Thoughts, links and tools for orchestra management strategies
Orchestras around the globe are looking for pathways in the very fast changing digital environment. Only some orchestras can make money from media business, at least only, if they do it on their own behalf.
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A good example is the Digital Concert Hall (DCH) of the Berlin Philharmonic. Find more information on this topic in this presentation, which has been hold at 4th International Orchestra Conference in Montreal on May 12, 2017:
From May 11 to 14 the international orchestra community is gathering in Montreal. 300 delegates from more than 40 countries will discuss cutting edge topics of the industry.
International Orchestra Conference
Created in 2008 by FIM (International Federation of Musicians), the International Orchestra Conference takes place every three years. The previous editions took place in Berlin (2008), Amsterdam (2011) and Oslo (2014). The aim of this dedicated conference is to give symphony orchestra or opera musicians down to the smallest ensemble orchestras the opportunity to share their experiences, concerns and initiatives on issues such as improving working conditions, consolidating employment, risk prevention where health and safety are concerned, developing audiences or public or private financial perpetuation.
A place of exchange for musicians and managers
Since its first edition in 2008, the International Orchestra Conference has invited administrators to take part in panels alongside musicians’ representatives. This open approach enables us to address issues of common interest together, without excluding controversy.
Financing methods, the impact of digital on the way orchestras operate and their relationship with the public, taking risks into account where occupational health is concerned, the involvement of musicians in elaborating artistic projects – these are but a few examples of the numerous issues which musicians and managers address. We need to take up issues and submit them for debate.
Orchestras: an essential cultural mission
In February 2014, musicians’ representatives meeting at the 3rd International Orchestra Conference stated: “Support for symphony and opera music, which are a precious and fragile part of our cultural heritage, is a prime responsibility of national, regional and local governments“. In what has become known as the Oslo Call, they also called on political decision makers “to honour this responsibility, by providing orchestras with the means that are necessary to pursue their missions and thus contribute to, and enhance artistic, social and economic life“.
This public service mission for orchestras reaffirmed here fulfils our societies’ need for culture, providing them with both artistic excellence and social bonding.
Find programme here.
The US based Wallace Foundation offers several arts management tools, which give access to a series of studies describing strategies of arts organizations that sought to build their audiences.
Find more information in the Knowledge Center. This is really useful stuff.
The leading classical music meeting and worldwide innovators’ network Classical:NEXT has opened its annual call for proposals. All classical music professionals from around the globe can submit their suggestions for showcase artists, project pitches and conference sessions to be hosted at Classical:NEXT in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 17-20 May 2017.
Classical:NEXT
As every year, Classical:NEXT is calling for outstanding artists, projects, future-oriented topics and interactive conference formats from all corners of the classical music world, whether that be early or contemporary, traditional or experimental. Proposals can be made in four categories: Showcases, nighttime Club Showcases, Conference Sessions of various, preferably interactive formats and Project Pitches. Classical:NEXT offers a dedicated online proposal site, to submit the proposals. All proposals will be considered by an independent jury of international experts.
Deadline to submit proposals is Friday, 30 September 2016.
Increase of Proposals Expected
Organisers Piranha Arts and de Doelen are expecting an increase in proposals due to the success and increased outreach of the meeting’s last edition. Classical:NEXT Director Jennifer Dautermann:
“As awareness of and participation in Classical:NEXT grows, we expect the already outstanding quality as well as substantial quantity of proposals to increase. Our jury have their hands full each year. We hope those hands will be filled to overflowing when this year’s Call for Proposals phase closes.”
1,200 international classical music professionals visited Classical:NEXT for its fifth edition in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, this May. One of the reasons for this success is the acclaimed and well-attended conference featuring interactive sessions, debates and project pitches as well as the Showcases, enabling new talent, new formats and unorthodox approaches to reach out to the international market.
Programme Selected from Proposals – This is How it Works!
To offer this exceptional programme, Classical:NEXT works with a proposal system “by the community, for the community”: Experts and everyday innovators from all sectors of the scene are invited to submit their proposals for the showcases and the conference, regardless of whether they have attended Classical:NEXT before or not, as Jennifer Dautermann explains: “We are looking for the outstandingly innovative, the bearers of ‘wow!’ moments, the eye-openers the and horizon-broadeners. We seek the best and brightest on the trail of innovation and excellence. Community – this is your call! The ball is in your court!”
From the hundreds of proposals submitted by 30 September 2016, an international jury of experts from all fields of the scene will assemble a handpicked selection of artists, speakers and projects – guaranteeing a neutral and balanced selection of only the best showcases and most pressing conference topics for Classical:NEXT 2017.
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Classical:NEXT is a professional forum for classical and art music, the next edition of which will take place in Rotterdam from 25 – 28 May 2016.
Classical:NEXT
It is planned as an annual event that aims to unite the international art music community. The event’s structure consists of three sections – Showcase, Conference and Expo: Showcases will present artists and productions in a series of short concerts or video screenings. The event is on its way to become one of the most exciting international platforms and marketplaces for the future of classical music.
Conferences will offer presentations, seminars, thinktanks, mentoring, matchmaking and other formats. The Expo is an exhibition place for companies and institutions and offers a meeting point for hundreds of delegates. Classical:NEXT is initiated by CLASS and produced by WOMEX.
Find more information here!
Did you know, that in Germany more people attend performances of publicly funded operas, theatres, orchestras and concert houses than games of the several German Soccer Leagues? Berlin Konzerthaus has been thinking about the parallel universums of a conductor and a soccer coach. Watch interesting impressions from the concert hall and the Berlin Olympic Stadium! Cheering audiences guaranteed.
This is the sound of Berlin – Konzerthaus and Hertha BSC.
