Invited lecture for Symposium CityProms, Leeuwarden, 26/6/2015

Guest blog (Dutch) on music education at Cultureel-Kapitaal-website of LKCA.

Heeft muziek een positief impact op hersenfunctie bij ouderen? Kan het de aanzet van geheugenverlies en dementie vertragen of zelfs verbetering veroorzaken? Studies van hersenplasticticiteit laten een effect van muziekbeoefening op hersenvolume zien. Bovendien blijkt het (procedural) muziekgeheugen veel …

Presentatie gehouden bij de opening van het Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre tijdens het Music, Health, and Wellbeing Symposium.

Gastcollege, Music Academy Sarajevo, 19-3-2015

Gastcollege, Music Academy Sarajevo, 17-3-2015

As a consequence of restructuring instrumental music education in the Netherlands, Art Centres increasingly cease to facilitate instrumental music lessons. As a consequence, instrumental teachers are no longer employed in these Centres and have started working as independent entrepreneurs now. The question …

Learning together: music teachers forming a community of practice.As a consequence of restructuring instrumental music education in the Netherlands, Art Centres increasingly cease to facilitate instrumental music lessons. As a consequence, instrumental teachers are no longer employed in these Centres …

“If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” Evert Bisschop Boele challenges this idea and thinks about new audiences for music in changing times. Evert is Professor (‘lector’) of New Audiences at the Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen in …

Lezing voor symposium met Friese muziekscholen, 5-2-2015