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– Karin von Welck, Culture Senator and Patron
– Experience music! Moritz Eggert, composer
– Christoph Lieben-Seutter, Managing Director HamburgMusik gGmbH
– Experience music! Hartmut Fladt, musicologist
– Klaus Wehmeier, Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board, Körber
Foundation
– Experience music! Simon Halsey, Rundfunkchor Berlin
The architecture of the Elbphilharmonie. Ascan Mergenthaler, Partner in Charge for the Elbphilharmonie, Herzog & de Meuron
– Ideas: International music education programmes
7 short presentations from the USA and Europe
– Culture Café: Abstraction and development of further ideas
Moderated small groups and plenum
“Availability and experience. Listening to music in the modern
age”
Gerhard Schulze, University of Bamberg
– Music Education I: Potential for concert halls
(marketing, visitor loyalty programmes, fundraising)
Art museums are setting an example: Their associations of friends often include a large number of members who are not only potential visitors but in many cases also provide their institution with further means, such as an acquisition budget for young contemporary art. Is this transferable to concert halls? The thesis is: If music education is understood as a versatile approach that considers all aspects of music performance then it can achieve a greater proximity to the music which is appealing to the audience and acts as a bond. Why should such associations of friends not be engaged for fundraising? The formation of such societies of friends, which are for instance involved in specific musical themes through a series of lectures, excursions etc. may, for example, in the long run lead to a commission for a composition. How must a concert hall in the field of music education be positioned in terms of personnel, structure and finance so that it can be employed for visitor bonding and fundraising?
Discussion with: Jillian Barker, Head of Education, Barbican-Center; Myran Parker Brass, Head of Education, Boston Symphony Hall
– Music Education II: Potential for the city/ region
(cultural identity, urban development, integration)
A concert hall appears like a nodal point in the close meshed cultural net of a city. How do the city and its inhabitants perceive this house? Besides the positive effects it has on infrastructure and tourism what impulses can it give to urban development? Which creative scenes settle around such a concert hall or are inspired by it (creative class)? How is the house accepted in the neighbourhood and how in the region? How can a concert hall bring together people of different origin and cultural characteristics? Which cultural influences can it accommodate, reflect and, for example, correlate to the classical concert tradition?
Discussion with: Joan Albert Serra, Head of Vocal and Instrument Learning, The Sage Gateshead; Assumpció Malagarriga, L’Auditori Barcelona
– Music Education III: Potential of partnerships
(exchange, cooperations, networks)
The symposium is making a start: Which co-operations can the concert halls in Germany, other European countries or also the USA envisage? Is it always necessary to invent new music education programmes? Could programmes and ideas be exchanged between the concert halls? Where is it possible to resort to qualified experience? How could music education programmes be “certified” i.e. be provided with a seal of approval? How can audiovisual archives, libraries or simply toolboxes be maintained so that media material – preferably copyright free - can be accessed for music education? Would it not be helpful if an alliance of concert halls approached the record industry and other media companies in order to conclude appropriate general agreements? What is the assessment of the chances of such an approach?
Discussion with: Thomas Rietschel, President of the Academy for Music and Performing Arts Frankfurt; Ingrid Allwardt, executive director netzwerk junge ohren
Elite temple vs. house for all – what makes concert halls successful
Discussion with: Dieter Rexroth, artistic director young.euro.classic and Kasseler Musiktage; Elmar Lampson, President of College of Music and Theatre Hamburg; Christoph Lieben-Seutter, Managing Director HamburgMusik gGmbH. Moderation: Andrea Thilo, producer of the film “Rhythm is it!”