46th AEC ANNUAL CONGRESS and GENERAL ASSEMBLY
7-9 November 2019
Conservatorio di Musica“G. Verdi„ Torino, Italy
“Re-imagining Success?”
AEC - Strengthening Music in Society
Please note that this year there will be no simultaneous translations at the Congress. All sessions will be delivered in English language, but all Congress documents and information will be translated in written form in French, German and Italian
Pre-Congress Programme
Wednesday 6 November
15:30 Registration for the MusiQuE Workshop
16:00 – 21:00 Pre-Congress Workshop - MusiQuE
FOR REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS ONLY
Workshop and training for Peer-Reviewers organized by MusiQuE - Music Quality Enhancement (the Foundation for Quality Enhancement and Accreditation in Higher Music Education)
Working Dinner at the Restaurant "Alla Lettera"
Thursday 7 November
9:30 – 12:30 Continuation of the Pre-Congress Workshop - MusiQuE
FOR REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS ONLY
Workshop and training for Peer-Reviewers organized by MusiQuE - Music Quality Enhancement (the Foundation for Quality Enhancement and Accreditation in Higher Music Education)Coffee Break at 11:00
9:30 - 13:00 Pre-Congress Workshop - Student Engagement
"Strengthening the Society in Your Institution" , with
Caroline Sundberg, European Students’ Union former Vice-President, and
Clara Barbera, SMS working group on Diversity, Identity and Inclusiveness, and
Ankna Arickiam, Chair of the AEC student working group
FOR REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS ONLY
13:00 - 14:00 Networking lunch for Pre-Congress Seminars Participants (Restaurant "Alla Lettera")
13:00 - 15:00 AEC Council Meeting [for AEC Council members only – lunch served in the meeting room for AEC Council members]
Congress Programme
Thursday 7 November
13:45 Registration starts – Coffee and Refreshments available
14:15 - 15:00 Optional Guided Tour
15:15 – 16:15 Welcome to Newcomers with members of AEC Council and AEC Office Team and Welcome to Students – for students delegates with the AEC Students working group
16:30 – 17:15 Opening Event
Music Performance
Words of welcome by:
Marco Zuccarini, Director of the Conservatorio di Torino
Franscesca Leon, Assessore alla Cultura Città di Torino
Greetings from Dan Dressen, President of the National Association of Schools of Music US (NASM)
Greetings from Jenny Ang, Executive Committee Member of the Southeast Asian Directors of Music Association (SEADOM)
Ankna Arockiam, Chair of the AEC Students working group
Eirik Birkeland, President of the AEC
17:15 – 17:45 Plenary Session I - Keynote Speaker
"On Digitisation, Entrepreneurship and Music" by
Alfons Karabuda, Composer and President of IMC (International Music Council) and ECSA (European Composer and Songwriter Alliance)
17:50 – 19:00 Opening Brainstorming on topics proposed by participants
Introduction by Stefan Gies, AEC Chief Executive
Introducing the AEC Stakeholder Assembly on Power Relations: from systemic inequity to systemic change, presentation by David-Emil Wickström, chair of the SMS Diversity working group and Deborah Kelleher, AEC Vice-President
19:15 – 20:00 Concert
20:00 Welcome Dinner at Museo del Risorgimento
Friday 8 November
9:00 Networking with coffee available and continuation of registrations
9:15 - 10:15 Plenary Session II
Music Introduction
"Strengthening Music in Society: Priorities and Action"
Panel Discussion moderated by Helena Gaunt, Principal at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, Chair of SMS Working Group 1 on Music in Society
Ilona Schmiel, Executive and Artistic Director at Tonhalle Zürich, Switzerland
Luca Ripanti, RAI Symphony Orchestra Turin, Italy
Camilla Overgaard, AEC Student Working Group representative and student at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus/Aalborg, Denmark
Julian Lloyd Webber, Principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, United Kingdom
Alfons Karabuda, Composer and President of IMC (International Music Council) and ECSA (European Composer and Songwriter Alliance)
10:25 - 11:25 Parallel Sessions I
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Power relations: Issues of equity and positionality, presented by Deborah Kelleher, AEC Vice-President and students, facilitated by David Emil Wickström, chair of the SMS working group 2 on Identity, Diversity and Inclusiveness
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Digitising Learning and Performing Through Low Latency Techology: the SWING Project and the work of the SMS Learning&Teaching and Digitisation working groups, presentations by Claudio Allocchio, GARR Network, Italy, Stefan Gies, AEC Chief Executive and Anna Maria Bordin, Conservatorio di Musica „“N. Paganini“ Genova, Italy, members of the SMS Working Group 5 on Learning and Teaching and André Stärk, Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Germany, member of the SMS Working Group 6 on Digitisation
