REMA - Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne

CONFERENCE ANCONA 24-26 JUIN SUR LA PROGRAMMATION ARTISTIQUE

PRESENTATION OF THE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS CONFERENCE : ARTISTIC PROGRAMMING Moderator : Mister Guido Barbieri- Radio 3

Conference in English and in French – Simultaneous translation is provided

Jan Van den Bossche studied choral conducting at the Royal Conservatoire in Ghent. He specialized in early music in Vienna, where he sang with the Arnold Schönberg Choir. In 2000 he joined the Utrecht-based Early Music Organisation and was appointed director in 2003. In 2009 he left Utrecht and became artistic director of the Festival de Música Antiga in Barcelona. From 2006 until 2008 he was chairman of the European Early Music Network (REMA.) Since 2007 he has staged several music theatre productions.
Jan Van den Bossche will talk about the Idea of Identity while programming for a festival. How to create an identity ? What is a festivals’ identity ? – is this a musical, political or perhaps a national concern ?

Tomas Bisschop (°1975) studied Musicology at the ‘Katholieke Universiteit Leuven’ and completed the music teacher training at the ‘Hogeschool Gent’. After his studies he started working as production leader for the ‘Flanders Symphony Orchestra’. After that Tomas Bisschop became manager of chamber choir ‘Ex Tempore (Florian Heyerick)’. At the same time he started together with Hendrik Storme the alternative management agency C-Zuur, which gave artistic and financial advice to specialized ensembles and orchestras such as Capriccio Stravagante of Skip Sempé, Concerto Copenhagen and La Folata. Out of this organization, in 2005, baroque orchestra B’Rock was founded, which he came to co-manage financially and artistically. In 2007 he was appointed together with Hendrik Storme as head of the ‘Festival van Vlaanderen Brugge (MAfestival)’. In a short period of time he managed to change the course of this festival to become innovating and trendsetting for the performance of early music. Since 2009 the organization is lead by Tomas Bisschop alone.
Tomas Bisshop will talk about the extension of the repertoire or the establishment of niches. This key note will highly focus on the Early music, how to define it ? It will also discuss the possibilities to go beyond the traditional repertoires.

Emmanuel HONDRÉ
Director of the production of concerts
Cité de la musique - Salle Pleyel
Doctor in musicology and he is holder of the four first prizes from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse of Paris (History of music, esthetics, musicology, pedagogy of the flute), Emmanuel Hondré first worked as a professor before he integrated the Cité de la musique, first as a Musical Editor (1997) afterwards he was in charge of the Service des activités culturelles of the Musée de la musique (2002) and then he became Director of the production of concerts (2004).
He elaborates next to Laurent Bayle the musical seasons for the Cité de la musique and for the Salle Pleyel.
Emmanuel Hondré will prepare a keynote speech on the artistic programming based on topics. How to choose the topics and their subdivisions ? How do you illustrate these topics and how do you open up the collaborations with other institutions and how to develop the expansions of your programming ? Emmanuel Hondré will also give us his vision of the role of the artistic director.

Marco Mencoboni : harpsichordist and organist, was born in 1961 in Macerata. He studied with Umberto Pineschi, Ton Koopman, Jesper Christensen and Gustav Leonhardt and has dedicated many years to the rediscovery and performance of ancient musical repertoire of northern Italy. Thanks to this tireless dedication many jewels of a forgotten music have been brought back to life. Today, as soloist and director of the Cantar Lontano, he is in demand by many important festivals internationally. He is the artistic director of the festival Cantar Lontano Festival, happening every year in Ancona, in the Marches, Thanks to his incessant work on on the Cantar Lontanio tecnique, this incredible forgotten praxis using the singers in the space, not views, to the imitation of many choruses, in now becoming known all around the world.
Marco Mencoboni will give us his reflexion on the strategy of artistic choices : audience strategies - mixtures of safe and risky proposition. This reflexion will also include some perspectives about audiences.

MODERATOR : GUIDO BARBIERI
Guido Barbieri, music critic on the ‘La Repubblica’ newspaper, is a conductor and a consultant for Radio 3.
He teaches music history in the conservatory of Trapani. Together with Oscar Pizzo he founded in 1996 the ‘Contemporanea’ magazine promoted by Rome’s Auditorium. In 2009 he also created, together with Alessio Allegrini, the Human Right Orchestra. Author of several critical essays and texts for musical theatre, he has recently published the essay ‘Le afasie del cuore’ in the ‘I portatori del tempo’ book, edited by Achille Bonito Oliva