Evert's World of Music

We - and I don't know exactly who these 'we' are - we worry about the state of music education in Dutch schools. We say, in ac...

One of the joys of teaching is that, in the preparation as well as in the classes themselves, one is constantly challenged to explain onesel...

I was at an international conference last week, about conservatoires. I was leading a workshop on audience engagement, or audience developme...

Another new word: perturbation. Of course I knew it existed. But one doesn't hear it very often. I was in a small meeting in which o...

I am learning new words every day. Recently I stumbled over he word 'neuromythology'. It is a word I, retrospectively, had been lo...

I like presenting research in front of groups of people. Whether it is a guest lecture at a university, a presentation at a conference, a ta...

I went to see the gipsy. Or: I went to hear a Nobel prize winner sing. When I announced it on Facebook, one of my FB-friends asked me which ...