Season's Greetings from AEC
Dear colleagues and friends,
To meet so many of you again at this year's AEC Congress was a great pleasure. Warm thanks to the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp for its generosity and dedication as host.
The final outcomes of the AEC-SMS project, which were presented at the Congress, can be traced in this Newsletter. I would like to encourage you all to take ownership of these outcomes, to use them in your own context and to share them with your colleagues, within and outside your institution.
In the coming year we will maintain our focus on the societal responsibilities and relevance of higher music education. At next year´s Congress in Lyon, we will also look into artistic processes and results, and the EPARM conference in London in April will concentrate on the Artistry of Artistic Research.
This strange year marked by new waves of Covid is coming to an end. We have high hopes for a new and brighter year ahead of us. My colleagues in the AEC Council and the AEC Office Team wish you all a peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Eirik Birkeland
AEC President
In the uncertain times in which we live, one of the reliable constants that higher music education institutions situated in the European Union (EU) can count on, is the accessibility of EU funding programs.
Join the AEC Pop and Jazz Platform 2022 and send proposals for the Pre-Conference sessions and the Open Floor presentations.
The 4-year project led by AEC came to an end: find and share the resources developed for helping you and your institution strengthen music in society.
Send your proposal for the European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM) 2022.
Deadline: 5 January 2022.
By creating a (thematic) network of higher education institutions and cooperating through shared education, institutions can offer a variety of experiences and specific, supplemental programmes in other academies of the network.
The MusiQuE Board composition has been recently renewed. A new member has been appointed by AEC for a mandate period of three years, while Gordon Munro has been replaced as Chair of the Board by Jacques Moreau.
The Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music (MCICM) will organise an online symposium titled ‘Borderlands: Classical Music and Society’ on 20-23 April 2022.
The European Learning & Teaching Forum will take place at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain, on 17-18 February 2022.
Leadership news from AEC member institutions
» Professor Sandro Torlontano is the new Dean of the Conservatorio Giuseppe Tartini, Trieste.
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 Pop and Jazz Platform meeting, taking place in a hybrid form and hosted by the Akademia Muzyczna im. Grazyny i Kiejstuta Bacewiczow in Łódź, Poland on 10-13 February 2022, are now open!
10-13 February 2022 | Łódź, Poland
AEC Pop and Jazz Platform - Akademia Muzyczna im. Grazyny i Kiejstuta Bacewiczow
Other upcoming events:
7-9 April 2022 | London, UK
European Platform for Artistic Research in Music - Royal Academy of Music
News from the AEC - SMS project
» The project outcomes are here for you!
Browse and share with your colleagues the AEC - Strengthening Music in Society brochure to learn more about the resources developed during the Creative Europe project that AEC lead from 2017 to 2021.
