Luc Nijs is postdoctoral researcher at IPEM (Ghent University) and PhD Student in the Arts at CORPoREAL (Royal Conservatoire Antwerp). He holds a PhD in Arts Sciences (Systematic Musicology), MA degrees in Music Performance (clarinet) and Philosophy, and a Teacher Certificate (clarinet, sax, ensemble playing). His research integrates theory development, empirical studies and practice, focusing on the musician ‐ instrument relationship, on the role of body movement in the instrumental learning processes and on the role of technology in provoking an embodied approach to instrumental music education. His work with the Music Paint Machine (see: www.musicpaintmachine.be) was awarded the EAPRIL Best Research and Practice Project Award 2012. He is a regular invited speaker on music educational seminars and was member of the advisory board of the Flemish Ministry of Education, shaping the reforms of music education in Flanders.

Luc was selected as member and appointed chair (2017-2021) of the AEC Digitization Working Group.

Furthermore, he is Associate Editor (Europe, Middle East) for the International Journal of Music in Early Childhood (IJMEC).

He was guest lecturer in Music Educational Technology at Luca School of Arts Leuven (BE). Currently, he is guest lecturer in "Music Educational Technology" and "Embodied Music Cognition" at the Royal Conservatory The Hague (NL) and guest lecture in "Kinemusical improvisation" at Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen (BE).

Agenda - Education - Research areas - Awards-Websites

NEWS

I have been selected for a mandate to pursue a PhD in the Arts at Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. My project is called "KIMUPE". See www.kimupe.education.

in 2019-2020, I will give guest lectures at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, addressing embodiment in instrumental music teaching and learning, based on "kinemusical improvisation".

AGENDA

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* = invited

___2019

*16 november: lecture on embodiment in musical interaction @ journée d’études Musique et cognition: l’écoute et l’imaginaire dans l’expérience musicale , at Paris-Sorbonne University (F).

*10 november: workshop on "kinemusical improvisation" @ Muziekacademie Dilbeek. See here

*7-9 november: AEC Annual Congress 2019 @ Conservatorio di Musica "G. Verdi", Turin, Italy. See here

25-27 september: workshop with the Music Paint Machine @ ELIA Academy in Stuttgart. See here

30 july: concert @ The 4th International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS4): Plastique Animée: Barbara Dutkiewicz - Performers: Jakub Gerula (piano), Katarzyna Pudełko (flute), Luc Nijs (clarinet) -Movement: Natalia Kidoń, Karolina Lisowska, Karolina Paczuła, Agnieszka Pysz, Patrycja Widlarz, Barbara Dutkiewicz, Marta Kleszcz. See here.

28 july - 31 august: workshop on expressive movement in instrumenal music learning @ The 4th International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS4), at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. See here.

*28 may: keynote at ArtEZ Hogeschool (Enschede): Interactive technologies in music education.

01-03 may: meeting of the AEC SMS project in Riga (Letland).

*7 march: workshop-lecture @ Impulsdag LUCA School of Arts Leuven: Movement in practicing your instrument

*14 feb: lecture on embodiment in instrumental music learning @ KASK (Gent)

31 jan - 1feb: meeting steering board ELIA conference in Stuttgart

21 jan: lecture on embodiment in instrumental music learning @ Royal Conservatory The Hague

___2018

*11 december: lecture/demo with Music Paint Machine @ Erasmus University College Rotterdam

*8-10 november: AEC Annual Congres (Graz, AU)

*7-8 november: meeting AEC Digitization Working Group (Graz, AU)

*6 november: lecture/workshop@ Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne (CH): Technology in (instrumental) music education

*29 October: lecture at Royal Conservatory The Hague: Embodiment in instrumental music education.

