Save the date: Online Symposium on Classical Music Futures
18th January 2024, 1.00pm - 4.30pm (UTC+0)
Where can classical music organisations turn for help in a time of
uncertain funding, ageing audiences and precarious arts careers? Our AHRC
Network on ‘Collaborative Ecologies in Creative Cities
<https://sparc.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/research/ahrc-classical-music-network>’
suggests that they turn to each other, to share ideas, build networks and
increase resilience. We would like to invite music practitioners; music
educators and students; orchestral musicians, directors, and
administrators; as well as academic and artistic researchers to share their
thoughts and work on classical music ecologies at our online half day
symposium on 18th January 2024.
Classical music has for some time been described as existing in a state of
crisis. It faces challenges in balancing the need to address moral
imperatives of diversity, decolonisation and inclusion, without alienating
the established largely white, middle-class attenders who are the core
audience for traditional concert programmes. Within the orchestral
workforce, similarly, there are tensions between the training that players
have received and the skills they are expected to acquire ‘on the job’, to
deliver the learning and participation projects that aim to bring new
audiences to classical music and address elitism in music education. The
conservatoires that train these musicians are notoriously slow to change,
and so the inequalities of class, race, gender, and other barriers to
access that exist in the training institutions are perpetuated in the
orchestral sector and are becoming increasingly misaligned with the values
of funders, audiences and academic research.
It is our belief that these challenges are best tackled holistically, by
bringing together conservatoires, universities, orchestras, and audiences.
Cities across the UK and Europe typically contain a diverse range of
classical music institutions: venues, orchestras, ensembles, festivals,
conservatoires, universities, amateur groups, and individual practitioners
in seven cities across the UK and Europe. How these creative ecologies
function in shaping classical music futures, however, is little understood,
with work often siloed and collaborative potential lost. Presenting some of
the first results from the AHRC funded project "Networked Innovation in
Classical Music: Collaborative Ecologies in Creative Cities", this
symposium intends to explore how local partners can assess and encourage
their cities as sites for innovation in the face of such challenges.
This symposium will be held online. Please register here:
https://www.aanmelder.nl/150417
For queries, please contact [log in to unmask]
Symposium organisers:
Prof Peter Peters, Director Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of
Classical Music (MCICM), Maastricht University
Prof Stephanie Pitts, Director Sheffield Performer & Audience Research
Centre (SPARC), Sheffield University
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Professor Stephanie E. Pitts
Department of Music, University of Sheffield
Jessop Building, 34 Leavygreave Road, S3 7RD
*Please note that I do not work on Mondays: thanks for your patience if you
have to wait for an email reply*
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/people/academic-staff/stephanie-pitts
Research news: sparc.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Consultancy projects: sparcconsultancy.org
<https://www.sparcconsultancy.org/>
Twitter/'X': @SPARCsheffield <https://twitter.com/SPARCsheffield>
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