News | Resonances: The meeting of cultures in music education

On 25 February 2025, RESONANCES project team met in Geneva, Switzerland, for the seminar "Resonances: The meeting of cultures in music education", which provided an opportunity to present to the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève community and external audience the research project "The resonances of intercultural exchanges between students on their teaching practices and methods", which has Alix Didier Sarrouy as scientific coordinator and Maria Peres as research assistant, both researchers at INET-md.

The meeting took place at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève (HEM), the project's host institution, and featured two excellent guests: ethnomusicologist Talia Bachir-Loopuyt, head of the ethnomusicology department at HEM, and Angela Mancipe, musician, researcher and assistant for the coordination of teaching and the Centre for Cultures at HEM.

Talia Bachir-Loopuyt shared her thoughts on interculturality in the context of world music festivals and music education. Angela Mancipe shared her experience as an oboist and singer in multicultural music contexts, and developed a parallel between the adaptability of oboe reeds (preparation according to temperature, humidity, height...) and the adaptability of the musician to the cultures in which they develop.

The audience included HEM students, exchange students from Bahia and curious outsiders, who took part in the final discussion. This seminar contributed to deepening the analysis of music teaching and pedagogy from the perspective of interculturality as a theoretical field.

Photograph by Cláudia Rizo. In the picture, from left to right, are Ricardo Castro, Talia Bachir-Loopuyt, Angela Mancipe, Maria Peres and Alix Sarrouy.