*24-26 october: presentation at AEC and CEMPE Learning and Teaching Conference

*23 october: presentation at OVD meeting in Knokke (BE)

*24-28 september: guest lectures & workshops on embodied music cognition @ NWU, Potchefstroom (South-Africa)

*5-6 july: keynote Science & Society session @ ENCODS 2018 (Berlin)

EDUCATION

2019 - 2023 - PhD in the Arts - Royal Conservatory Antwerp

2012 - PhD in Art Sciences (Systematic Musicology) - Ghent University

2008 - 2012 - doctoral school Ghent University

2008 - Master in Philosophy - Ghent University

1997 - Master Degree in Music Performance (clarinet, with Piet Jeegers) - Royal Conservatory Brussels

1997 - Teacher Diploma - chamber music - Royal Conservatory Brussels

1996 - teacher Diploma - clarinet - Royal Conservatory Brussels

Masterclasses with: Michel Lethiec, Eduard Brunner, Ronald Van Spaendonck, Richard Vielle

Private lessons with: Thomas Friedli, Walter Boeykens, Michel Lethiec, Ronald Van Spaendonck, Fang Song, Ivan Fisher

RESEARCH AREAS

Embodied Music Learning

Instrumental Music Pedagogy & didactics:

- the role of movement

- educational technologies

Musician-Instrument relationship

Expressiveness and intentionality in music performance

- the role of bodily freedom

Student assessment in specialist (instrumental) music education

AWARDS

EAPRIL Best Research and Practice Project 2012

Prix Leopold Genin (music performance)

WEBSITES

www.lucnijs.be

www.musicpaintmachine.be

Projects

Publications

Key publications

Assessing a clarinet player's performer gestures in relation to locally intended musical targets(2012)
- Frank Desmet
- Luc Nijs
- Michiel Demey
- Micheline Lesaffre
- Jean-Pierre Martens
- Marc Leman
Interacting with the music paint machine: relating the constructs of flow experience and presence(2012)
- Luc Nijs
- Pieter Coussement
- Bart Moens
- Denis Amelynck
- Micheline Lesaffre
- Marc Leman
Interactive technologies in the instrumental music classroom: a longitudinal study with the music paint machine(2014)
- Luc Nijs
- Marc Leman
The musical instrument as a natural extension of the musician(2013)
- Luc Nijs
- Micheline Lesaffre
- Marc Leman
Dalcroze meets technology : integrating music, movement and visuals with the Music Paint Machine(2017)
- Luc Nijs

Most recent publications

Full bibliography

Services

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

Organiser of the IPEM Think Tanks

BOARDS @ Ghent University

GP2R: Board Pre- & Postdocs

ACADEMIC SERVICES

_Editor

International Journal of Music in Early Childhood (IJMEC) - Associate editor Europe, Middle East

_Review

_Guest Lecturer

Royal Conservatory of Music The Hague

LUCA School of Arts (Leuven): Technology in Music Education

_Membership thinktanks

AEC Digitization Working Group (link)

GUIDANCE & EVALUATION OF PHD & MA

2015 - : co-promotor of Phd theses at LUCA School of Arts

2018: co-promotor of MA theses at UAntwerpen

2017, 2016: member of PhD jury at UAntwerpen

2016 - : member of PhD guidance committee at Ghent University

2016 - : member of PhD jury at Ghent University

2015 - : guidance of MA theses at Ghent University

2015 - : guidance of MA theses at Royal Conservatory of Music The Hague

2014 - : member of MA jury at Royal Conservatory of Music The Hague

2012 - : member of MA jury at LUCA School of Arts (leuven)

Activities

* = invited talk/workshop/lecture

___2019

*10 november: workshop on "kinemusical improvisation" @ Muziekacademie Dilbeek. See here

*09 november: leture on embodiment in musical interaction @ journée d’études Musique et cognition: l’écoute et l’imaginaire dans l’expérience musicale , at Paris-Sorbonne University

*7-9 november: AEC Conference

25-27 september: workshop @ ELIA Academy in Stuttgart. See here.

28 july - 31 august: workshop on expressive movement in instrumenal music learning @ The 4th International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS4), at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. See here.

*28 may: keynote at ArtEZ Hogeschool (Enschede): Interactive technologies in music education.

01-03 may: meeting of the AEC SMS project in Riga (Letland).

