The 4th AEC Early Music Platform Meeting will take place at the Hochschule für Kunste Bremen (Germany), Spring 2012.

The AEC Early Music Platform

The AEC has launched a new platform, the AEC Early Music Platform. The very successful formula of the AEC Pop and Jazz Platform will now be applied to early music education.

The AEC Early Music Platform is open to all AEC institutions with a profound interest in early music education; i.e. institutions that are:

- providing programmes in early music,

- providing courses in early music as part of classical music programmes,

- planning to start programmes in early music in near future.

Meetings

Every year the AEC will organise an Early Music Platform Meeting in cooperation with a conservatoire. The meeting will be a place for networking and topics relevant for Early Music Departments will be presented and discussed.

• 1st Early Music Platform Meeting in Trossingen (Germany), 23-24 January 2009, in cooperation with the University of Music Trossingen. The program, presentations and the report of the meeting can be downloaded here.

• 2nd Early Music Platform Meeting took place at the Royal Conservatoire The Hague (The Netherlands), 22-23 January 2010. The program, presentations and the report of the meeting can be downloaded here. 
• 3rd Early Music Platform Meeting took place at the Haute École de Musique de Genève (Switzerland), 14-15 January 2011. The program, presentations and the report of the meeting can be downloaded here

Objectives and Aims

The overall objective of the platform is to support and promote early music education in European higher music education. Specific aims of the platform are:
- to exchange and disseminate general information about early music programmes of the participating institutions (study plans, curricula, special events, etc.),
- to support student and teacher exchanges (ECTS, preparatory visits, etc.),
- to support projects, seminars, intensive projects, etc, about academic issues of didactical nature (curriculum development, styles and genres, teaching and learning, etc.).

Working group

 
A working group has been set up to coordinate the activities of the platform.

• Peter Nelson (Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen)
• Greta Haenen (Hochschule für Künste Bremen)
• Francis Biggi (Haute École de Musique de Genève)
• Johannes Boer (Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag)
• Erik van Nevel (Lemmensinstituut, Leuven)
• Terrell Stone (Conservatorio di Musica "A. Pedrollo", Vicenza)
• Jeremy Llewellyn (Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel)
• Jari Puhakka (Sibelius Academy Helsinki)
• Yves Rechsteiner (CNSMD de Lyon)