Dear colleagues,
I am delighted to welcome you to the latest edition of the AEC Newsletter. The AEC Council met in the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, this month. With many new Council members to welcome, it was an opportunity to share our stories and build connections. We discussed many things, including the update of our Strategy, progress on the ARTEMIS Project, and the thriving Erasmus+ projects of our membership which you can read about in this Newsletter. We looked at continuing challenges for our members, such as the Ukraine War, the ongoing impact of the energy crisis and global economic challenges.
AEC Council and Office Team members in The Hague
The AEC Council also met with the Board of ELIA in Amsterdam and had a productive conversation about our goals, covering points for shared action in the future. We held an online ceremony to mark the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the South East Asian Directors of Music (SEADOM) represented by their President Shahanum Shah and Executive Director Joseph Bowman.
Meeting of AEC and ELIA Boards in Amsterdam
I am grateful to the Council for their dedication and preparation for these meetings. We will work with Stefan, Linda and our excellent office team to ensure that AEC remains a relevant and valuable nexus of ideas, advocacy and networking for our membership.
Best wishes,
Deborah Kelleher, AEC President
This month we look at AEC’s history from a member perspective and namely the one of Philippe Dinkel, from Switzerland, former Director of the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève.
Report on the annual policy conversation Cultural Deal for Europe, and final chapter of the series of articles entitled 'Towards an AEC Advocacy Strategy.'
The European Performing Arts Students’ Association is inviting all interested students to join their inaugural conference in April! Find out more also about their upcoming elections. Please forward the news to your students!
The kick-off meeting of the ECSA-AEC Mentorship Programme 2022-2023 took place on 21st March in Brussels, in the frame of ECSA’s Creators Conference 2023, with all mentors and mentees who met in person for the first time.
From February 13 to 17, over 50 traditional music students and teachers from five European countries gathered in Rauland, Norway for the 3rd intensive week of the TUNE (Traditional Music Undergraduate Network in Europe) project.
Help us collect data about technological & remote systems infrastructure, as well as experiences related to virtual/remote/cyber projects in music, in Higher Music Education Institutions in Europe.
MusiQuE is currently coordinating and preparing several quality enhancement and accreditation procedures in The Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Estonia, Singapore, Thailand and Spain and took part in various higher education quality assurance events around the world.
Registrations are open for the RAPP Lab Multiplier event: "Reflect & React: How Artistic Research Empowers Musicians and Performing Artists at Higher Education Institutions", which will take place on 12 – 13 May in Cologne.
AEC Events
12 – 13 May 2023 - Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (Cologne, Germany)
AEC - Empowering Artists as Makers in Society
#insideARTEMIS | Work Package 8: This month we have an in-depth look at the work of the DIGE Working Group of AEC’s ARTEMIS Project.
