Musical
Bounce Back
Promoting the role of women in music
and connecting for a new pedagogy
From April 2022 to June 2024, led by PIANO AND CO, twenty-five students and about fifteen professors coming from Europe (Cyprus, France, Greece and Portugal) and Armenia have worked on the same question : How can we make female composers more visible?
Three proposals have emerged :
> Creating a pedagogical kit intended for conservatories, universities and music schools with tools to raise awareness,
> Discovery, rediscovery, dissemination of women musical heritage, and creation of new works,
> Production of a documentary tracing the project development and following three generations of women musicians.
On this website, you will be able to learn more about the Musical Bounce Back project. This platform provides some awareness tools and a working methodology.
Musical Workshops
A series of workshops was held in different countries with the aim of co-constructing the educational kit with concerts, roundtables, exhibitions…
Workshop 1 - Yerevan (Armenia)
October 16 to 22, 2022
Yerevan National Conservatory Komitas teams welcomed all the 30 european musicians and teachers. Each country was able to present, in concert, works by its own women composers. A roundtable discussion with a presentation of Armenian women composers and debates took place.
Workshop 2 - Braga (Portugal)
March 20 to 25, 2023
Casa do Professor and Universidade do Minho hosted the second MBB workshop. Music of Silence's picture exhibition around Portuguese women composers was inaugurated. Conferences were held : one on the painter Vieira da Silva, and a second on how digital tools can impact gender equality.
First meeting and rehearsal with the composer Eve Risser, who wrote a piece for the ensemble of European musicians.
Workshop 3 - Athens (Greece)
October 16 to 21, 2023
The participants had the occasion to meet Greek conductor Zoé Zeniodi who has retraced important steps in her career, artistic life and professional and personal life. They also had the opportunity to meet composer Esthir Lemi. Conferences were organized around female film composers and electroacoustic female composers. On the occasion of this workshop, an exhibition on the history of Greek female composers was also displayed. Above all, an evening was dedicated to Greek female composers.
Workshop 4 - Marseille (France)
April 8 to 13, 2024
The closing of the MBB project took place at the Pierre Barbizet Conservatory in Marseille. During a week, participants and all the audience had been able to attend roundtables, film projections… The MBB orchestra presented two world premieres to a large audience, with the Eve Risser’s and Esthir Lemir’s works. It was also the occasion for the first presentation of the exhibition "Women and Music: Rewriting a New History”.
AN ERASMUS+ PROJECT
Musical Bounce Back is a European project about women’s visibility, on gender equality in music supported by Erasmus + Agency - Key Action 2: Cooperation partnerships in adult education, implemented by 6 partners from 5 countries.
3 Intellectual outputs are expected: