IAMIC Conference 2008

Monday, 8 September to Saturday, 13 September 2008 Cardiff, Wales

Timetable as at 15 July 2008

MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER VENUE: Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) TIME ACTIVITY 13.00-14.00 Tesco Stage Performance Philip Heyman and Simon Phillippo (viola and piano) (Informal Concert 1) 14.00-16.00 Registration; Tour of Wales Millennium Centre Vale of Glamorgan Festival: Sandra Mol and Jeroen van Veen (piano duo) play Canto ostinato - Simeon ten Holt (world premiere) (Informal Concert 2) IAMIC Board Meeting (Seligman Room) IAMIC Committee Meetings (Seligman ante room) 19.00 Informal welcome dinner (not included in conference package)

TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER CLOSED SESSIONS VENUE: WMC/Seligman Room TIME ACTIVITY 09.15-10.45 IAMIC General Assembly: Business Session 1 10.45-11.15 Coffee 11.15-12.45 IAMIC General Assembly: Business Session 2 13.00-14.00 Lunch and Tesco Stage performance by Live Music Now! Cymru (Informal Concert 3) 14.00-16.00 IAMIC General Assembly: Business Session 3 IAMIC Strategic Plan. Speaker: Svein Bjørkås (Norway) on behalf of IAMIC Board, followed by discussion. Chair: Ol’ga Smetánova (Slovakia) 16.00-16.30 Coffee 16.30-17.30 Annual Conference Session 1 Change Management in Organisations: a survival guide Speaker: Andrew Conlan-Trant, Aspect One Consultants (Ireland); followed by panel discussion. Chair: Eve O’Kelly (Ireland). 18.00-19.30 Reception: Bar One – Wales Millennium Centre

WEDNESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER CLOSED SESSIONS VENUE: St Fagans Museum of Welsh Life TIME ACTIVITY 09.15 Coach pick-up at hotel 10.00-11.00 Annual Conference Session 2 “In these stones horizons sing” - Introduction to Music in Wales. Speaker: Dr Lyn Davies. Chair: Keith Griffin (Wales) 11.00-11.30 Coffee 11.30-12.15 Annual Conference Session 3 Partnerships among MICs: Ideas and case studies. Speaker: Mietek Kominek (Poland). 12.15-13.00 Annual conference Session 4 Successes and Failures: MIC case studies followed by discussion. 13.00-14.00 Lunch and performance by Live Music Now! Cymru(Informal Concert 4) 14.00-15.00 Annual Conference Session 5 The Composer’s ToolBox: practical guidelines for self-promotion. Speaker: John Hardy, composer (Wales). http://www.johnhardymusic.net/ 15.00-15.30 Coffee 15.30-17.00 Committee meetings 17.15 Coach pick-up to return to hotel or Plymouth Arms, St Fagan’s village 19.30 Coach pick-up from St Fagan’s village 18.00 Free evening; various options to be advised.

THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER OPEN SESSIONS VENUE: WMC/Seligman Room TIME ACTIVITY 09.15-10.45 Annual Conference Session 6 Technology and the Future: the Crystal Ball. Speaker: Nick Poole, CEO, The Collections Trust UK. http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/ 10.45-11.15 Coffee 11.15-12.45 Annual Conference Session 7 What can Web 2.0 offer to the IAMIC Community? Speaker: Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus at UKOLN. http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ 13.00-14.00 Lunch and Tesco Stage Performance by Live Music Now! Cymru (Informal Concert 5) 14.00-14.30 Annual Conference Session 8 Promoting the Archive: Ty Cerdd music education project 14.30-15.30 Annual conference Session 9 Thinking Outside the Box: promoting jazz and other genres. Speaker: Roger Spence, Assembly Direct (Scotland) 15.30-16.00 Coffee 16.00-17.30 Annual Conference Session 10 Promoting Contemporary Music in Education. Speakers: Philip Flood, Head of LSO Discovery, London Symphony Orchestra http://lso.co.uk/aboutlsodiscovery Hilary Boulding, Principal, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and former Head of Music, Arts Council England http://tinyurl.com/4fhbbm Chair: Scilla Askew (New Zealand) 18.30 Coach pick-up for Llandaff Cathedral 19.30  Formal Concert 1 Vale of Glamorgan Festival concert with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with David Cowley () and Robert Plane (). Three Dances – Henryk Gorecki, Oboe Concerto – Guto Puw, Agricolas – Piers Hellawell (world premiere), Quasi una sinfonietta – Pawel Szymanski 21.45 Coach pick-up for return to hotel (approx)

FRIDAY 12 SEPTEMBER OPEN SESSIONS VENUE: WMC/Seligman Room TIME ACTIVITY 09.15-10.45 Annual Conference Session 11 Benchmarking our work: online data collection. Speaker: Roel Vanhoeck (Flanders) 10.45-11.15 Coffee 11.15-12.45 Annual Conference Session 12 Music Outside the Concert Hall. Speaker: Ilmari Mäenpää, E-Concerthouse.com (Finland) http://www.e-concerthouse.com/ 13.00-14.00 Lunch; Tesco Stage performance by Live Music Now! Cymru (Informal Concert 6) 14.00-15.30 Annual Conference Session 13 The Politics of Music: new trends in international cultural policy. Speaker: to be confirmed, followed by panel discussion. 15.30-16.00 Coffee 16.00-17.00 Visit to Touch Trust and Ty Cerdd recording studio (WMC) 18.00 Pick-up by boat (or coach if preferred)from WMC to Barrage in Cardiff Bay, then by coach to: 19.00 Formal Concert 2: IAMIC Concert, St Augustine’s Church, Penarth. Swansea Bach and Cantemus Chamber Choir Wales. 20.30 Pick-up by Coach to La Marina for IAMIC Dinner 00.00 Coach back from restaurant to hotel

SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER CLOSED SESSIONS VENUE: WMC/Seligman Room TIME ACTIVITY 09.30-11.00 IAMIC General Assembly: Business session 4 11.00-11.30 Coffee 11.30-13.00 IAMIC General Assembly: Business session 5 13.00-14.00 Lunch and Goodbyes!