INTRODUCTION TO THE CONFERENCE

The circulation of works and ideas is without doubt what has made the most profound contribution to the foundation of Europe. The Europe of artists, the Europe of musicians: the example of the correspondence, travel notes, and journeys of composers help us to appreciate the need for movement and understand influences.

At the time when the Political Europe is under construction, the workings of cultural institutions – traditionally part of a national context – are being confronted with new realities: how to combine local stakes (national, or even regional) with legitimate European obligations.

The Réseau Varèse was founded in 1999 and, tries, in its own way to answer these questions in an original form. Thanks to the support of the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union, it helps its members in their common goal to circulate new musical works, thus stimulating cooperation, without taking over the artistic decisions of each member.

his operation reconciles two essential aspects of our activities: idealism which attempts to circulate works of our time to the greatest number of people and pragmatism which demands finance for such creations and their circulation.

The aim of the Réseau Varèse Conference is to review this form of operation, to express our expectations of it and to share this experience with personalities outside the Réseau Varèse, invited to set out their thoughts on matters of cultural cooperation in Europe.

HELSINKI : 4th February 2011

Contributions :

Ms Catherine Milliken, Director of Zukunft@BPhil (Education Programme of the Berliner Philharmoniker)

Ms Tuula Yrjö-Koskinen, Acting Director, Stoa - The Cultural Centre of Eastern Helsinki

Ms Agnès de Jacquelot, Animation and Young Audience Program Manager at the Opéra de Paris

Mr Jorge Prendas, Head of Education of the Casa da Música, Porto

Ms Gillian Moore, Head of Contemporary Culture, Southbank Centre, London

Mr Antoine Gindt, President of the Réseau Varèse, Director of T&M-Paris

PARIS : 10th June 2010

Contributions :

Mr Xavier Rodet, Researcher at the Ircam, associated with Gérard Pesson for the creation of Cantate égale Pays

Mr Laurent Le Bon, Director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz

Mr Matthias Osterwold, Director of Maerzmusik-Berliner FestSpiele, Berlin

Mr Risto Nieminen, Music Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon

Mr Frank Madlener, Director of the IRCAM, Paris

Mr Antoine Gindt, President of the Réseau Varèse, Director of T&M-Paris

HUDDERSFIELD : 22nd November 2008

Contributions :

Ms Liza Lim, Composer, Professor of composition at the University of Huddersfield

Mr Stéphane Malfettes, Programmer at Musée du Louvre in Paris and Louvre-Lens

Mr Dror Feiler, Composer

Mr Antoine Gindt, President of the Réseau Varèse, Director of T&M-Paris

Mr Lieven Bertels, Artistic Coordinator of the Holland Festival

Mr Graham McKenzie, Artistic Director and Managing Director of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Visiting Research Fellow at the’University of Huddersfield

BERLIN : 17th March 2007

Contributions :

Ms Nathalie Heinich, Sociologist, Research director at the CNRS

Ms Adrienne Goehler, Psychologist, Independent commissioner in Berlin

Mr Johannes Johansson, Composer, Director of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm

Ms Nele Hertling, Director of the Berliner Künstlerprogramms des DAAD

Ms Chaya Czernowin, Composer

Mr Beat Furrer, Composer, Conductor

Mr Bojan Budisavljevic, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Head of the Netzwerk Neue Musik

Mr Joachim Sartorius, Director of the Berliner Festspiele

Mr François Laquièze, Director of the DRAC Alsace (French Ministry of Culture and Communication)

Mr Antoine Gindt, President of the Réseau Varèse, Director of T&M-Paris

Mr Matthias Osterwold, Artistic Director of Maerzmusik

OSLO : 14th October 2005

Contributions :

Ms Valgerd Svarstad Haugland, Minister of Culture (Norway)

Mr Helmut Lachenmann, Composer

Mr Jean-Yves Bainier, French Ministry of Culture and Communication, DRAC Alsace

Ms Susanna Eastburn, Executive Producer of LIFT (London International Festival of Theater), former Artistic Director of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Ms Cecilie Ore, Composer, writer

Mr Antoine Gindt, President of the Réseau Varèse, director of T&M-Paris

Mr Stein Olav Henrichsen, Président of the Ultima Festival, Oslo

Mr Geir Johnson, Artistic Director of the Ultima Festival, Oslo

Mr Javier Guëll, Director of Musicadhoy, Madrid

BUDAPEST : 22nd October 2004

Contributions :

Ms Zsofia Zimanyi, Director of the Budapest Festival Center Kht

Ms Erika Koncz, Deputy, Secretary of State representing Mr. Istvan Hiller, Minister of Culture of the Republic of Hungary

Mr Antoine Gindt, President of the Réseau Varèse, director of T&M-Paris

Ms Elisabeth Schweeger, Treasurer of the Réseau Varèse, Director General of the schauspielfrankfurt

Mr Krisztian Kolesar, Manager de production au Festival d’Automne de Budapest

Mr Pascal Dumay, Music consultant to the Direction de la Musique, de la Danse, du Theatre et des Spectacles of the Ministry of Culture and Communication (France)

Ms Hildegard Siess, Director of the Music department of the division of Cultural Affairs of the Federal Chancellery of Austria representing Mr. Franz Morak, Secretary of State for Arts and Communication (Austria)

Ms Anne-Marie Autissier, Sociologist, Lecturer at the Institut d’Etudes European of the University of Paris-VIII