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UDINE WILL BE THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MUSIC EDUCATION FROM 17 TO 22 JULY 2023
Are you an animator and musician who wants to pass on your passion?
Are you a music teacher who wants to broaden your field of experience and reflection?
The 39th Willems® Congress opens its doors to you in Udine / Italy, for 5 days of meetings, discoveries and active and artistic teaching practices.
OPENING OF THE CONGRESS
MONDAY 17 JULY
WELCOME
from 3pm to 5.30pm
CONCERT
from 6pm to 7pm
THE 39° CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL WILLEMS®
17>22 JUILLET 2023 – UDINE / ITALY
The 39th International Congress of the FIW will take place in Udine, in the Italian Friuli, from 17 to 22 July 2023, in the “Jacopo Tomadini” Music Conservatory.
The FIW does everything possible to ensure that congress participants are well looked after.
This Congress is aimed at FIW members, of course, but also at all music lovers and teachers who wish to learn more about Edgar Willems’ pedagogical proposal.
The partners
Three entities combine their strengths and experience to offer you a programme of over 30 hours of classes, workshops and concerts:
- The FIW – International Willems® Federation – Lyon / France.
- Le CRDM – Centro Ricercare de Divulgazione Musicale – Majano / Italie.
- The Conservatorio Superiore di Musica di Udine, which makes its premises available.
These three structures have a common goal: to provide and promote musical education for children and young people inspired by humanist principles for the development of the socially integrated human being.
The Willems® Pedagogy at the Congress
For more than 50 years, the FIW has been organising courses to raise awareness of the Willems® pedagogy and training teachers, mainly in Europe, but also in Colombia and Brazil, where a congress was held in 2022 in Salvador.
Music education can begin in a structured way from the age of 3 and naturally also with young people who start later.
One of the particularities of Edgar Willems’ pedagogical proposal is that it can be adapted to any age and any situation, provided that the stages of progression are well known.
The FIW has acquired an internationally recognised expertise in this field.
This 39th Congress will be led by a team of highly experienced artist-pedagogues, each in their own field, all steeped in and inspired by the Willems® pedagogy.
Through presentations of lessons with children, practice workshops and time for exchange between participants, the programme of more than 30 hours will allow people who are not familiar with this pedagogical approach to discover it in detail and in practice, and for teachers
General presentation
Each speaker will successively develop 2 different themes twice during the day, giving participants the choice of 4 workshops per day.
Each workshop has a progression during the 5 days of the Congress.
This is why it is advisable to follow the same workshop 5 days in a row.
The workshops are classified here into 4 groups corresponding to the time slots:
- Workshop A : 11:00 / 12:15
- Workshop B : 14:00 / 15:15
- Workshop C : 15:30 / 16:45
- Workshop D : 17:00 / 18:15
The themes of the A workshops are included in the C workshops, and those of the B workshops in the D workshops. This is to allow for a linguistic distribution that facilitates translations.
The participants must choose a workshop A, a workshop B, a workshop C and a workshop D, among the 4 proposed for each time slot, avoiding to choose the same theme with the same speaker between A and C, and B and D…
The “A7-B7-C7-D7” workshops led by Nicole Corti are devoted to choral singing combined with choral conducting, with participants taking turns being conductor and singer. As all the participants are divided between the 4 time slots, this will allow everyone to have a time of choral practice at some point in the day.
For example: A1 / B4 / C3 / D7 or A7 / B1 / C4 / D3 …
Translations: the letters following the speaker’s initials indicate the translations envisaged for each workshop. ES / Spanish – FR / French – IT / Italian – SI / Slovenian
Description of the workshops
- A1/C1. Body movement – Béatrice Chapuis-Westphal
Movement is life! The embodiment of music is a dimension too often neglected in music education, and yet, without the body, what about the rest?
