Detailled Information about IMC 4 th World Forum on Music in Tallinn (doc)
The 4th IMC World Forum on Music and 34th IMC General Assembly successfully concluded
There is a lot of knowledge and experience to share when motivated individuals and representatives of music organisations meet to discuss music and social change, which is precisely what happened at the 4th IMC World Forum on Music from 26th September to the 1st of October. Tallinn (Estonia), the European cultural capital 2011, offered the perfect setting for this international conference, which gathered nearly 300 music actors from some 50 countries all over the world.
The plenary sessions, breakouts, workshops, project presentations and other discussions of the Forum presented an impressive variety of different theoretical and practical approaches to the topics concerning music and social change conveyed by participants and speakers. Joe Lamond demonstrated how music education and music industries should go hand in hand. Accompanied by excellent concerts, the forum also offered a good opportunity for networking that was positively taken up by all participants. The burgeoning and warm atmosphere of this conference culminated in a further highlight when Youssou N’Dour addressed the conference with a keynote speech dedicated to the development of music work in Africa and the need to raise awareness of its economic power and cultural potential for the creative industries.
More information will be soon available at: www.worldforumonmusic.org
Alongside the Forum, the new IMC Executive Board was elected on 1st of October in the setting of the 34th IMC General Assembly.
The new IMC Executive Board comprises :
President
Frans de Ruiter (Netherlands)
Director of the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University
Vice-Presidents
Gary Ingle (USA), Executive Vice-President
President, US National Music Council
Executive Director, Music Teachers National Association
Liane Hentschke (Brazil)
Past President, International Society for Music Education
Head of International Affairs, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre
Hisham Sharaf (Iraq)
Manager of the Arab Academy of Music (Arab League)
Manager of Amman Symphony Orchestra
Treasurer
Sonja Greiner (Germany)
Secretary General, European Choral Association – Europa Cantat
Members
María del Carmen Gil (Puerto Rico)
Chancellor of the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music
President of the Latin American Association of Conservatories and Music Schools (ALCEM)
Timo Klemettinen (Finland)
President, Finnish Music Council
Managing Director, Association of Finnish Music Schools
Gary McPherson (Australia)
Director of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
Past President, International Society for Music Education
Henrik Melius (Sweden)
Founder and Chairman, Spiritus Mundi
Gervais Hugues Ondaye (Republic of Congo)
Chairman of the National Music Council of the Republic of Congo
Vice President of the African Music Council
Founder and Director of the Feux de Brazza festival
The International Music Council (IMC) is a membership organisation created in 1949 by the Director General of UNESCO as the advisory body to the agency on musical matters. It is based at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris and functions as an independent international NGO maintaining a formal associate relationship with UNESCO. Over the past 60 years, IMC has developed as a world expert organisation, a forum for exchange and reflection and an observatory in the field of music. Mandated to promote all types of music, IMC is an organisation positioned to speak to governments, institutions and regions; it works through and for its members internationally to support the development and the promotion of diverse music and the role of musicians in the context of social, cultural and economic development.
Information:
International Music Council
Silja Fischer, Secretary General
Maison de l'UNESCO, 1 rue Miollis
75732 Paris cedex 15, France
Tel: +33 1 45 68 48 50 Fax: +33 1 45 68 48 66
Email: info@imc-cim.org Website: www.imc-cim.org