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New EFNYO member

We warmly welcome the Verbier Festival Orchestra as associate member in the EFNYO. The orchestra was founded in 2000 as part of the Verbier Festival. It has 100 members including 60 nationalities, musicians are 18-29 years old. The orchestra courses offer two weeks of training with tutors from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, followed by three weeks with the conductor and artistic director.

EU funding news 2013

EFNYO has successfully applied for an operating grant 2013 within the framework of the three years partnership agreement with the European Commission. The 2013 budget of the federation could be raised by more than 20% over the eligible budget of 2012.

EFNYO has also started a second cycle of its successful MusXchange programme. The new programme runs from May 1, 2012 to April 30, 2014, and includes exchange projects for another 130 young musicians between 8 co-organisers and 4 associated partners from among EFNYO membership. The programme meets the demand for short-term mobility experiences for young musicians, offers orchestral practice in a different musical environment, increases their social, intercultural and language skills, and enables them to expand the network of personal contacts for their future in the music profession.

EFNYO participates in AEC Polifonia programme, 2012-14

EFNYO has been invited to join the third cycle of the successful Polifonia programme of the Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Academies des Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC). The project takes place between October 2011 and September 2014. EFNYO is represented by Renate Böck in the Working Group on "Lifelong Learning: Education for Entrepreneurship".

The working group focuses on the research of models of best practice based on possible types of cooperation between Higher Music Education (HME) institutions and organisations in the music profession. The expected outcomes should include a handbook on entrepreneurship for HME institutions, and to organise a closing conference on "The Working Musician" bringing together AEC member organisations, employers' organisations, musicians unions, and professionals from the whole music sector in the EU.

Further working group members come from the Conservatoire de Paris (chair: Gretchen Amussen), the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, the Vienna Music University, PEARLE, the European Music Council (EMC), the European String Teachers Association (ESTA), the European Music Schools Union (EMU), and the International Federation of Musicians (IFM/FIM).