Béatrice Chapuis-Westphal invites you to this journey that follows the sound vibration from our ears to the animation of our cells… - A2/C2. Practice of the pedagogical principles of the 1st and 2nd Willems® degrees – Christophe Lazerges
To experience for yourself some of the key elements of this pedagogical progression is essential to understand its meaning. A very concrete workshop for auditory sensoriality, melodic sense through singing, rhythmic sense through clapping, audio-motor synchronisation through body movements.
Christophe Lazerges will share his experience in this field. - A3/C3. Introduction of reading and writing – Mateja Tomac-Calligaris
Central element of the 3rd degree “Pre-Solfique” of the Willems® progression, this workshop will show the importance of the preparation with the graphics of the 2nd degree, then the relationship between relativity and absolute, supported by automatisms introduced in the 3rd degree and reinforced in the 4th.
Mateja Tomac-Calligaris will share his experience in this field. - A4/C4. Musical Training / Solfeggio – María-Ángeles Pérez-Lancho
The 4th level of Edgar Willems’ pedagogical proposal is both a culmination of musical initiation and the doorway to knowledge of the musical language: both practical and theoretical, it is a time for learning, for the progressive mastery of reading, writing, improvising and even composing techniques through all the styles of the history of music up to the present day.
A very vast programme that needs to be marked out!
María-Ángeles Pérez-Lancho will share her long experience in this field. - A5/C5. Instrumental beginnings – Franca Bertoli-Cividino
The Willems® pedagogy is not limited to musical initiation. It offers a coherent and complete extension for instrumental practice, presented in this workshop: ear playing, sight reading, repertoire and memory, improvisation. - A6/B6. Practical keyboard harmonization – Thibaut Louppe
Harmonisation of scales, melodies and songs is an important part of the artistic contribution of introductory lessons and solfeggio. But practice is difficult, especially for non-pianists.
Thibaut Louppe will lay the foundations for this work at various levels. - A7/B7/C7/D7. Choral Singing and Choral Conducting / Beginner & Advanced – Nicole Corti
This workshop combines the approach of a type of repertoire and the fundamental elements required to conduct a choir, with participants alternating between the roles of conductor and chorister.
Nicole Corti will approach a different repertoire in each workshop.
- B1/D1. Body movement – María-Ángeles Pérez-Lancho
María-Ángeles Pérez-Lancho, who is steeped in traditional music, has always incorporated body movement into her teaching practice, from initiation to music theory. She will offer participants a renewed experience of this primary dimension of the Willemsian trilogy: Physical Life, Affective Life and Mental Life. - B2/D2. Practice of the pedagogical principles of the 1st and 2nd Willems® degrees – Mateja Tomac-Calligaris
To experience for yourself some of the key elements of this pedagogical progression is essential to understand its meaning. A very concrete workshop for auditory sensoriality, melodic sense through singing, rhythmic sense through clapping, audio-motor synchronisation through body movements.
Mateja Tomac-Calligaris will share his experience in this field. - B3/D3. Introduction of reading and writing – Franca Bertoli-Cividino
Central element of the 3rd degree “Pre-Solfique” of the Willems® progression, this workshop will show the importance of the preparation with the graphics of the 2nd degree, then the relationship between relativity and absolute, supported by automatisms introduced in the 3rd degree and reinforced in the 4th.
Franca Bertoli-Cividino will share her experience in this field. - B4/D4. Musical Training / Solfeggio – Béatrice Chapuis-Westphal
The 4th level of Edgar Willems’ pedagogical proposal is both a culmination of musical initiation and the doorway to knowledge of the musical language: both practical and theoretical, it is a time for learning, for the progressive mastery of reading, writing, improvisation and even composition techniques through all the styles of the history of music up to the present day.
A very vast programme that needs to be marked out!
Béatrice Chapuis-Westphal will share her long experience in this field. - B5/D5. Improvisation in all its forms: Rhythmic / Melodic / Harmonic – Christophe Lazerges
It’s not when you “know” that you can start to improvise, it’s by improvising that you learn. We will experience with the participants the multiple aspects of this learning in action, through experimentation, and the interest of enriching this improvisation with elements of consciousness. - C6/D6. Organ Masterclass – Thibaut Louppe
Maître de Chapelle and organist of the St-Jean-Baptiste cathedral in Lyon, Thibaut Louppe will give a Masterclass on the French music repertoire for two levels: beginner and advanced.