*7 march: workshop-lecture @ Impulsdag LUCA School of Arts Leuven: Movement in practicing your instrument

*14 february: lecture on embodiment in instrumental music learning @ KASK (Gent)

31 jan - 1feb: meeting steering board ELIA conference in Stuttgart

*21 jan: lecture on embodiment in instrumental music learning @ Royal Conservatory The Hague

___2018

*11 december: lecture/demo with Music Paint Machine @ Erasmus University College Rotterdam

*8-10 november: AEC Annual Congres (Graz, AU)

*7-8 november: meeting AEC Digitization Working Group (Graz, AU)

*6 november: lecture/workshop @ Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne (CH): Technology in (instrumental) music education

*24-26 october: presentation at AEC and CEMPE Learning and Teaching Conference

*24-28 september: guest lectures & workshops on embodied music cognition @ NWU, Potchefstroom (South-Africa)

*5-6 July: invited lecture @ ENCODS 2018 (Berlin)

*6 march: guest lecture "new media in Music Education" @ The Hague Conservatory (NL)

*22-23 february: Keynote lecture on embodiment in instrumental music learning and workshop @ JIRP (Toulouse, Fr)

*20 february: workshop "new media in Music Education" @ The Hague Conservatory (NL)

*13 february: guest lecture "new media in Music Education" @ The Hague Conservatory (NL)

2 february: presentation @ Conference on Distance Learning in Music HEIs @ Milan G.Verdi Conservatoire of Music.

20 january: participating with the Music Paint Machine in a workshop on adaptation of singing- and acting techniques in voice rehabilitatin after laryngectomy

18 january: presentation on the Music Paint Machine @ De Krook

17 january: Music Paint Machine @ International Opera Academy

*12 January: lecture/workshop @ ArtEZ Hogeschool Enschede (NL)

___2017

*13 December: lecture/workshop @ Pedagogical seminar

*12 December: guest lecture @ Erasmus University College

*4 November: lecture @ The Hague Conservatory on the importance of technology in music education

*26 october: panel member @ book presentation "Ticket to Ride: praktijkonderzoek in muziekeducatie". Nest, Gent. See here

21 october: demo with Music paint machine @ Digitale Doebeurs Gent

*16 october: lecture @ Luca School of Arts (Leuven) on technology in instrumental music education

10 october: demo @ Kraks@DeKrook

*9 october: lecture @ The Hague Conservatory on "instrumental music education and embodiment"

6-7 October: attending the European Music School Symposium - "The Future of Music Schools - today's challenges and tomorrow's solutions"

4 August: workshop with Miror Impro, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Anna Rita Addessi

29 June: opening brainstorm session of the project "Singewing Space"

28 June: visit opening Soundlab Amsterdam

22 June: jury PhD defense Françoise Vanhecke

1 June: jury master thesis defences LUCA School of Arts

24-27 April: spoken presentation and poster @ RIME 2017, Bath Spa, UK

* 6 April: study day of "netwerk muziekdocenten pabo’s", Doetinchem, NL - "Interactieve technologie, toekomstmuziek? Een case study met de Music Paint Machine."

*31 March: guest lecture @ Luca School of Arts - Interactive Technology for music education.

*24 March: guest lecture @ Luca School of Arts - Interactive Technology for music education.

*23 March: guest lecture @ Kask Conservatorium - Music performance and embodiment

*17 March: lecture @ Erasmus Univeristy College Rotterdam - The Music Paint Machine.

*3 March: guest lecture @ Luca School of Arts - Interactive Technology for music education.

*25 Februari: workshop with the The Music Paint Machine at 4ème Journées Internationales en Recherches et Pratique en pédagogie instrumental et vocal (Haute Ecole de Musique, Genève, CH)

*20 February: guest lecture @ The Hague Conservatory - Embodied Music Cognition.

*3 February: guest lecture @ The Hague Conservatory - Interactive Technology for music education.

*27 January: guest lecture @ The Hague Conservatory - Interactive Technology for music education.

*18 January: guest lecture @ The Hague Conservatory - Interactive Technology for music education.

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Dr. Luc Nijs

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