Welcome to YoungEM-Þing Early Music in Children s Education 14-15 May 2018 Nordic House Tórshavn Faroe Islands A conference hosted by NORDEM
Monday 14 May 9:30 REGISTRATION & COFFEE 10:00 WELCOME Introduction to the conference theme followed by a short presentation by each delegate. 11:00 KEYNOTE 1 - Cherry Forbes Early Music in the Classroom - the Why, the Where and the What? 12:00 DISCUSSION 12:30 LUNCH 14:00 WORKSHOP Putting it into Practice. Following on from the morning session Cherry Forbes and Cecelia Bruggemeyer will lead a workshop with local children and delegates exploring baroque repertoire. 15:15 NORDIC EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES and the development of young musicians Peter Spissky Teaching strategies and projects for young musicians. Niklas Mellberg The Concert Grosso concept of the FiBO Collegium. Kirstine Skov Hansen Concerto Copenhagen s visions and projects for children and young people within early music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. 16:30 COFFEE BREAK 17:00 FAROESE DANCE - KVÆÞI A unique Nordic early music tradition Gunnar Restorff The opportunities of teaching the Faroese dance to young children, including a practical demonstration with members of Dansifelagið í Havn and conference delegates. Tuesday 15 May 10:00 FAROESE DANCE - KVÆÞI Jónleif Johannesen The difficulties of teaching the Faroese Dance to very young children, followed by discussion. 11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:15 KEYNOTE 2 - Jorge Prendas Orelhudo! Big ear! 11:45 WORKSHOP Jorge Prendas The sense of rhythm and melody in Early Music. 12:45 LUNCH & FREE TIME 15:30 MAPPING THE FUTURE 16:30 COFFEE BREAK 17:00 YoungEM-þing PLENARY SESSION The longer term perspective - preparation and signing of a Joint Statement of intent about Early Music education in the Nordic-Baltic region. 18:15 KRISTIAN BLAK The well-known Faroese/Danish composer and musical entrepreneur presents his work. 19:00 DINNER 18:15 WORKSHOP Baroque bowing and the communication of the passions. Peter Spissky with two pupils from Musikskolan Lilla Akademien, Stockholm. 19:00 DINNER Coffee, lunch and dinner will be served in Café SMAKKA at the Nordic House
Keynotes KEYNOTE 1 Early Music in the classroom the Why, the Where and the What? With Education Director and oboist Cherry Forbes and double bassist Cecelia Bruggemeyer from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) we will explore how baroque music can be used in the curriculum across Early Years, Primary, Secondary, and Special Needs settings as well as in the community. We will examine how the OAE s education programme has expanded massively over the last twenty years and look at the challenges that we have faced and the questions we have had to ask ourselves in creating a programme that is accessible to all, appropriate for all and one that leaves a living legacy for all whowork with us. WORKSHOP Putting it into Practice. Cherry Forbes and Cecelia Bruggemeyer will lead a workshop with local children and delegates in exploring baroque repertoire. Be prepared to get stuck in and join the session and if you play an instrument please bring it with you! KEYNOTE 2 Orelhudo! Big Ear! Orelhudo! is a daily listening programme created by Jorge Prendas and designed for primary schools based on a free access internet site, available since 2015. Though Orelhudo was designed for primary schools, it is now also used by kindergartens, and at home by families who arrange their own daily listening activity with their children. The programme encourages wide discussion by teachers and pupils. It also enables not only the transmission of musical knowledge but also the possibility of relating music to other school subjects within the regular curriculum. Among its main goals are: listening to a wide variety of music, having regular daily contact with a diversity of musical languages, and starting each class with an activity that gathers everyone together and stimulates concentration and participation. WORKSHOP An hour of practice developing individual musical skills and enthusiasm. Designed for musicians and non-musicians alike, this workshop will be based on rhythm and melody, with excerpts taken from the early music repertoire. Cherry Forbes Jorge Prendas Peter Spissky Biographies Cherry Forbes is an educationalist and oboist. She studied music at the University of York following this with postgraduate study in London at the Royal College and Guildhall School of Music. Cherry specialises in baroque and classical instruments, and performs regularly with many early instrument orchestras. Cherry has been Education Director of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for the last eighteen years and has been instrumental in the huge expansion of the Orchestra s successful education programme. She has led and devised many projects for all ages as well as nurturing her colleagues in their own personal development. Cherry is particularly interested in how links can be made between performers and audience and how classical music can be made accessible to all through innovative and creative repertoire based projects. Cecelia Bruggemeyer found herself unexpectedly taking up the double bass on discovering that there was no room for new flute pupils, and hasn t regretted it for a single moment. After a varied and exciting musical education at the Centre for Young Musicians (London) she was studying double bass at the Royal Academy of Music with her ambitions firmly directed towards a position in a big symphony orchestra, when