Creative Musician European Master

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The objective is to create an innovative joint European Master for the Creative Musician for interdisciplinary creative performer-composers in a changing society. There is no longer dispute that musicians need myriad capabilities to build and sustain a career. It can take multiple attempts to become established in music, these can include enforced entrepreneurship, multiple roles in interdisciplinary contexts, finding a niche and the need to retain and refine technical skills. HEI’s and policy makers have an ethical responsibility to understand future lives in music and to equip students to be able to shape these including their development as agents of social change and agentic learners. RCA in Antwerp (Belgium), ESMAE in Porto (Portugal) and LMTA in Vilnius (Lithuania) offer solid competences in the academic areas to be addressed with an objective balanced mix of compatibility and complementarity in their specializations and approaches. This project builds on previous international activities and expertise trying to tackle the above-mentioned challenges. This project is the next step forward to create a graduate profile suitable to the current requirements in the field of contemporary music. It addresses a significant gap in the current European graduate education offerings with a student-centered open curriculum of 120 ects, open to composers, performers, educators and researchers as creative artists, working with sound, exploring different disciplines and using (new) media, instruments and sound skills as possible resources. It will foster the set-up of creative projects across styles and genres, searching for new formats through interdisciplinary thinking and working including partnerships with the professional field and local socio-cultural organizations, including more vulnerable or disadvantaged audiences. The use of technology and multi-media will be embedded to respond to the new scenario of virtual performances brought about by the recent pandemic.