Ouderen en muziek. Workshop at the ICON conference in Helsinki on Music and the Elderly. Het ICON seminar staat in het teken van onderzoek. We verkennen onder andere werkvormen en benaderingen die bruikbaar zijn voor onderzoek met musici. Tijdens de workshop ‘ouderen en muziek’ werken we met de intervisie …

Music makes a difference?! The values of music.Music and culture play a significant role in the political and societal development of a peaceful and integrative Europe. Music and its diverse expressions are extremely relevant for social cohesion, wellbeing and economic growth. What kind of an impact …

Wisdom of a different kind: a case study of experienced and novice music teachers learning from each other.

This paper will detail an ethnographic research that has been conducted into the practice of ‘Music for Life’, managed by Wigmore Hall in London. The aim is creating interactive music workshops for people with dementia and there carers as a group in residential care homes. Throughout one eight-week project …

This study aims to find answers to what kind of skills, qualities and understandings are needed for a musician working with elderly people with dementia, and what kinds of challenges they might encounter.

This study aims to find answers to what kind of skills, qualities and understandings are needed for a musician working with elderly people with dementia, and what kinds of challenges they might encounter.

Active ageing through music. Presentation ‘Active Ageing through Music’. Conference ‘Healthy Ageing, Practice and Innovation at the Four Universities of Applied Sciences in the Northern Netherlands’, Groningen, 8/11/2012.

Presentatie tijdens de jaarlijkse vrijwilligersbijenkomst van Alzheimer Nederland

Deze paper geeft een overzicht van het onderzoek dat verricht is door het lectoraat LLM naar muziek en dementie. De methodologie van de etnografie wordt toegelicht, het principe van de analyse via grounded theory en de thick descriptions die vervolgens zijn gemaakt eveneens. Er wordt ingegaan op wat …

While the music lasts. Presentation, Wigmore Hall, London, 2012.