Echo 2024: classical music sector day
What does listening mean today? Echo 2024 places listening at the centre, in times when attention is increasingly scarce and the supply constantly increasing. The annual classical music sector day highlights various perspectives on listening.
Theme: unheard, perspectives on listening
How can we explore and present classical music in new ways, whether we are in a traditional concert hall, alternative venues, or at home? To what extent do contextual programs and introductions support understanding of the classical repertoire? What are the new forms of presentation? Are we still listening to the radio or are we solely streaming? How do classical festivals or concert halls engage with their audiences?
“If classical music is serious about wanting change, it needs to reclaim its innate and vital sense of adventure. I mean adventurous listening as well as adventurous creating. The kind of listening that makes us vulnerable, that reawakens us…”
Kate Molleson, Sound Within Sound – Opening Our Ears to The Twentieth Century
PROGRAMME
13:30 ― reception
14:00 ― welcome by Joost Fonteyne & Hendrik Storme
14:05 ― State of the Youth by Mostafa Taleb
14:30 ― musical intervention ‘Handsfree’ by Anna Meredith
15:00 ― cofee / break
15:30 ― paneldiscussion (choice of three parallel sessions):
- Ducth Listening Guide: on the sense and nonsense of context in classical music (Joost Fonteyne – Pieter Bergé -Elisabeth De Loore)
- Dutch Beanbags and headphones: on new forms of presentation and dealing with audiences, relaxed performances (Veerle Spronck – (tbc) – moderator: Esther De Soomer)
- English Who’s the conductor? On hierarchy and organisational structures in ensembles and orchestras (Nikola Djurica – Caroline Peeters and Anouk Sturtewagen – Aglaja Thiessen – moderator: Katherina Lindekens)
16:20 ― short break
16:50 ― paneldiscussion (choice of three parallel sessions):
- Dutch Bandwith: On the role of radio and streaming media (Vincent Goris – Bregje Van Deun – Steven Maes – moderator: Ward Bosmans)
- Dutch ‘The illusion of the neutral listener: How biology and culture mould our musical listening’ – lecture by Tomas Serrien
- English Listening repertoire (Hendrik Storme – Shane Burmania – Birgit Ellinghaus – Isaac Jean-Francois – moderator: Hendrik Storme)
18:00 ― State of the Union by Kate Molleson
18:30 ― networking reception
19:15 ― introduction to the concert Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
20:00 ― Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Tõnu Kaljuste
Echo?
Echo 2024 kicks off, as usual, with two keynotes. The State of the Union will be delivered by British journalist and broadcaster (including BBC Radio 3) Kate Molleson. The State of the Youth keynote will be presented by Mostafa Taleb, a Brussels-based Kamancheh player and composer with Iranian roots, who merges Western and Persian classical music in his practice.
Register
Join us to think, discuss and listen on Friday 22 March, at DE SINGEL.