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East meets West, West meets East: Asian and European Perspectives on Building Meaningful International Collaboration, with Adrian Walter, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Xavier Bouvier, Haute École de Musique de Genève, Marianne Jakobsen, Royal Danish Academy of Music, Narong Prangcharnoen, School of Music, Mahidol University, moderated by Gretchen Amussen, former AEC Council Member
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20 years from the Bologna Declaration – a successful process? Preparing the Ministerial Conference 2020 in Rome. Round Table with Ann Katherine Isaacs and Cristina Ghitulica,Bologna Follow Up Group, Eirik Birkeland, AEC President, Marco Zuccarini, Conservatorio G. Verdi, Turin, Italy, moderated by Lucia Di Cecca, AEC Council Member
11:25 - 12:05 Networking with Refreshments
12:10 - 13:10 Parallel Sessions II
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Reaching out to Digital Natives Generations: presentations by the Creative Europe Projects „Opera Incanto“ and „Opera Out of Opera“, the “Creating New Opera„ Programme and the SMS Early Childhood working group with Michelangelo Galeati, Conservatorio Santa Ceclia, Rome, Italy, Raffaele Longo, Conservatorio di Musica „S. Giacomantonio“ di Cosenza, Italy, Anna Maria Koziomtzis, Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden, Wilhelm Carlsson, University College of Opera, Stockholm, Till Skoruppa, SMS Early Childhood working group moderated by Luc Nijs, chair of the SMS Digitisation working group
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Re-imagining Entrepreneurship: presentations by DEMUSIS and RENEW Projects, the Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Innovation Programme at Reina Sofia and the SMS Entrepreneurship Working Group, with Ivana Perković, University of the Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, Esther Viñuela, Escuela Superior de Mùsica Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, Renee Jonker, Royal Conservatoire The Hague, The Netherlands and Payam Gul Susanni, Yasar University of Music, Izmir, Turkey, member of the SMS Entrepreneurship working group
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Digital Tools to Enhance HMEI's collaborations and offer: examples from Amsterdam Conservatoire, Opera Vision and the University in Bergen with Edoardo Righini, Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Luke O'Shaughnessy, Opera Europa and Dagfinn Bach, University of Bergen, moderated by Matti Ruippo, member of SMS Digitisation working group
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Successfully International in a Globalised World: discussion based on the Reflection Paper of the SMS Internationalization and Transnational Mobility working group with Christofer Fredriksson, University College of Opera, Uniarts Stockholm, chair of the SMS Internationalisation and Transnational Mobility working group moderated by Celia Duffy, RCS Glasgow, UK
13:10 - 14:40 Networking Lunch (Collegio San Giuseppe)
14:45 - 15:45 Parallel Sessions III
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Discourses on Academisation: How classical music performance teachers are thinking and talking about their professional duty with Eva Georgii-Hemming, Elin Angelo, Christian Rolle, members of the DAPHME research project DAPHME, moderated by Jon Helge Sætre, NMH Oslo, chair of the SMS Learning&Teaching WG
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E-Mobility: Successful Mobility and Recognition through Digital Credentials: the Groningen Declaration Network and the DiploME blockchain solution by Jelger de Boer, DUO and Luca Lantero, CIMEA (Italian Agency for Recognition), moderated by Lucia Di Cecca, AEC Council Member
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Successful Artistic Research: best practices from EPARM presentations and performances by Saale Fischer , Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Tallinn, Estonia and Marie-Charline Foccroulle, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, Ireland, moderated by Stephen Broad, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, chair of the EPARM
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Health and Well-being as pre-condition for success: the Heathy Conservatoire presentations by Aaron Williamon, Royal College of Music, London, UK and and Cristina Frosini, Conservatorio di Musica “G. Verdi“ di Milano, Italy, moderated by Henrik Sveidahl, Rythmic Conservatory Copenhagen, Denkmark
15:50 - 16:50 Parallel Sessions IV
