Presentie gehouden bij een besloten expert meeting van de KNAW en de Boekmanstichting in Amsterdam. Door de ogen van de ander kijken: kunst als veranderkracht. Ik maak graag van de gelegenheid gebruik om iets te vertellen vanuit mijn werk als lector aan het PCC van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen. Samen …

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 …

Lecture for Symposium CityProms, 26 June 2015, Leeuwarden

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.

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 …

A shared heart. In this contribution the research project spanning 5 years is discussed and the bringing of this practice to The Netherlands is explained. The results of the Music and Dementia project were presented during the symposium called 'While the Music Lasts - a symposium on Music and Dementia' …

Building a sense of community and social connection through spontaneous music making.Interactive 'jamming' in corners, courtyards, corridors, bedrooms and social spaces between staff, musicians and older adults with dementia has become a regular part of Monday afternoons at St Vincent’s Residential Aged …

Learning by elderly people. A contextual and biographical view on how elderly people learn in music and its consequences for arts participation. Presentation April 8, 2014 – International conference Grundtvig ‘Art-Age!’, Utrecht

The capacity to make music and understand it is an evolutionary development not shared by animals. Learning to play an instrument has been shown to involve the development of larger brain volume. A strong correlation has been found between high musical activity and preservation of non-verbal memory, …