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“Conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has been my best conducting experience yet.”, says Erle Kont

Tiesitkö, että Suomessa ja Virossa toimi 1800-luvun lopulla ja 1900-luvun alussa kymmeniä, ellei satoja naisia, jotka elättivät itsensä opettamalla pianonsoittoa? Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik kartoittaa Oma luokkahuone -tutkimushankkeessaan heidän vaiheitaan Helsingin ja Tallinnan kaupungeissa. Samalla projekti avaa uusia näkökulmia musiikin historiankirjoituksen nerokultteihin ja miesvoittoisiin kaanoneihin Koillis-Euroopassa.

It is important for music educators to recognize the role music can play in our interactions with the world. This is particularly noteworthy given our urgent need to address large-scale issues such as climate change and social responsibility. Can employing a lens of context that includes connection and relationships, alongside the delivery of content within music pedagogy, help to create space for deeper learning, engagement, behaviour change, or transformation?

“It’s important to know our strengths and how to use this to stand out. Networking will allow us to create opportunities for ourselves once we enter the workforce.”

If ecology is a systemic issue about making the world a living space for all human beings and their environment, then music educators have a say in it. It is the responsibility of music educators to reflect on how they can inflect a robust system to make it more democratic in terms of both pedagogy and accessibility. Their ability to enact this responsibility is also about democracy. May we foster the propagation of democratic waves in our society, and may these waves have a sustainable impact on ecology.

Collaborative artistic research studio that engages with the themes of environmental data, sensing, and contamination.

Rockin ja politiikan suhde oli kompleksinen Neuvostoliitossa, jossa kukoisti omalaatuinen rockkulttuuri aina 1960-luvulta alkaen. Antti Okko luo kirjoituksessaan katsauksen muusikoiden elämään neuvosto- ja nykytodellisuuksissa.

Thursday Forum meetings take place in the afternoon, from 1 pm to 2.30 pm. The meetings start with a presentation of an hour and half, including discussion on any questions raised, followed by another hour and half (2.45 pm to 4 pm) of discussion on an academic text (or seminar paper) related to the theme of the day (so-called “extra time”).