Significant music theory conference is held at Liszt Academy

Created and chaired by Salvatore Gioveni, the HarMA Seminar Event project’s first edition and “world premiere” has been held at the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles on April 25–27, 2018. The second edition takes place at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest on April 28–30, 2021. The Seminar hosts more than 100 participants from different Higher Music Education Institutions around the world. Due to the COVID-crisis, the programme has been adapted with live sessions and new topics related to the digital teaching practices. This Seminar will be organized around 16 topic-specific talks, 3 training sessions and 1 special interest group related to the innovative teaching practices, new technologies, digitalization and European projects. Following the success of the first edition, it has undoubtedly become an essential meeting for HMEI’s music theory faculties. Always seeking perfection, the HarMA Seminar seeks to foster the international collaboration and to give a single-place meeting dedicated to these faculties. Helping them to share their pedagogical experiences and learning methods, the second edition will focus on promoting and increasing the internationalization, attractiveness, equal access and modernization of the Music Theory courses in HMEI’s. By bringing together the faculties, the HarMA Seminar will continue to implement the Europeanization strategy of the mobility projects and highlight the music theory courses often neglected by the HMEI’s. This allows to develop and modernize the curricula and especially the development of new strategic partnerships within our exchange programs. Strengthened by its exclusive topics and the HarMA european e-survey, Salvatore Gioveni created the strategic partnerships project HarMA+, supported and co-financed by the KA 203 Erasmus+ Programme leaded by the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles. Surrounded by HMEI’s partners (Gdansk, Leipzig, Tallinn, Budapest and AEC), the project will develop several intellectual outputs in Music Theory released in a world premier digital platform: European bibliography, European repository courses, multilingual glossary and a European course management system. The HarMA Seminar is supported by the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, the Erasmus+ Program, the Belgian branch of the AEF-Europe, the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles de Belgique et de Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI), the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles.