30th
ISME
World Conference on Music Education, Thessaloniki 2012
Conference
Theme: «Music Paedeia: From Ancient Greek Philosophers
Toward Global Music Communities»
Welcome to Thessaloniki 2012!!!
Dear
friends and colleagues from all over the world!
It is a great pleasure, a privilege, an honour, as well
as a huge challenge for me to greet you from the position
of the Chair of the next ISME World Conference!
On behalf of the Conference Organizing Group (COG) and the
host organizer the Greek Society for Music Education (G.S.M.E.),
I would like to extend my warmest invitation to all of you
to the 30th ISME World Conference that take place in Thessaloniki,
Greece, July 15-20, 2012.
As our Chinese colleagues very well used the metaphor earlier,
we will now transfer -through the paths of the silk road-
the flame of the Music Education Olympics back to Greece!
Greece is an ancient civilization with thousands of years
of music history. We have a long tradition of sharing and
exchanging our music and culture with different nations.
The city of Thessaloniki, in which the 30th ISME World Conference
will be held, is the capital city of northern Greece. Archeological
findings show that people lived in the area since the beginning
of the 3rd millennium BC. So, Thessaloniki was built on
the remains of an older city. It was founded in 316 BC by
Kassandros, who gave to the city the name of his wife Thessaloniki,
the sister of Alexander the Great and has been a crossroads
of cultures and civilizations since then.
The city’s atmosphere is a fusion of Greek, Balkan and Southeastern
European influences that co-exist harmoniously, creating
a multicultural and cosmopolitan environment, where visitors
from all over the world feel comfortable and welcome.
Our
Conference Theme: «Music Paedeia: From Ancient Greek Philosophers
Toward Global Music Communities», links today with Ancient
Greece and will give a great opportunity to everyone to
be expressed in their own, distinctive way, by also connecting
the past with the present and the future.
The host and local organizer of the 2012 ISME World Conference,
the Greek Society for Music Education, was founded in March
1997. It is a non-profit, scientific organization, with
the main purpose of promoting music education and of developing
it further as a field of scientific enquiry. G.S.M.E. collaborates
with other societies that work on the same purpose in Europe
and in the other continents and has been closely working
with ISME from the beginnings as an ISME National Affiliated
Organization since 1998. Our Society organizes workshops,
seminars, lectures and conferences and publishes books,
journals, and newsletters.
The Thessaloniki Concert Hall where the conference will
take place, with its two buildings, is the ideal venue for
an ISME Conference. It is one of the most advanced concert
venues in Europe and a Convention and Congress centre, with
facilities that can host large international conventions,
cultural and scientific events as well as exhibitions. GSME
have had a fantastic collaboration with the Thessaloniki
Concert Hall while organizing there the 5th G.S.M.E. Conference
in 2007.
Most of the members of the 2012 Conference Organizing Group
have participated in organizing many different G.S.M.E.
events: seminars, concerts, workshops and conferences and
constitute an experienced, hard-working team of organizers.
I have been working with this team for years and I can promise
that we will all give our best selves in organizing this
huge event too!
Organizing the 30th ISME World Conference is one more of
the ways that GSME is serving the vision of supporting quality
music education for all. It is an honourable and glorious
mission and we wish also to give to everyone the opportunity
and any possible help to explore the Greek culture and music.
Furthermore, there are two more reasons to celebrate in
2012 together with the 30th ISME World Conference!
2012 is the year that the city of Thessaloniki will celebrate
the 100th Anniversary from its Liberation!
2012 is also the year that G.S.M.E. will celebrate its 15th
Anniversary!
Once more, we are honoured to host the 30th ISME World Conference
and ready to welcome you with renowned Greek hospitality
in a journey for all, and a conference to remember!
Welcome
to 2012 ISME Thessaloniki Conference
Welcome to Greece, the country that gave birth to great
philosophers, to democracy and of course, to the Olympic
Games!
Dr
Polyvios Androutsos
Chair, ISME 2012
Conference Organizing Group
A journey for all, a conference to remember...
Greek
keynote speaker will be Nikos Kypourgos
Born
in Athens in 1952, Nikos Kypourgos pursued studies
in music theory and contemporary music techniques
under the supervision of Yannis Papaioannou while
simultaneously studying Law and Political Science
at the University of Athens. He continued his
studies at the Conservatoire de Paris on a scholarship
granted by the Onassis Foundation, where he attended
the classes of Max Deutsch, Iannis Xenakis, and
other renowned composers. His studies also included
Ethnomusicology and Music Education.
Nikos
Kypourgos has composed vocal music (Knots, a choral
"game" for 16 voices, was awarded the
first prize at the International Rostrum of Composers
organized by UNESCO in 1979), orchestral music,
chamber music, ballet music, musicals and songs.
For
the past twenty years, Nikos Kypourgos has been
occupied with incidental music for the theatre
(having composed music for many different theatrical
genres ranging from ancient Greek drama to contemporary
theatre) as well as music for films (more than
fifty films in Greece, France, United Kingdom,
Germany, Poland, Turkey, USA, Canada). In both
fields he has received numerous awards in Greece
and abroad. Most of Kypourgos´ work is available
on CD. Many of his works were first performed
in France, Italy, England, Spain, the United States
and Belarus, (for full discography and filmography:
www.nikoskypourgos.com).
For
many years he has been actively involved in the
field of Music Education, being one of the pioneers
in the formation of a modern Greek music pedagogical
system.
His diverse teaching experience includes teaching
music theory and composition at renowned Conservatories
as well as classes of Music Pedagogy at the Department
of Education of the University of Athens.
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