Status & Timeline

Significant milestones for the Global Conservatoire

  • 2020 - Building on long-standing cooperations

    Based on the long-standing cooperation between the four partner institutions, preliminary discussions regarding the establishment of Global Conservatoire began in 2018.

    In 2020, work began on a Memorandum of Understanding that would formalise this cooperation. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the four partner institutions in late 2020.

    Partner institutions

  • 2021 - GloCoDA

    In early 2021, Global Conservatoire received a 2-year grant for a special project – Global Conservatoire for a Digital Age (GloCoDA) – under the Erasmus+ Call for Strategic Partnerships.

    GloCoDA includes:

    • the development of an online course catalogue
    • a research paper focussing on developing a digital model for global conservatoire education
    • An open online teacher training course and web resource

    AEC (Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen) was invited to be a part of GloCoDA, and will contribute to the project through quality assurance and dissemination of the project findings.

     

    co-funded by the European Union

  • 2021 - GC courses start

    The pioneer GC course, Music and Words, was offered by Royal College of Music (London) in the fall semester of 2021.

    Since then, all four partner institutions have offered between 6-8 courses every semester.

  • 2021-2023 - Transnational meetings

    Global Conservatoire builds upon a large international network that is centered around the four partner institutions. As such, much of the daily administration takes place online.

    However, transnational meetings held twice a year allow for closer discussions, more in-depth discussions, as well as knowledge-sharing.

    Transnational meetings:

  • 2023 - EPARM in Copenhagen

    In March 2023, the results of the GloCoDA reseach project will be presented at the EPARM conference – European Platform for Artistic Research in Music.

    EPARM 2023 is organised by AEC (Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen) and hosted at The Royal Danish Academy of Music.

  • 2023 - Training and skills development

    Global Conservatoire continuously evaluates the quality and efficacy of courses taught. This is done through qualitative and quantitative studies, individual and group interviews, as well as larger formats such as faculty and student meetings.

    Based on these conclusions, teaching staff (previous, active, and future) will be invited to training and competency development in April 2022 in Vienna.

  • 2024-2025 - Low Latency collaboration development

    In the 2024–2025 academic year, the Global Conservatoire made real-time, cross- border musical collaboration a central pillar of its curriculum and artistic identity. Rather than treating low-latency teaching as a technological showcase or occasional experiment, GC institutions embraced it as a regular, structured, and pedagogically integrated practice.

    Over the course of the year, the five GC partners — CvA (Amsterdam), MSM (New York), RCM (London), MDW (Vienna), and RDAM (Copenhagen) — conducted more than 60 sessions, including:

    • Over 30 fully taught lessons, rehearsals and, workshops
    • Over 20 technical tests and connectivity experiments, including latency benchmarking and multi-point stress tests.

    These sessions were not incidental. They were planned, scheduled, and integrated into course structures, covering instruments such as piano, strings, percussion, improvisation, arranging, and composition. Students and faculty co-created music, learned together, and tested the boundaries of remote performance.

    Key Achievements

    • Over 50 sessions (lessons, rehearsals, public demos, tests)
    • Real-time collaboration via ELK and MVTP across five countries
    • Integrated into jazz, classical, improvisation, and cross-genre formats
    • First-ever GC public performance via low-latency guitar duo (London, AMS, Vienna)

    Impact

    • Created sustainable, weekly low-latency teaching between institutions
    • Supported ensemble rehearsals, improvisation, and 1-to-1 mentorship
    • Enabled cross-Atlantic collaboration and three-point ensemble experiments
    • Introduced students to future working models for hybrid, distributed music-making

    Next Steps

    • Equip all partners with 4K MVTP setups and Dante audio systems
    • Launch cross-institutional ensembles and artist residencies
    • Build dedicated low-latency rooms for teaching and creation
    • Initiate formal research into pedagogy, interaction, and infrastructure

    The project has moved beyond proof of concept. It now represents a working model for collaborative music education at an international level.

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