SYMPOSIUM 2 – Sibelius Academy, Folk Music Department, Helsinki (FI)

Folk music pedagogy as a tool for intercultural music education

PROCEEDINGS

Thursday 11 november 2010

  • Opening of symposium Rector of Sibelius Academy, DMus, pianist Gustav Djupsjöbacka
  • Professor, PhD Hannu Saha, SibA (FI)
  • Folk music pedagogy in kantele groups for young children,Vilma Timonen
  • My experience in Intercultural Artistry, Arnold Chiwalala
  • The wisdom of traditional children´s games, Soili Perkiö
  • Runosong as a form of cultural communication, Pekka Huttu-Hiltunen
  • Engaging with languages through song – La chanson du retour, Sarah Kekus (PDF , Presentation )
  • Folk Music Style - a tool for integration between cultures? About the teaching methods at the Folk Music Department at KMH in Stockholm, Susanne Rosenberg
  • Working in a multinational folk choir,Veera Voima and Kassandra choir
  • “Exploring a sea of music” - An educational program that exploits and highlights the common musical heritage of the Mediterranean region, Nikolaos Terpsiades (PDF , Presentation )
  • Storytelling - The Art of Translation, Nick Hennessey

Friday 12 november 2010

  • Folk music pedagogy at the Sibelius Academy - improvisation, expression and the human voice as tools for developing the musicians´ personality, Kristiina Ilmonen
  • Working with multicultural education in a music academy, Jonas Simonson (PDF )
  • Across musics - a model for including musics of the world in the classroom, Eva Fock (Presentation )
  • Common grounds, different backgrounds - world music education at the WMDC in Rotterdam, Oscar van der Pluijm
  • Multicultural music education as a tool for understanding one’s own roots, Pekka Toivanen
  • Challenging the idiom - the role of orally based reflection in the meeting between style and instrumental idioms in Swedish Folk Music, Sven Ahlbäck with drummer Petter Berndalen (PDF )
  • Tanchaz as a Starting Point of the Revival of Hungarian Folk Music, Ferenc Sebö (PDF )
  • Let´s Play! The Näppäri pedagogy; expanding from Kaustinen to Scandinavia and South Africa, Mauno Järvelä & colleagues (PDF )