Genesis of Musicum20

In October of 2004, the Perspectives of Music in the 21st Century: Music Schools between Tradition and Renovation Symposium was held at Nagoya University of the Arts, Japan.

 

Amongst the presenters at the Symposium were:

 

Professor Greg Whateley – Sydney

Professor Yutaka Nakagawa - Nagoya

Professeur Michael Wladkowski – Paris

 

Greg Whateley presented a paper Navigating New and Innovative Directions in Global Music Education written and developed with the late Dr Peter Calvo, Founder of the Australian Institute of Music. 

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In 2012, Philosopher Yutaka Nakagawa made contact with Greg Whateley. He suggested, after lengthy consideration (of some 8 years), that we should rekindle the friendship and thus Musicum20 was born.

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Vision

MUSICUM20 is an international co-operative venture that brings together a range of adjunct personnel from a range of institutions.

 

Goals

The ultimate goal is to have 20 partners worldwide that work co-operatively at a number of levels.

 

These partners are not to be in direct competition, so as to achieve a relationship and dialogue of complete trust and transparency.

 

It is person based (rather than institution) which provides maximum portability and speed and provides the necessary champions for a project of this kind to fly and survive – and indeed continue if individuals move from Institution to Institution. 

 

Multiple Layers

•Annual International Symposium

•International exchange and visits

•An eJournal and or communiqué

•Cross-institutional student enrolments

•Benchmarking

•Moderation

•Common Post Graduate award