Presentation about my PhD research for MMus students of the Prince Claus Conservatoire

An oral presentation on the practice of and research into the programme Music for Life

Prof. Dr. Rineke Smilde and René van Munster have been invited to present the music practices developed by the research group Lifelong Learning in Music in the field of music and health care to students and invited guests of the Royal Academy of Music Arhus (Denmark). Among the invited guests are policy …

Design research is used to develop a piano method for use by Cochlear Implant users. The method is designed to promote audiomotor integration rather than visuomotor integration, but will not involve singing. It is based on our current understanding of brain function, in particular the concepts of the …

Lecture at opening of a museum exhibition

We are living in an era in which much is expected of the arts. But mostly not of the arts by themselves, but of the arts in conjunction with the outside world, be it other disciplines, or be it people who are not artists themselves. In the project The silence of the bees, we expect something form the …

Voormalig Hoofd Chirurgie van het UMCG Erik Heineman en docent-onderzoeker Lifelong Learning in Music Krista Pyykönen vertellen over het onderzoek dat in het UMCG gedaan wordt naar de betekenis van live-muziek voor oudere chirurgische patiënten. In de afgelopen jaren hebben diverse muziekprojecten plaatsgevonden …

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