Unlocking creativity: Composing music with children and teenagers

Unlocking creativity: Composing music with children and teenagers

This lecture is aimed at composers and music educators and attempts to explore cases where children are directly involved in the compositional process. How is it when you compose with children/teenagers? Are there different methods for it? How can the different steps of this process (conscious listening, exploration of sounds, improvisation, musical notation) be structured and how could musical ideas of children with little or no musical education be guided and brought to light?

The composer and music educator Vasiliki Kourti Papamoustou will present excerpts from her works and talk about her experiences on composing with children. Participants will have the opportunity to exchange ideas and then develop, notate and perform their own compositions. www.vaniakourti.com

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