ACTIVITIES ERASMUS PRIZE 2010

Activities accompanying the Erasmus Prize 2010 for Jose Antonio Abreu

    - CONFERENCE

    - TELEVISION

    - CONCERT

    - CINEMA

Conference Music: Teaching the teachers 
Friday 24 September 2010, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam
Organised in cooperation with the Amsterdam Concertgebouw

Music: Teaching the teachers
Chair: Simon Reinink, Director Concertgebouw

Morning
10.00 Opening by Simon Reinink

First session Conferentie
Different systems: merits and challenges of El Sistema

10.15  The Music and Culture Programma – Music is for Everyone - Sissel Larsen, Norway
10.35  El Sistema in Portugal – Antonio Wagner Diniz, Portugal
10.55  Sistema Scotland, Creating and Making a Big Noise – Nicola Killean, Scotland

11.15  Coffee break

11.45  Key note David Ascanio, Venezuela

12.05 Presentation of the manifesto “Muziek telt”
an initiative of Netherlands Music Centre, Kunstfactor and Cultuurparticipatie Fund

12.20  Panel discussion

13.00  Lunch break

Afternoon
14.00  Presentation of the FORUM Annual Lecture 2009

14.15  Second session in three round tables (language Dutch):
  1. Methodology in practice (the teacher and music-educational methods); moderator: Bertien Minco, director Netherlands Jeugd Cultuur Fonds
  2. Relation school and school of music (the school teacher and the music teacher from outside the school); moderator: Rob Streevelaar, director Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
  3. Music lessons as socio-cultural policy (the school teacher and the social context, pupils and parents); moderator: Andries Mulder, director Amsterdam Conservatory
      
15.45  Tea / coffee break

16.15  Plenary evaluation of the round table discussions

17.00  Closure, drinks

Registration via conference@erasmusprijs.org. Please state your name, address, position and the session you want to attend: the whole day, the morning session or the afternoon session, lunch, and the round table you prefer to take part in.

Television El Sistema. Music to Change Life, a film by Paul Smaczny and Maria Stodtmeier
Sunday 26 September 1 p.m. Nederland 2. This documentary was awarded the Edison for the best classical music documentary on DVD in June this year.

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Concert Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Conductor: Christian Vásquez

Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Thursday 7 October 2010 – 20.15 hrs

* Bernstein - Ouverture (from 'Candide')
* Shostakovich - Ninth Symphony in E-flat, op. 70
* Tchaikovsky - Fifth Symphony in E, op. 64

The Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra presents a remarkable and convincing proof of the fact that a well thought-out music education can work wonders. This orchestra, consisting of secundary school pupils is a product of El Sistema, the innovating music programme of Venezuela. Their performance is a captivating event and they play at an incredibly high level. An extra festive concert, because the founder of El Sistema, Jose Antonio Abreu, is awarded with the Erasmus Prize 2010.

Tickets:
Box office Concertgebouw Amsterdam
Tel. 0900 6718345
On line: www.concertgebouw.nl

Cinema El Sistema, Music to Change Life, a film by Paul Smaczny and Maria Stodtmeier. This documentary was awarded the Edison for the best classical music documentary on DVD in June this year.

Friday 8 October 2010, 17.00 hrs.
EYE Film Instituut Nederland
Vondelpark 3, Amsterdam

www.eyefilm.nl