleagues,
we hope you had a good start of the new academic year, which promises some normality again after a year and a half of the pandemic. Now it will all be about how to make what we have learned in these challenging months part of a new normal in a meaningful way.
Starting a new academic year also means that the AEC Annual Congress and General Assembly 2021 is coming closer. Based on positive experiences made at the recent Annual Meeting for International Relations Coordinators 2021 in combining the tried and tested (in-person event) with the new (making the event accessible online), we will continue this formula with the Congress. The key data of the programme and the technical requirements for the implementation of the first hybrid AEC Congress are settled, and we would be delighted to welcome as many of you as possible in person in Antwerp.
The AEC office wishes you all the best and every success in dealing with the upcoming tasks.
Stefan Gies
AEC CEO
Part of the AEC advocacy activities is making new and maintaining existing partnerships with other organisations.
Join AEC's partner Opera Europa in the social media action for the #WorldOperaDay!
This year's edition was the first IRCs Meeting organised in a hybrid form, with both online and in-person activities spread between 3 and 24 September.
Conservatoire teachers observed how an ‘entrepreneurial bootcamp’ is implemented by a conservatoire as an instrument of education.
A group of 50 individuals from AEC member institutions started discussing the topic of power relations in HME. The point of their first meeting was to understand the power and its impact. Learn more about the topic!
Join the AEC-SMS Early Childhood Music Education Working Group in this webinar hosted by the European Music Schools Union!
How do you develop your ability to be curious? How do you learn from other disciplines and why should you? Join the public presentation of the Looking Outward project on Tuesday 26 October!
MusiQuE is searching for a new Board member (deadline to apply: 6 October 2021) and organising its Peer-reviewer Training workshop on 25 October, 3 and 4 November 2021.
Leadership news from AEC member institutions
» On 1 October, Tilmann Claus will take over from Heinz Geuen the position as rector of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Cologne.
This section provides updates regarding the senior management of AEC member institutions. You are welcome to share such information with us so that we can disseminate it amongst our readers.
AEC Events
The registrations for the AEC Annual Congress and General Assembly, taking place in a hybrid form and hosted by the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp, Belgium on 4-6 November, are open!
3-6 November 2021 | Royal Conservatoire Antwerp
Upcoming events
8 -10 October 2021 | Musikhochschule in Trossingen and online
Early Music Platform - Historically Informed Performance (HIP): Is it enough to just be “informed”?
News from the AEC - SMS project
» New article by the Music in Society Working Group!
Musicians as “Makers in Society”: A Conceptual Foundation for Contemporary Professional Higher Music Education by Helena Gaunt, Celia Duffy, Ana Coric, Isabel R. González Delgado, Linda Messas, Oleksandr Pryimenko and Henrik Sveidahl.