she found herself well and truly sidetracked by the arrival of Roy Goodman as the head of the Baroque Department. She went along out of curiosity, to see if he had any suggestions for making bass parts of endless quavers more interesting, and he had plenty! Becoming totally seduced by the mellow sounds of the gut strings and the warm colours of the old wind instruments she now enjoys a busy career, touring and performing with most of Britain s period orchestras, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment with whom she first performed in 1990. She also finds herself with the opportunity to support and encourage new generations through her teaching at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and through the acclaimed education programme run by the OAE, in which Cecelia can, amongst other roles, often be seen presenting in the popular OAE TOTS concerts. Jorge Prendas was born in Porto in 1968. He began studying music at the age of 10, continuing his musical studies at the Conservatory of Porto. After graduating in Computer Science from the University of Porto, he resumed his musical studies at the University of Aveiro, studying Composition. Mr. Prendas is an active and successful composer, working with various artists and in different cultural arenas. Two of his electronic works were awarded prizes at the Musica Viva International Festival in 2002 and in 2003. In 2011 his piece Qualche Respiro was selected for the finals of the Harvey G. Phillips Awards for Excellence in Composition. Jorge Prendas is also the founder of the Portuguese a cappella group Vozes da Rádio with which he has already recorded several cd:s and dvd:s. Since 1991 Vozes da Rádio has given more than five hundred concerts not only in Portugal, but also in Spain, England and China. Peter Spissky is one of the Concertmasters of Concerto Copenhagen, and Musical Director of Camerata Øresund. As Concertmaster or Director he appears regularly with Barokkanerne in Oslo, Baroque Aros in Aarhus, Skálholt Bach Consort in Iceland, Finnish
Baroque Orchestra, the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, and the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra. In 2017 Peter Spissky became a Musical Director of Næstved Early Music Festival (NEMF). He is a teacher in baroque violin at Musikhögskolan i Malmö, Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium in Copenhagen, NOVIA Yrkeshögskolan (Jakobstad, Finland), and gives master classes all over Scandinavia. In October 2017 he successfully defended his doctoral thesis Ups and Downs Violin Bowing as Gesture at Lund University, and received a PhD degree in music and arts. Dr Gunnar Restorff is Associate Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics Programme Director at the University of the Faroe Islands. He is also a board member of Dansifelagið í Havn. Jónleif Johannesen was brought up in Dalur, Sandø, an environment heavily characterised by Faroese dance. He has been a schoolteacher and administrator, and is now a member of the Faroese parliament. He is particularly engaged in strengthening the teaching of Faroese dance in schools. YoungEM-þing* A visionary two-day conference designed to strengthen the use of early music in children s and young people s education in the Nordic-Baltic area. Early music in education YoungEM will straddle the fields of education and performance, showing that early music is one of the most appropriate musical repertoires for educational use today. Long term goals, action plan and Joint Statement YoungEM aims to present a model of early music sustainability in which educational initiatives in schools are linked with performances in the community. This will in turn contribute to reinforcing the place of early music in local cultural life. YoungEM is therefore a platform for learning, and for the sharing of ideas and best practices. YoungEM will initiate and stimulate a long term collaboration within the Nordic-Baltic area by formulating a joint action plan for the implementation of early music education in schools and by signing a Joint Statement intended as a basic document for further dialogue with education authorities in each Nordic-Baltic country. Returning home after the conference, the participants of YoungEM will be in position to invest their experiences in setting up workshops, creating new contacts, developing networks, and writing debate articles etc. Through both traditional and social media they will be able to act strongly in putting the place of early music in education back on the public agenda. The Faroese kvæði The Faroese kvæði (Faroese medieval ballad-dance) is both a symbol and source of inspiration for the event. By partnering with musicians and teachers in the Faroe Islands, participants will learn about the Faroese kvæði, a unique Children dancing the traditional Faroese kvæði Nordic expression of history and culture that still exists today. They will do so by observing local children s experience of it and reflecting on the ways in which this Faroese tradition is being developed. In understanding the value of this process, YoungEM will contribute to a deeper understanding of our common cultural heritage, and how it can be shared throughout the Nordic-Baltic area. Swedish children meeting renaissance music in their school. * A note on the word Þing From Old Norse þing ( assembly, council, business ), in turn from Proto-Germanic þingą. Cognate with Faroese ting, Norwegian ting, Swedish ting, and Danish ting, English thing, Dutch ding, German Ding, and an unattested Gothic þigg.
