New EMC Board elected at the 6th European Forum on Music

24 May 2016 - Press release

From 19-22 May 2016, over 120 music lovers from more than 20 (European) countries met in Wroclaw to discuss topics revolving around the topic of “Musical Homelands: New Territories”. In the frame of the Forum the Annual Meeting of EMC members took place and a new Board was elected.
 
The results of the Board elections are:
Ian Smith (UK), Chair
Scottish Music Centre, Creative Scotland

Stefano Kunz (CH), Vice Chair
Swiss Music Council

Willem van Moort (NL), Treasurer
European Music Schools Union and Director of Bplus C, Leiden, The Netherlands

Gretchen Amussen (FR/US)
European Association of Conservatoires, Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMD)
     
Krzysztof Knittel (PL)
Polish Music Council, Composer, Professor at Fryderyk Chopin Music University

Victoria Liedbergius
European Choral Association – Europa Cantat, Ung I Kor (Norway)

Kostas Moschos
International Assoication of Music Information Centres (IAMIC), Greek Institute for Research on Music & Acoustics

The Board is elected for a period of 2 years; the current mandate goes until 2018.
 
Ian Smith, re-elected chairman of the EMC: “It is a great honour and privilege to be re-elected as chair of the EMC and I thank the EMC members for their trust. I look forward to working with you all over the next two years which will be important for the EMC in terms of its political work such as the potentially new funding programme for the music sector and the EMC’s own initiative the European Agenda for Music”.
 
More information on the European Forum on Music is available at: http://www.emc-imc.org/events/european-forum-on-music-2016/
 
The website will be continuously up-dated and you will find the presentations and filmed material soon online.
 
The Forum took place in the frame of Wroclaw 2016 European Capital of Culture and in partnership with the Polish Music Council, the National Forum of Music and the Rostrum+ project of the International Music Council (IMC).