17 Ottobre 2025_Music Education in Non-Formal Settings: Community Music with Children and Youth
Music Education in Non-Formal Settings: Community Music with Children and Youth
17 October 2025
Faculty of Education, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Brixen/Bressanone
9:00–9:15 Welcome and introduction
9:15–10:45 Session I
Observation as a tool for research, teaching, and training in non-formal learning and non-formal
settings in music education
Anna Rita Addessi
White voice choirs in non-formal education: Pedagogical Practices, children’s musical repertoire,
and applied research
Sara Navarro Lalanda
Building community with children through music-making: An inclusive music education project in
South Tyrol
Johann van der Sandt, Carlo Nardi & Udo Dengel
> 10:45–11:15 Coffee break I
11:15–12:30 Session II
Fostering cultural experiences and students’ participation in developing innovative concepts of
concerts for pupils
Gerhard Sammer
Education to creativity: How much do we need a non-formal setting?
Alessandro Bratus & Francesca Cireddu
> 12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Session III
Community music as an antidote to the social pathogen of division and violence
Deborah Parker & Henry Brown
Song in formal, non-formal, and informal learning: Bridge over L2 troubled waters
Eleonora Betti
‘Gemeinsam musizieren’: Music and inclusion in migrant-dense schools – A case study of the
Grundschule Franzensfeste, South Tyrol
Andrea Frei
> 15:00–15:30 Coffee break II15:30-16:30 Session IV
Considering cultural democracy and peer-learning within intercultural music-spaces
Sarah-Jane Gibson
‘Kanak for life’: The question of cultural appropriation in music education and performance in the
context of Turkish-German bilingualism
Sezgin Inceel
16:30–17:00 Panel
Popular music education in Italy by IASPM Italia
Filippo Arri, Alessandro Bratus, Mattia Merlini, Carlo Nardi, Anna Scalfaro
17:00–18:00 Roundtable
Making, teaching, studying, and learning non-formal music making with children and youth
Anna Rita Addessi, Filippo Arri, Eleonora Betti, Alessandro Bratus, Henry Brown, Francesca Cireddu,
Udo Dengel, Andrea Frei, Sezgin Inceel, Sara Navarro Lalanda, Mattia Merlini, Carlo Nardi, Deborah
Parker, Gerhard Sammer, Johann van der Sandt
Published on: October 02 2025
