Conference Agenda
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Agenda Overview |
| Date: Thursday, 09/Apr/2026 | |||||||||
| 8:15am - 8:45am |
Warm-up:Body & Rhythm (Werner Rohrer, Christian Martinsich) Location: 03-Öhlberger Studio (AW) Chair: Christian Martinsich |
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| 8:45am - 10:00am |
Keynote - Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Beutel - The Challenge of Education for Democracy Location: 01-Fanny Hensel Saal (AW) Chair: Isolde Malmberg This keynote session will take place in four parallel rooms interconnected via live streaming:
Please make sure to arrive on time if you want to attend a keynote. Conference helpers will be on site to help you to choose a room and find a seat. You may choose a different room at each keynote. Questions and remarks to the presenter will be possible from all rooms. |
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| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
Symposium Location: 01-Fanny Hensel Saal (AW) Promoting Inclusivity and Equal Participation through Instrumental and Vocal Tuition in General Schools? – A Symposium on the Establishment of an EAS Special Focus Group for Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogy in Schools Presentations of the Symposium Crossing Boundaries: A New Qualification Track for Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogues in Schools A Polyphony of Expectations: Instrumental, Vocal and Dance Teaching at the Interface between School and Music School Teaching at the Crossroads: How Music School Teachers Navigate Artistic Standards and Inclusive Mandates in Public School Settings Between School and Amateur Music: Reconstructing Cooperation in Classroom-based Wind Band Programs |
Symposium Location: 02-Clara Schumann Saal (AW) Here, There and Everywhere: 30 Years of Music Education Research – Advancing Democracy, Participation, and Diversity Presentations of the Symposium Participation through KulturCrew – Practice-based Research in Swedish Music School Artistic Expression – Lost in Transfer? Project-Based Learning in the Swedish Community Music School – A Democratic Approach to Music Education Folk Music Pedagogy and the Swedish Kulturskola – Bridging Traditions and Practices |
Student Forum Workshop Location: 03-Öhlberger Studio (AW) Chair: Oliver Krämer Chair: Branka Rotar Pance |
Papers - Music Mediation Location: 04-Konzertsaal FutureArtLab (AW) Chair: Stefanie Kreuzwieser Expanding Musical Horizons: Student Teachers’ Reflections on Experiencing Live Classical Music as a Pathway to Participation and Social Cohesion in Music Education „Concert Lab in school – reflecting musical culture, creating musical futures“ Becoming Teaching Artists: Transforming Italian Music Majors Through Family Concerts |
Papers - Democratic Practices Location: 05-Seminarraum IKM (AW) Chair: Julia Wieneke Beyond Aesthetics: Performing Arts Educators’ Aims, Motivations, Challenges, and the Future of Democratic Music Education Music Education 4.0: The Emergence of a Holistic, Human-Centered, Post-Digital Pedagogical Model Advancing Democratic, Inclusive, and Diverse Music Education Public Music Education and Democratic Practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia: Tradition, Accessibility, and Future Perspectives |
Workshop Location: 06-Hörsaal K0101 (AW) Democracy in Music Education - A TEAM Workshop |
No session Location: 07-Hörsaal M0101 (AW) |
Poster Slam (incl. DSF) Location: 08-Orchesterstudio (AW) Chair: Monika Rak Authors will give a brief synopsis of their work and discuss their projects with audience members. The posters will remain hanging in the poster gallery each day until 6 pm. Posters will be presented by participants of the EAS DSF: Aitchinson, Mark; Andreou, Thekla; Avgin, Irem; Aykaeva, Alexandra; Becker, Philipp; Bee, Rachel; Behzadaval, Bahareh; Calcavara, Desiree; Cortelazzo, Alessandra; Giesinger, Hubert; Kumar, Urška; Kürschner, Anna-Katharina; Kurshumlia, Momiza; Litos, Yiannis; Madalozzo, Vivian; Oettl, Florian; Polmanová, Vilam; Pučko, Špela; Roemer, Ramo; Roska, Nina; Tandurella, Dario; Vojtasova, Stepanka. Posters will also be presented by the following authors: Christofi, George; de Jong, Kike et al.; Hametner, Stephan; Kanteruka, Ruta; Kivi, Alexis et al.; Krebs, Matthias; Madalozzo, Vivian; Munksgaard Petersen, Helle; Oettl, Florian & Hammermueller, Viviane; Vander Hoek, Aleksandra Teresa. |
