Speakers
Ellen Loots
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ellen Loots is specialized in entrepreneurship in creative industries, and works as a lecturer and researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She is curious about new ways in which artists can be taught to develop careers, and about how artistic practices and creative processes can have an impact on society.
Saskia Westerduin
KASK & Conservatory Ghent
Saskia Westerduin is a founding Partner and Process Navigator of Apollo18, a Human-Centered Design Consultancy based in Ghent, Belgium. She is a teacher at University College, School of Arts Ghent. She is pecialized in Systemic Design Thinking & Participation processes.
Anna Ranczakowska
Estonian Academy of Music & Theatre
Currently working as a lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Anna Ranczakowska holds a BA degree in Physical Education, MA in Philosophy and a MA in Cultural Management. Ranczakowska is currently finishing a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology researching the problem of institutional identity of artistic HE in the light of neoliberal reforms, audit cultures and the construction of integrated “self” of academically trained musicians. Her recent interests include integrative philosophical psychotherapy and mental wellbeing of artists through the constant re-construction of self.
Dimitrios Marinos
Athens Conservatoire
Dimitrios Marinos graduated from the Athens Conservatoire with a piano diploma degree (and broadened his interests with a Master of Arts, Bachelor of Physics and Master in Business Administration). He holds the position of the General Manager of the Athens Conservatoire and he is appointed professor at the Piano Department. In addition, he is a member of the International Relations Coordinators Working Group of AEC which is a European cultural and educational network and the leading voice for higher music education in Europe.
Pawan Bhansing
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Pawan Bhansing is an organizational psychologist. His interests are the perceptions and orientations of managers and entrepreneurs in the cultural industries and subjects such as impact, identity, values, motivation, passion and inspiration. In 2013 he obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam – Amsterdam Business School Strategy and Marketing department. The question “What is success?” is central in his work.
Brandon Farnsworth
Zurich University of the Arts
Brandon Farnsworth works as an independent music curator based in Berlin, and as a research associate at the Zurich University of the Arts, where he also studied classical music performance and transdisciplinary studies. In 2020, he completed his doctoral degree in historical musicology at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden with the publication Curating Contemporary Music Festivals: A New Perspective on Music’s Mediation.
Frans Brouwer
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Frans Brouwer has worked as an organ builder, a scientific researcher, a director of an academy of music, a leader of international music festivals and European Capital of Culture Copenhagen (1996), a general manager of three music ensembles and as an expert for cultural subsidies at the European Commission. He obtained his doctorate with a cultural-historical study about the Nordic countries. Since 2007, he has mainly focused on lecturing on cultural entrepreneurship and cultural management at various universities and art schools in Europe, in particular at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Radboud University Nijmegen and the Latvian Academy of Culture in Riga. Frans is an amateur musician and lives in Amsterdam and Ljubljana
Marlies De Munck
University of Antwerp
Marlies De Munck is a philosopher of music. She teaches aesthetics and philosophy of music at the Antwerp University and has written essays on different aspects of music. At the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts she conducts research into the production and reception of artistic meaning.
Lieselot Le Comte
Ever since studying musicology at the university of Ghent, Le Comte developed a great interest in the relation between music and politics. She wrote on how music is used as ‘soft power’ in international relations, combining concepts from both political science and musicology.
Joris Blanckaert
KASK & Conservatory Ghent
Joris Blanckaert is a Belgian composer. Over the past decades he created numerous interdisciplinary works, often with live electronics and in situ performance. A constant in Blanckaert’s work is his use of the human voice, in solo works, in ensemble, and in the context of various operas and musical theatre compositions, and a connection with the societal context and a critical view of the world. His recent oeuvre does not shy away from interfering in the public debate on current topics, even outside of his music. Joris is a composition teacher and president of the music training programme of KASK & Conservatory Ghent, and coordinator of the advanced master programme for contemporary music.
Arjo Klamer
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Arjo Klamer is a professor of cultural economics EM. Klamer is specialized in cultural entrepreneurship and researches the different aspects of entrepreneurship such as values, quality evaluation and purpose-focused work. In the bootcamp he focuses on the entrepreneurial possibilities of young musicians.
Thijs Lijster
Thijs Lijster is assistant professor in the philosophy of art and culture at the University of Groningen, and postdoctoral researcher at the Culture Commons Quest Office of the University of Antwerp. He studied philosophy in Groningen and New York, and received his PhD at the University of Groningen in 2012. His publications include De grote vlucht inwaarts [The great leap inward] (2016), Benjamin and Adorno on Art and Art Criticism (2017), Kijken, proeven, denken [Seeing, tasting, thinking] (2019), and Verenigt U! [Unite!] (2019).