MCICM Symposium 2021
Towards 2040: Creating Classical Music Futures, 21&22 April 2021
Het Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music is ontstaan vanuit de behoefte om na te denken over en actief vorm te geven aan de toekomst van klassieke muziek. Deze conferentie probeerde in te gaan op de verschillende manieren waarop beoefenaars deze toekomst construeren, terwijl het proces van 'futuring' zelf kritisch werd overwogen. Het doel was niet om ons simpelweg een verre toekomst voor te stellen waar we geen controle over hebben, maar om te laten zien hoe de verbeelding van de toekomst van klassieke muziek ons werk vandaag bepaalt.
Het MCICM-symposium bood diverse presentaties en informele netwerkmomenten om zinvolle discussies aan te gaan. Hieronder zijn enkele van de sessies van het tweedaagse digitale symposium dat op 21 en 22 april 2021 plaatsvond. We willen de sprekers, moderators en deelnemers bedanken voor het samenkomen in deze digitale ruimte.
Voor meer informatie over het evenement en de sessies kunt u hier het programma bekijken.
Woensdag 21 April 2021
Sessie 1a Musicians of the Future
Moderator: Joachim Junghanss, Conservatorium Maastricht, the Netherlands
Becoming a classical musician of the future: the effects of training and experience on performer attitudes to innovation
Sprekers: Stephanie Pitts, University of Sheffield, UK; Karen Burland, University of Leeds, UK; Tom Spurgin, Manchester Collective, UK; Adam Szabo, Manchester Collective, UK

Sessie 1b Future Performance formats
Moderator: Denise Petzold, MCICM, the Netherlands
Experiences of live vs online performance
Spreker: Michelle Philips, Royal Northern College of Music, UK
Audience Experience in Film-with-Live-Orchestra Concerts: Towards a Theory of Liveness
Spreker: Sureshkumar P.Sekar, Royal College of Music, UK
Classical Music and Contemporary Visual Art: Innovative Performance and Listening in the Works of the Artist Anri Sala
Spreker: Noga Rachel Chelouche, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Sessie 2a Future Musicians and Professional Development
Moderator: Peter Peters, MCICM, the Netherlands
Orchestrating Positive Change Leaders on (and off) Stage: supporting the best to become even better
Sprekers: Jane Booth, Guildhall School, UK; Trudy Wright, Guildhall School, UK
The Rise of the Individual: Leveraging Social Currency and Personal Branding in the Future of Classical Music
Spreker: Jenny Maclay, Brandon University, Canada
Meaningful Music in Healthcare: Classical musicians inside hospital wards
Spreker: Krista de Wit, Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, the Netherlands

Sessie 2b Curation and Concert Formats
What Could Curatorial Practices Mean for the Future of Classical Music?
Sprekers: Ed McKeon, Goldsmiths University of London, UK; Brandon Farnsworth, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland; Mirjam Zegers, ArtEZ, the Netherlands; Annemarie Reitsma, ArtEz, the Netherlands

Keynote lecture
Moderator: Stefan Rosu, philharmonie zuid, the Netherlands
Producing futures: how futures matter in the present
Harro van Lente, Maastricht University, the Netherlands

Donderdag 22 April 2021
Sessie 3a The Promise of Technology
Moderator: Ties van de Werff, MCICM, the Netherlands
Artificial Intelligence and the Orchestra
Spreker: Robert Laidlow, Royal Northern College of Music, UK
Gameful Music Performances for Smart, Inclusive, and Sustainable Societies
Sprekers: Micha Hamel, Royal Academy of the Arts, the Netherland; Annebeth Erdbrink, Delft University for Technology, the NetherlandsRemote Collaboration: Communication, Creativity, and Latency
Spreker: David Cotter, University of Cambridge, UK

Sessie 3b Opera Futures
Moderator: Joachim Junghanss, Conservatorium Maastricht, the Netherlands
Händel goes Tinder: Reimagining opera for a 21st-century audience
Sprekers: Channa Malkin, OperaBitchesand Stichting Gooisch Klassiek, the Netherlands; Anastasia Kozlova, OperaBitchesand Stichting Gooisch Klassiek, the Netherlands
“Alice in the Pandemic” An opera for the Pandemic and the Promise of New Possibilities
Sprekers: Cerise Jacobs, Founder, Creator and Librettist, Producer, White Snake Projects; Jorge Sosa, Composer and Electronic Sound Artist; Tianhui Ng, Conductor and Music Director
The Fish’s Letters: A Facebook-Opera?
Spreker: Maia Sigua, VanoSarajishvili,Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Georgia

Sessie 4b The Future of the Concert Hall
Moderator: Neil Smith, MCICM, the Netherlands
Monsieur Croche -Concerts at Eye Level
Spreker: Tal Walker, Royal College of Music, UK
Creating futures: the shifting practice of the Composer-performer in the Lockdown era
Spreker: Josh Spear, Norwegian Academy of Music, Norway
SaffronHall Faces the Future
Sprekers: Angela Dixon, CEO Saffron Hall; Barry Ife, Chairman of the Saffron Hall Trust

Sessie 5b Politics and Inclusion
Moderator: Peter Peters, MCICM, the Netherlands
The Voice Party: Participatory Principles and the Future of Musical Performance
Spreker: Lore Lixenberg, University of York, UK
Bringing the political into Western classical music
Spreker: Hanna Grześkiewicz, ‘The Hermes Experiment’ and Alternative Classical, Germany
Can performance techniques make the future of classical music more inclusive?
Spreker: Ilona Sie Dhian Ho, Royal Conservatoire, the Netherlands

Keynote lecture
Moderator: Peter Peters, MCICM, the Netherlands
Future challenges: Can art make constructive contributions to solving current civil society challenges and what roles can classical concerts or opera performances play in this?
Helmut Seidenbusch, Director for Cultural Education atStiftung Mercator, Germany

Ronde tafel en Sluiting
Moderator: Neil T. Smith, MCICM, the Netherlands
Whose Future?
Sprekers:Kirsteen Davidson Kelly, Schottish Chambre Orchestra, UK; George E. Lewis, Columbia University, USA; Maria Hansen, ELIA European Art School Confederation, the Netherlands
Slotopmerkingen door Peter Peters, MCICM, the Netherlands