No session Location: 09-spiel-mach.t.raum (AW) |
| 12:00pm - 12:15pm |
Break |
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| 12:15pm - 1:15pm |
Roundtable Location: 01-Fanny Hensel Saal (AW) ‘(Un)finished Symphony?’ How can the new TEAM Learning Outcomes in Music Teacher Education advance participation, diversity and social cohesion in the music classroom? |
Roundtable Location: 02-Clara Schumann Saal (AW) School music education in a democratic and diverse Europe: Findings from a Comparative Study across 31 European Countries |
Workshop Location: 03-Öhlberger Studio (AW) Reclaiming the Singing Voice – Who Gets to Be Heard? Exploring Vocal Ideals, Participation, and Democratic practice in the Music Classroom |
Papers - Peer-assisted learning; Asessment in ME Location: 04-Konzertsaal FutureArtLab (AW) Chair: Andreas Lehmann-Wermser Peer-Assisted Learning in Secondary School Music Classrooms: Extending Active Pedagogies Beyond Performance Assessment in Music Education: Living Practices of Documentation and Belonging |
Papers - Early Childhood ME Location: 05-Seminarraum IKM (AW) Chair: Natassa Economidou Stavrou Playing with Nature: Inclusive Pathways to Music-Making in Early Childhood From Chaos to Connection: Building Social Cohesion Through Early Childhood Music Education |
No Session Location: 06-Hörsaal K0101 (AW) |
Papers - Arts education & genocide; Democracy under pressure Location: 07-Hörsaal M0101 (AW) Chair: Angeliki Triantafyllaki Music & dance education and mass atrocities: A meta-narrative review Democracy under Pressure: Policy, Power, and Professional Agency in English Music Education 2010–2025. |
Poster Gallery Location: 08-Orchesterstudio (AW) |
SF Reflection - closed session Location: 09-spiel-mach.t.raum (AW) Chair: Oliver Krämer Chair: Branka Rotar Pance |
| 1:15pm - 2:30pm |
Lunch Locations:
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| 2:00pm - 6:00pm |
Meditation SoundLab - "Come and Go – Stay as Long as You Like" – The Rostock Soundlab as an Open Space for Musical Exploration Location: 10-Lesesaal (Library) Chair: Oliver Krämer Chair: Benjamin Hecht Assisted by Marten Pankow and Mareike Grell, Hanna Morlock, Mathilde Lüderitz, Justus von Rohden, Judith Wallis |
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| 2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Symposium Location: 01-Fanny Hensel Saal (AW) From Access to Agency: Digital Pathways to Democratic Music Education Presentations of the Symposium Deconstructing Democracy in Music Education: A Power-Theoretical Perspective on Participatory Concepts Hijacking music on online platforms as a challenge for democracy and music education How do students use the cultural space of the Internet for informal music-related learning processes? |
Symposium Location: 02-Clara Schumann Saal (AW) Lived concerts as a Collaborative Training Model Between Educational and Cultural Communities Presentations of the Symposium The Performative Experience as a Pedagogical Tool in Music Education: A Study Based on the Service-Learning (SL) Methodology Pau Casals as a Leitmotif in a Live Musical Journey: Cultivating a Passion for Music, Children’s Rights, and a Culture of Peace Self-Regulated Creative Processes: A Service-Learning Approach in Higher Education |
Workshops Location: 03-Öhlberger Studio (AW) From stories to systems: music education as a participatory space for sustainability Finding Common Ground: Strategies for teaching music to children with SEND – snapshots from England and Sweden |
Papers - Instrumental music pedagogy Location: 04-Konzertsaal FutureArtLab (AW) Chair: Carmen Heß Cultivating Creative Agency: The CORE Model for Emergent Music Learning Navigating in the Borderland between Autonomy Support, Control and Chaos: Exploring Teacher and Student Perspectives in Finnish Instrumental Music Lessons through Comics CHALLENGES IN CULTIVATING MUSICAL INSTRUMENT PUPILS' LEARNING PERSISTENCE - A QUALITATIVE STUDY |