This Congress will be led by a team of highly experienced French artist-pedagogues, each in their own field, all steeped in and inspired by the Willems® pedagogy:
Mateja Tomac-Calligaris, Founder/Director of the first Willems® school in Slovenia, the GCEM in Lubljana, and the initiator of the introduction of the Willems® pedagogy in her country. She spares no time between teaching music education and training to the children and teenagers of her school for 20 years and promoting the Willems® Movement in her country.
Franca Bertoli-Cividino, pianist and piano teacher at the Conservatorio Superiore di Piano in Udine. For more than 40 years she has informed and trained a large number of her piano students in the Willems® pedagogy, to which she devotes a considerable amount of time outside the Conservatory, with some children’s groups for initiation in her school, and regular interventions in Italy and Slovenia.
Béatrice Chapuis-Westphal, Inspired and inspiring musician and teacher, companion and collaborator of Jacques Chapuis for more than 30 years, she has at heart the transmission of the fundamentals of the Willems® pedagogy and their anchoring in embodied practices as close as possible to the possibilities of each person, with in particular a keen sense of the teaching of harmony and Body Movement.
María-Ángelez Pérez-Lancho, co-founder of the Sirinx music school in Salamanca, she now teaches mainly Music Training and directs vocal ensembles. She is also a long-time contributor to the Willems® Diploma courses in Salamanca and Madrid.
Nicole Corti, choir conductor and orchestra conductor, co-founder of Spirito of which she is still Artistic Director in Lyon, President of the FIW since 2012, to name but a few of her present functions, she is still driven by her dual passion as a musician and a teacher, with in both cases the search for excellence in the service of all.
Thibaut LOUPPE, organist, choirmaster and composer, Chapel Master of the St-Jean-Baptiste Cathedral in Lyon, a great improviser with a passion for transmission.
Since his discovery of the Willems® pedagogy, he has developed training programmes that extend the traditional field of the choir school to early childhood, by giving introductory lessons to children as young as 4 years old.
Christophe LAZERGES, pedagogue-musician, specialist in the Willems® pedagogy, trainer for the FIW with whom he spreads his great experience of musical and instrumental education from babies to professional musicians.
Fees
At its last meeting, the FIW Board decided to make a gesture towards those who register early.
We therefore have the following rates:
- registration up to and including 30 May: 580€.
- registration between 1st and 15th June inclusive: 600€ (full price)
- registration from 16 June to 15 July: 620€ (full price)
In addition, in order to meet certain local demands, we have set a special rate for people who only wish to attend the Organ Masterclass, or a workshop 5 days in a row, or a single full day.
- Organ Masterclass :
120€ for the 5 classes for organ performers (maximum 6)
60€ for free listeners, not registered to the Congress. - Workshop: 120€ for 5 identical workshops (1 per day).
- Day: 120€ for one day only.
Reduced fee
The Member rate is maintained at 540€ (for members who have paid their annual subscription by 15 April 2023).
It is also valid for students and jobseekers, upon presentation of proof.
- By SEPA transfer to FIW’s account at the Banque Postale: RIB on request.
(free of charge for FIW, free of charge for the sender in France – to be checked according to the banks, possible charges for some banks outside France – co
sult them)
- By PayPal transfer (3% to 5% of the amount in fees for FIW)
Click on the link below which opens a page in French.
At the bottom of this page, click on ” send ” which opens a page for accessing PayPal accounts or creating an account.
At the bottom of this new page, next to the flag, click on the ‘v’ arrow to change language and access the PayPal site in your language to continue entering the payment.
Accommodation and catering are not covered by the Congress organisation.
For accommodation
Accommodation is not covered by the Congress organisation.
For catering
A catering service will be provided by our partner UCCELLIS in its premises located near the Conservatory (the square to cross).
You can book your lunch and/or dinner when you register at the price of 12€ per meal.