Join us for a seminar exploring inclusive contemporary music practice and how we can collaborate across the Nordics, Baltics and Scotland to enhance equity for disabled composers and musicians.
The seminar is for composers, musicians, music educators and those in the wider contemporary music and culture field. Learn more about innovative practice and key challenges, connect with a cross-border network and contribute to a more inclusive future for the contemporary music and sound sector.
Key information
Free, booking required
- Date: 14 November
- Time: 10.30 – 16.00
- Location: Kulturværftet, Helsingør, Denmark
- Optional evening concert: HSO Friday Fusion - Beats, Sounds and Strings with Elefantöra and Gageego19.00 at Helsinborg Koncerthus (25% discount code on registration)
- Language: English
The seminar is the first event of the New Music ExChange project, bringing together organisations from the Nordics, Scotland and the Baltics to create new opportunities, share knowledge and challenge barriers in music education, festivals and professional practice.
As part of the work we are also conducting a ‘temperature check’ to map the current level of knowledge about inclusive practice and hear from composers and artists about their experience. We invite you to take the survey, which takes five minutes.
Programme
10.30 Coffee and arrivals
11.00 Welcome: Katrine Feldinger, Head of Scottish Government Nordic OfficeContext: Juliana Hodkinson, Chair of Danish Composers Society Artistic practice - panel discussion:Chair: Juliana Hodkinson, with Ben Lunn (Scotland), Jonathan Mesterton Pitter (Denmark) and Merilyn Jaeski (Estonia)Good practice and inspiration: Sophia Alexandersson, Share Music and Performing Arts (Sweden) Thursa Sanderson, Drake Music (Scotland)
12.30 Lunch
13.30 European development and support Lorena Martinez Mier, Europe Beyond Access (Sweden) Nicoline Joy Haas, Creative Europe Desk Denmark, Agency for Culture and Palaces Discussion Groups:School music education: Widening participation and teacher training, with Markku Kaikkonen, Director, Music Centre Resonaari (Finland)Alternative pathways for composer career development, with Mattias Svensson Sandell, Gotlands Tonsättarskola (Gotlands Composer School, Sweden)Repertoire development, with Ben LunnPolicy and funding: Changing the landscape, with Katrine FeldingerFestival and event promoters: Access on and off stage, with Rachel Faulkner
15.30 Closing: Making the shift with Regin Peterson, Art Music Denmark Juliana Hodkinson, Danish Composers Society
19.00 Optional Concert. Seminar participants receive a 25% ticket discount on concert tickets. Booking information provided following sign-up for the seminar.
New Music ExChange is a collaboration between:
- Nordics: ShareMusic & Performing Arts, Danish Composers’ Society (on behalf of the Council of Nordic Composers, NKR), and Nordic Music Days – an initiative of NKR and its member societies in Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
- Baltics: The Baltic Contemporary Music Network, representing the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Composers’ Unions.
- Scotland: Drake Music Scotland.
Supported byThis project is made possible with support from Erasmus+ financed by the European Union, the Nordic Culture Point Culture and Art Programme financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Swedish–Danish Fund, the Swedish–Lithuanian Fund, Kulturværftet, Helsingør and Helsingborgs Konserthus.
