Supporting unit

  • Department of Publicity, Cultural and Sports Affairs of Liaison Office of The Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong SAR
  • Culture Sports and Tourism Bureau of The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Organizer

  • Hong Kong International Music Festival
  • Grandmaster Orchestral Society Certificate of Registration of a Society

International Society for Music Education Summit

Schedule of preliminary planning(The Formal itinerary for the trip to Hong Kong will be sent out two weeks before the competition)

Co-organizers

  • Schoenfeld International Music Society
  • Moscow State Conservatory
  • The Dean of Sydney Conservatorium of Music
  • Vancouver Academy of Music S.K. Lee College
  • Department of Art, Ocean University of China
  • The University of Texas at Dallas
  • Statal Conservatory G. Puccini-Gallarate (Italy)
  • Texas Christian University The School of Music
  • The Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy
  • Portuguese Catholic University of Music and Arts
  • The University of New Mexico
  • Harbin Conservatory of Music
  • University of North Dakota
  • ChugyeUniversity for the Arts
  • School of music, Nanjing Arts Institute
  • Sekolah Tinggi Internasional Konservatori Musik Indonsia

Sub-organizers

  • Denison University
  • University of Denver Lamont School of Music
  • The Conservatory G. Verdi Como
  • California State University, Los Angeles
  • Music School of Shanghai University
  • Azusa Pacific University
  • Westmont College
  • La Sierra University
  • Hei Longjiang Vocational College of Arts
  • Sabah Institute of Art
  • The Chinese Music Teachers Association of Northern California
  • Compassion Award
  • Mei Lanfang Memorial Museum
  • Newtune Music Association
  • Shenzhen City Philharmonic
  • Kwai Chung & Tsing Yi District Culture & Arts Co-ordinating Association Limited
  • Lin Yao Ji Music Foundation
  • Belt and Road International Cultural Exchange Committee
  • Hong Kong Sino-Western Cultural Exchange Association
  • The Hong Kong Vocal and Choral Association
  • Hong Kong Presistent Self-Reliance Fundation
  • The Cultural and Educational Association of the New Towns
  • China Travel Service(Hong Kong)
  • The Hong Kong Academy of School Mangers
  • Hong Kong Conservatory of Music
  • Hong Kong Parents Alliance Association

Background

Expression of unlimited human emotions, music is the primary tool of human. It is also the major transmission of human culture, and essential spiritual nourishment and entertainment for human life. Music is often referred to as the universal language with no borders, a cultural art form that belongs to humanity. Despite the changing times, music has never been forgotten, and its importance to people around the world continues to grow. Placing increasing emphasis on music education, music lessons have already become the only compulsory subject for middle schools, elementary schools, and kindergartens worldwide.

To cultivate a pool of talented musicians, many countries are investing heavily in music education, meanwhile music education is widely recognized essential to humanity. Striving to achieve higher levels of excellence, people are eagerly devoting themselves to music creation and performance. This healthy competition and talent cultivation are undoubtedly positive, it also raise up the level of music creation for individuals.

Scholars often publish multiple benets of learning music on the internet, and ultimately, these benets are not just achieving a high level of music prociency for the individual, but rather how music positively inuences people’s lives in intangible ways after learning it. It is commonly known, music is an important spice of human life. It not just provides entertainment and enriches human life, it also stimulates human intelligence,
leading human spiritual behavior, it also relaxing human psychological tension. Eective set of methods of music teaching build up the teenagers to being positive thinking of today’s adolescents, and stimulate the
positive energy and never-give-up spirit, and help them to understand the importance of self-love and the spirit of universal love. Young people are the future of our world, in the innite universe, the fact that the fate of humanity is interconnected and cannot be denied. Music can eectively guide young people to be lled with the spirit of mutual assistance and love, to enjoy progress together, shoulder responsibilities together, and love peace, then humanity living together on this world can have a more beautiful and harmonious future.

Target

Developing youth and cultural arts is the key project promoted of countries. The purposes of this music education summit is to integrate internationally renowned scholars (including those from China, the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia) to hold a ve-day summit in Hong Kong, where scholars and professors can gather together, share music education experiences and analyze music education programs which benet youth most. The goal is to develop a consistent and practical music education plan that can be implemented in schools. Scholars and school teachers attending the summit will be willing to promote the plan. This music summit will ultimately provide important parameters for eective models of how music education can inspire and stimulate human thinking in various aspects. It builds the fate of humanity as a community and the people who live on this earth, as well as to the peaceful and friendly development of youth.

Benets of learning music that is circulating online

    • Balancing the operation of the brain
    • Simultaneously engaging logical and visual thinking
    • Enhancing the level of visual thinking,
    • Children who learn music will not develop bad habits
    • Collaboration and teamwork consciousness
    • Music is everywhere, just like the ivy that surrounds our lives
    • The mystery of music lies not only in its abstraction and uidity but also in its participation
    • Music can bridge the gap between children and mathematics
    • Music activities often involve imagination
    • The structure of the music that children are exposed to is diverse
    • Music can provide children with rich emotional experiences and teach them to control their emotions and feelings

Key elements for successful execution

To successfully create a wonderful International Society for Music Education Summit, timing, location, and people contribution are essential.

Timing: Countries around the world place great importance on music education for youth. The International Society for Music Education Summit provides a platform for international communication and research exchange, creating a stage with all the necessary conditions for everyone to express their teaching experiences and share their insights. Through comprehensive discussions on the summit, everyone will fairly obtain feasible solutions and results.

Location:Hong Kong, as an internationally recognized metropolis with the successful implementation of “One Country, Two System,” is back up by our country and provides a favorable location for hosting large-scale international summit forums. Hong Kong is a city with democracy, freedom, openness, inclusiveness, and a gathering place for both Chinese and Western cultures, making it an ideal location for hosting events.

People:With the country’s promotion of the Belt and Road Initiative, countries need to work together, support and assist those in need, and share the fruits of world progress among countries. Under the same sky, humanity lives in one Earth village. People are gradually becoming aware of the inevitability of a shared human destiny. The Hong Kong International Music Festival has already created a huge and renowned music platform in Hong Kong, which has been recognized by music universities and educators from China, Hong Kong, and many other countries around the world.

We will connect universities and conservatories over the world, and invite expertise to conduct research and serve as keynote speakers for this project. We will invite music teachers from Hong Kong, Macau, and mainland China to attend the summit (with expected participation of over 200 schools and teachers). Through expert analysis and discussions among teacher groups, numerous scattered solutions will be obtained. The expert team will then integrate these dierent solutions and summarize them into a music education curriculum outline. The curriculum outline will be provided voluntarily to schools that have applied for pilot implementation after obtaining approval and instructions from relevant departments. These schools will become the focus of the practical results of this forum. Our organization will conduct a detailed evaluation of the eectiveness of the school, including students’ behavior, communication skills, academic performance, etc. During the second summit forum, we will invite pilot schools to share their results with the public, enabling the second forum to be more grounded and targeted.