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University in France and High School of Music in Switzerland: places to train mediators

This contribution presents two spaces for training in music mediation: lessons from the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland and the Masters in music mediation from the Sorbonne Nouvelle and Sorbonne University universities in France. In Switzerland as in France, at the end of the training, people become potential music mediators. Wouldn’t the union of these two mediator profiles make it possible to overcome on the ground the theoretical conflict between the aesthetic requirement and the democratic requirement? I will try to answer this question by reflecting based on my experience of teaching at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, of designing and carrying out research within the HEMU on the other hand and finally of participating in international times of reflection on music

Biography

Trained in cultural mediation practices and sociological issues, Bérangère Dujardin teaches at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in the cultural mediation and music mediation courses. At the same time, she oversees cultural action for the ensemble Les Apaches. She is also project manager in the department of studies, forecasting, statistics, and documentation at the Ministry of Culture in France. She was a research assistant at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne. After a Master’s degree in Music Mediation at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle and Lettres Sorbonne Universities, she was a production manager for two years, before joining the HEMU/HEP for three research projects: one on the motivations of audiences and of the actors of the mediation involved in the Music between the lines project (HEMU Lausanne), the other on the educational nature of the school trip to the concert and the last on the qualities of sociability between adults in a course of transdisciplinary cultural mediation.