Restructuring of the Basel university institutes
Jazz receives its own university institute in Basel. With its foundation, the structure and name will be changed: the former FHNW School of Music will now be called the FHNW School of Music.
The FHNW School of Music now consists of three institutes: School of Music|Classical Music (previously School of Music), School of Music|Jazz and School of Music|Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The establishment of the institutes is intended to give jazz a more distinct profile in terms of content and funding, as well as its own development opportunities in teaching and research.
At the end of November/beginning of December, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis is organizing a symposium on early music between historical sources and the aesthetic present under the title "Darf man das?" ("Is it allowed?") and is exploring the core question of its own work: the question of the conventions of historical performance practice in the context of contemporary culture.
At the beginning of September, a music education symposium will ask how inspired music lessons can succeed and in March, the first results of the Swiss National Science Foundation SNSF project of the same name will be presented at the symposium "Music and Migration" at the Hochschule für Musik, Klassik.