Papers - Interculturality and diversity Location: 05-Seminarraum IKM (AW) Chair: Benno Spieker The italian path of intercultural music education Title: Collaborative Ethnomusicological Practice: Collecting and Analyzing Multi-Ethnic Music Traditions through Student-led Documentationce: Collecting and Analyzing Multi-Ethnic Music Traditions through Student-led Documentation Textbooks, Representation, and Voice: Fostering Diversity in Kosovo’s Music Education Materials |
Workshops Location: 06-Hörsaal K0101 (AW) Fragments of Voices: Poetic Inquiry as a Method for Collaborative Meaning Making Postmigrant Perspectives on Music Education: Schools as arenas of negotiation for belonging and participation |
Papers - Democracy and Research Location: 07-Hörsaal M0101 (AW) Chair: Isolde Malmberg Democratising Design-based Research? Roles and degrees of participation in practitioner-researcher-collaborations Research Literacy as Democratic Practice: Exploring Music Teacher Students’ Engagement with Research-Based Knowledge |
Poster Gallery Location: 08-Orchesterstudio (AW) |
Symposium Location: 09-spiel-mach.t.raum (AW) dialoguing@rts – Advancing Cultural Literacy for Social Inclusion through Dialogical Arts Education Presentations of the Symposium Cultural literacy education: Challenges of a postcolonial large-scale study approach Ethnographies in Dialogue: Case Studies on Performative Artistic Practices Shaping Space: Participatory Artistic Residencies and Cultural Literacy in Practice |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Coffee Break |
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| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
Symposium Location: 01-Fanny Hensel Saal (AW) Promoting agency and participation through creative embodied approaches in music education Presentations of the Symposium Shared perspectives on embodiment in secondary music teacher education Active music listening and embodiment: movement integration Sensitive Convergences: Intersections between Digital Technologies, Live Arts, and Embodiment in the Colors Project |
Symposium Location: 02-Clara Schumann Saal (AW) Music educators’ research journeys: A genuine practitioner perspective Presentations of the Symposium The promise of practitioner research in music education Creative music education for democratic classrooms: Promoting ownership among beginner clarinetists A young person’s guide to orchestration: youth orchestra musician’s perspectives on their instrument part |
Workshop Location: 03-Öhlberger Studio (AW) Creative play with Portuguese music: unlocking voices and bodies, fostering children’s musical agency and protagonism |
Papers - Composing and musical invention Location: 04-Konzertsaal FutureArtLab (AW) Chair: Smaragda Chrysostomou Composing sustainability: two case studies exploring aesthetic and political dimensions in music education Evolving Narratives: Negotiation and Transformation in Children’s Musical Invention Insights into the music training of generalist teachers in special schools: Implications for SEND music-pedagogical practice |
Papers - Social Cohesion Location: 05-Seminarraum IKM (AW) Chair: Alexis Kivi Music, Values and Virtues in Montenegrin Schools: Socio-Emotional Learning and the Democratic Potential of Education Practice rooms and Creative Containers - providing facilities and access for all children to freely explore and engage with music Negotiating Democracy in Music Education: Teachers’ Contextual Reconstruction of Informal Music Learning in Chinese Primary Schools |
Workshop Location: 06-Hörsaal K0101 (AW) Sing Together! School-based Pop Choirs as Spaces of Participation |
Papers - AI and adaptive technologies in music education Location: 07-Hörsaal M0101 (AW) Chair: Wilfried Aigner Can the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Music Education Foster Participation and Agency? - A Case Study on Music Teachers’ Perspectives in Germany Co-Creating a Digital-Analog Music Lab – A New Materialist Approach to Diversity in Music Teacher Education Practical Inclusive Strategies and Adaptive Technologies for Elementary Instrumental Music Programs |
Poster Gallery Location: 08-Orchesterstudio (AW) |
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| 6:00pm - 7:00pm |
Break |
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| 7:00pm - 8:30pm |
Concert Location: Konzerthaus Wien - Mozart Saal |
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