Become a member of NORDEM! Take the opportunity to speak with staff and members of NORDEM. The benefits of NORDEM membership include: access to the Nordic/Baltic early music network free advertising in printed materials, such as programmes and magazines visibility on the NORDEM website participation in NORDEM meetings and conferences opportunities to influence the development of the Early Music scene in the Nordic and Baltic countries More information: nordem.org CONTACT INFORMATION NORDEM c/o SEMF Götgatan 62, 6 tr SE-118 26 Stockholm Sweden E-mail: info@nordem.org Phone: +46 8 304329 CURRENT MEMBERS Barokkfest Early Music Festival (NO) barokkfest.no BRQ Vantaa Festival (FI) brq.fi Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival (DK) facebook.com/copenhagenrenaissancemusicfestival The International Bach Chamber Music Festival (LV) www.music.lv/bachfestival/en Det Kongelige Danska Musikkonservatorium (DK) dkdm.dk Föreningen för Tidig Musik (SE) fftm.se/blogg Modus Senter for Middelaldermusik (NO) middelaldermusikk.no Musik i Syd (SE) musikisyd.se Næstved Early Music Festival (DK) nemf.dk NoMeMus (SE) nomemus.se Performing Premodernity (SE) performingpremodernity.com Skálholt Summer Concerts (IS) sumartonleikar.is Stockholm Early Music Festival (SE) semf.se The Grieg Academy University of Bergen (NO) kmd.uib.no/en/studies/music Tidlig Musik i Danmark (DK) tidligmusik.dk Vadstena-Akademien (SE) vadstena-akademien.org CONFERENCE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Peter Pontvik, Chair NORDEM, Artistic Director SEMF Mark Tatlow, Board member NORDEM Jesper Hamilton, Producer Musik i Syd, Treasurer NORDEM Helena Eriksson, Production Assistant Musik i Syd, Conference Coordinator NORDEM Thanks to Nordic Culture Point
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SARAH TEHRANIAN FIFTH NORDIC YOUNG EARLY MUSIC ENSEMBLE COMPETITION COPENHAGEN, DENMARK 21 22 SEPTEMBER 2018 hosted by Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival www.renaissancemusic.dk Every second year NORDEM (the Nordic Early Music Federation) arranges the EAR-ly the EAR-ly music music competition. The overall The overall aim of aim EAR-ly of EAR-ly is to encourage is to encourage the forma- the forma-tion of new of early new music early ensembles music ensembles and to stimulate and to stimulate an interest an in interest early music in among early music students among through students out the through Nordic out and the Baltic Nordic region. and Baltic Early music region. means Early music means renaissance medieval, or baroque renaissance repertoire, or baroque per formed repertoire, according per to formed the latest medieval, HIP according standards. to the The latest criteria HIP for standards. selection The are criteria musical for quality, selection detailed are musical stylistic knowledge, quality, detailed communicative stylistic knowledge, authenticity, communicative and, in the final authenticity, round, overall and, artistry. in Entrants the final must round, be overall born no artistry. earlier than Entrants 1 January must 1985. be born no earlier than 1 January 1985. The Final round of EAR-ly 2018 will be held 21 22 September in Copen hagen, Denmark, hosted by Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival. The competition The Final round of EAR-ly 2018 will be held 21 22 September in Copen invites applications from vocal, instrumental or mixed ensembles consisting of hagen, Denmark, hosted by Copenhagen Renaissance Music Festival. a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 8 members; vocal or instrumental soloists, The competition invites applications from vocal, instrumental or mixed performing either a lone or with 1 accompanist. ensembles consisting of a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 8 members; vocal or instrumental soloists, performing either a lone or with 1 For details of how to apply please visit www.nordem.org accompanist. The deadline for applications is 23:59 (CET) on 1 May 2018 For general inquiries please contact Helena Eriksson (NORDEM Secretary) at For secretary@nordem.org details of how to apply please visit www.nordem.org The deadline for applications is 23:59 (CET) on 1 May 2018 For general inquiries please contact Helena Eriksson (NORDEM Secretary) secretary@nordem.org