Uit eerder onderzoek van het lectoraat Lifelong Learning in Music weten we dat in contact komen met muziek, en muziek maken van grote betekenis kan zijn voor het welzijn van mensen met dementie. In het project ‘Muziek in het Odensehuis’ stond niet alleen de rol van muziek voor mensen met dementie centraal …

Liber amicorum on the occasion of the retirement of research group member dr. Peter Mak, with a variety of articles by current and former research members of the research group.

The main focus of this article is on performance anxiety and stage fright in musicians, seen through the lens of biographical research. In short, biographical research deals with research into learning, taking as point of departure that important learning always needs to be understood in relation to …

This chapter gives an overview on the Healthy Ageing research portfolio of the research group Lifelong Learning in Music (Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, the Netherlands). Lifelong learning enables musicians to respond to the continuously changing context in which they are working nowadays, …

This essay addresses the relationship of improvisation and identity. Biographical research that was conducted by the author into professional musicians’ lifelong learning showed the huge importance of improvisation for personal expression. Musically, the concept of sound appeared to serve as a strong …

Introduction to symposium on everyday culture participation/music at Onderzoeksconferentie Cultuureducatie en Cultuurparticipatie, LKCA, Utrecht, 23/11/2015.