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Conservatoires' Leadership Perspectives in the Digital Era: the MOOCs and developments from the INTERMUSIC Project with Roberto De Thierry, Conservatorio di Musica “G. Verdi“ Milan, Italy, Mantautas Krukauskas, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre Vilnius, Marianne Jakobsen, Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen, Peter Dejans, Orpheus Institute Gent, Belgium, Uffe Savery, Royal Academy of Music, Copenhagen, Denmark, Cristina Frosini, Conservatorio “G.Verdi„di Milano, Italy, Zbignevas Ibelgauptas, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius , moderated by Sandrine Desmurs, CEFEDEM Lyon, France, member of SMS Digitisation working group
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Consideration of Conditions Affecting Music Study and its Future: a session in cooperation with NASM, with Karen P. Moynahan, NASM Executive Director, and Dan Dressen, NASM President, Provost and Dean, St. Olaf College, USA, Stefan Gies, AEC Chief Executive, moderated by Eirik Birkeland, AEC President
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The music student as successful future agent of cultural management: a session in cooperation with ENCATC, the European Network of Cultural management and policy with Tanja Johansson, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki and ENCATC Board Member and Payam Gul Susanni, Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey
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Re-imagining the MusiQuE Standards for success: your input needed! moderated by MusiQuE - Music Quality Enhancement, with Martin Prchal, MusiQuE President and Linda Messas, MusiQuE Director
16:50 - 17:25 Networking with Refreshments
17:30 - 18:40 Regional Meetings with Council Members
18:45 - 19:15 Wrap up of the day with Eline Accoe, Student Working Group and Henrik Sveidahl, SMS WG1 on Music in Society, moderated by Stefan Gies
with music introduction
Free Evening
Saturday 9 November
9:00 Optional Guided Tour of the Conservatoire and continuation of the registrations
10:00 – 11:00 Discussion groups on the following 3 topics – groups organized by mixing AEC regional groups
A, B, C - Autonomy: Teachers' Recruitment
D, E, F - Joint Programmes and Shared Modules
G, H, I- Policies and Measures to prevent and follow up misuse of power
11:00 – 11:30 Networking with Refreshments
11:30 – 13:00 Information Forum
Plenary presentations by AEC Member institutions and partners moderated by Deborah Kelleher, AEC Vice-President, followed by Q&A with the speakers in the form of “market place”
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 Registration for the AEC General Assembly
14:30 – 16:30 AEC General Assembly 2019
15:00 – 16:30 Students Wrap up Meeting - Unions Building
16:30 – 17:00 Networking with Refreshment
17:00– 17:30 Closing Session
19:00 – 20:00 Closing Concert
20:00 Closing Dinner
Information fee payment AEC Annual Congress 2019
Early Bird Deadline: 7 October 2019
Participation fees can be paid in the following ways:
- Manual Payment by Bank Transfer before the event (preferable)
- Ideal, Credit Card, Paypal and Bancontact Systems Online
- Manual Payment (cash on the spot in Turin)
- Manual Payment (by Credit Card in Turin)
An invoice is sent directly to the participant email address by the system after the completion of the online registration procedure.
For more information and other requests please mail events@aec-music.eu
Category |
If the registration AND payment is made before October 7th |
If the registration AND payment is made after October 7th |
Representative of AEC member institution |
€300 (+ €100 if attending the MusiQuE pre-Congress workshop or + €30 if attending the workshop on student representation) |
€400 (+ €100 if attending a MusiQuE pre-Congress workshop or + €30 if attending the workshop on student representation) |
Representative of non-member institutions |
€500 |
€600 |
Student from an AEC member institution |
One student: FREE
Other students: €150 |
€210
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The participation fee includes:
Conference documents
Participation to all plenary and parallel session
Participation to the networking moments
Possibility to display information brochures posters and materials about AEC members institutions
Coffee Breaks
Two organized Dinners (Thursday 7 and Saturday 9)
Two organized Lunches (Friday 8 and Saturday 9)
Concerts organized by the hosting institution
Assistance by the AEC Office Staff
The participation fee will not be reimbursed for cancellations notified after October 7th.
Bank details for payments
BNP Paribas Fortis
Account Holder AEC-Music
IBAN: BE47 0016 8894 2980
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When making the transfer, please clearly quote:
· the code of the event (Congress 2019)
· the last name of the participant
· the name of your institution (if fitting)
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