You have been invited to join the cortege of the opening of the academic year 2021/2022
Venue: Theater aan het Vrijthof
Date: Monday 6 September 2021
Time: 15.30-17.15
Due to health and safety regulations related to the pandemic, the number of seats this year is strictly limited and we can unfortunately not accommodate spouses.
Would you like to know more about our bachelor's or master's programmes? Then our student ambassadors are the right people to contact. After all, who knows more about our programmes than our own students? Our student ambassadors are happy to talk to you.
We are very pleased to announce that education at FASoS will take place on-campus. This means that we expect all students to be present on location for the introduction days and their educational activities.
Did you graduate, but would you like to improve your language skills? The UM Language Centre offers graduates from Maastricht University discount when attending language courses. As a graduate, you pay the same price as the employees of the university. So do you need a foreign language for your career? Or do you want to learn a foreign language for another reason? Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, French, Dutch or…? Invest in yourself and your future with our online courses and build skills that will last a lifetime!
Our doors are open from September onwards, and you will be able to study as you should be: on campus! Corona will not be completely gone after the summer. Therefore, we will do everything we can to welcome you safely into our buildings. On this page we would like to explain what this means for you as a prospective student at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.
Curious about our faculty? Take a sneak-peek. We look forward to welcoming you!
Being present in Maastricht gives you a rich 'Maastricht experience'. It enables you to:
The Dutch government is making a strong appeal to the common sense and responsibility of our citizens in fighting the crisis: Together, we’ll get coronavirus under control in the Netherlands. On the website of the Government of the Netherlands you can find information about what the Dutch government – together with other organisations – is doing. You can check out the current roadmap of measures against coronavirus, FAQs on health, read about the education sector and many more topics.
To get your academic year off to a good start, various introductory events are being organised. The two most popular events in for Maastricht are the INKOM (focused on student life) and the FHML introduction days (focused on education). Besides introductory events, you can expect to find information about student associations, UM Sports and the one-stop-(information)shop for all international students!
The INKOM is the general introduction week of Maastricht for all new students of Maastricht University and Zuyd University of Applied Sciences. INKOM is a typical Dutch student life introduction, a cooperation of uni students and study assocations, focused on the student life not on the content of the educational programmes. Given the current COVID-19 crisis, INKOM 2021 will take place as a partly digital and partly physical event. But... don't worry! We are working hard to make INKOM 2021 a great edition! Block 16-20 August if you want to join the INKOM 2020. Registration opens on 28 June. Do you want the latest updates? Then follow @INKOMmaastricht on social media!
During a one-day Faculty Introduction at the end of August, you will get to know the faculty FHML, the health campus and your fellow students. Everything is organised in such a way that it is corona-proof. The activities on that day - such as a lecture and games - are on campus. And for the whole day you will be partnered up with the students of your tutorial group, so you know each other already when education kicks of.
At FHML, there are several study associations. As a member of a study association everything is possible, but nothing is mandatory.
At the study associations you can:
enjoy lots of activities with your fellow students;
receive discount on books and study materials;
get exam training and study support;
attend lectures and workshops focused on your study programme and career;
help to improve the educational system.
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Are you an international student who is planning to come to Maastricht in August? And are you looking for information regarding Health, Transport, Housing and Finances as well as Sports, Media and Community in Maastricht? Then Mymaastricht is the place for you! Mymaastricht.nl is the one-stop information platform to help international students find their way in the city. They reach students via their website, blog and social media, as well as by running workshops during the University open days. Mymaastricht works with the University and the "Gemeente" (the local municipality) to help give students the best start to their life in the city.
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The Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music arose from the need to reflect on and actively shape the future of classical music. This conference sought to engage with the different ways that practitioners are constructing this future, while considering critically the process of ‘futuring’ itself. The aim was not to simply imagine a distant future over which we have no control but to show how imagining the future of classical music informs our work today.
The MCICM symposium offered diverse presentations and casual networking moments to engage in meaningful discussions. Below are some of the sessions from the two-day digital symposium that took place on 21 and 22 April 2021. We would like to thank the speakers, moderators, and participants for coming together in this digital space.
For more information about the event and the sessions, you can see the program here.
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
Speakers: Stephanie Pitts, University of Sheffield, UK; Karen Burland, University of Leeds, UK; Tom Spurgin, Manchester Collective, UK; Adam Szabo, Manchester Collective, UK
Moderator: Denise Petzold, MCICM, the Netherlands
Experiences of live vs online performance
Speaker: Michelle Philips, Royal Northern College of Music, UK
Audience Experience in Film-with-Live-Orchestra Concerts: Towards a Theory of Liveness
Speaker: 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
Speaker: Noga Rachel Chelouche, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Moderator: Peter Peters, MCICM, the Netherlands
Orchestrating Positive Change Leaders on (and off) Stage: supporting the best to become even better
Speakers: 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
Speaker: Jenny Maclay, Brandon University, Canada
Meaningful Music in Healthcare: Classical musicians inside hospital wards
Speaker: Krista de Wit, Prince Claus Conservatoire, Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, the Netherlands
What Could Curatorial Practices Mean for the Future of Classical Music?
Speakers: 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
Moderator: Stefan Rosu, philharmonie zuid, the Netherlands
Producing futures: how futures matter in the present
Harro van Lente, Maastricht University, the Netherlands
Moderator: Ties van de Werff, MCICM, the Netherlands
Artificial Intelligence and the Orchestra
Speaker: Robert Laidlow, Royal Northern College of Music, UK
Gameful Music Performances for Smart, Inclusive, and Sustainable Societies
Speakers: Micha Hamel, Royal Academy of the Arts, the Netherland; Annebeth Erdbrink, Delft University for Technology, the NetherlandsRemote Collaboration: Communication, Creativity, and Latency
Speaker: David Cotter, University of Cambridge, UK
Moderator: Joachim Junghanss, Conservatorium Maastricht, the Netherlands
Händel goes Tinder: Reimagining opera for a 21st-century audience
Speakers: 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
Speakers: 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?
Speaker: Maia Sigua, VanoSarajishvili,Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Georgia
Moderator: Neil Smith, MCICM, the Netherlands
Monsieur Croche -Concerts at Eye Level
Speaker: Tal Walker, Royal College of Music, UK
Creating futures: the shifting practice of the Composer-performer in the Lockdown era
Speaker: Josh Spear, Norwegian Academy of Music, Norway
SaffronHall Faces the Future
Speakers: Angela Dixon, CEO Saffron Hall; Barry Ife, Chairman of the Saffron Hall Trust
Moderator: Peter Peters, MCICM, the Netherlands
The Voice Party: Participatory Principles and the Future of Musical Performance
Speaker: Lore Lixenberg, University of York, UK Bringing the political into Western classical music Speaker: Hanna Grześkiewic
Bringing the political into Western classical music
Speaker: Hanna Grześkiewicz, ‘The Hermes Experiment’ and Alternative Classical, Germany
Can performance techniques make the future of classical music more inclusive?
Speaker: Ilona Sie Dhian Ho, Royal Conservatoire, the Netherlands
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
Moderator: Neil T. Smith, MCICM, the Netherlands
Whose Future?
Speakers:Kirsteen Davidson Kelly, Schottish Chambre Orchestra, UK; George E. Lewis, Columbia University, USA; Maria Hansen, ELIA European Art School Confederation, the Netherlands
Closing remarks by Peter Peters, MCICM, the Netherlands
