- The following is based on an announcement
from the organizers of this conference:
Plans are taking shape for "Lyre 2009," the next International
Lyre Conference. It will be hosted at the unique premises of the Solvikskolan
with its clay houses, located directly by the seaside in a beautiful
area just outside Järna, only 40 minutes south of Stockholm.
It is here also that the innovative teacher and musician, Per Ahlbom,
lives and works. The theme for this conference is "Creative Improvisation."
Per Ahlbom will be much involved in the conference and will share
with us his knowledge and experience of this theme."
The conference will begin on the evening of Friday, July 31, with
a "great public concert" in the "Kulturhuset"
adjoining the Rudolf Steiner Seminar in Ytterjärna. The next
three days are "workdays," during which John Billing, Volker
Dillmann, Martin Tobiasen and several other well-known lyre players,
orchestras and builders from all over the world will lead workshops
and give concerts. Together we will create a festival of the lyre
that will carry the impulse of the lyre and of the previous international
conferences further into a creative future.
To make the journey to Sweden even more worthwhile, special events
have been planned for both before and after the conference. A first
International Lyre Teachers Conference will take place during the
two days preceding the general conference, and in the days following
the conference there will be an opportunity to explore the Stockholm
area in two excursions led by Kjell Andersson: one to Stockholm City
(historical sites and modern pulse / "The City on Water")
and the other to the beautiful archipelago outside of Stockholm, with
its 35,000 (!) islands in the Baltic Sea.
Keep an eye on the www.lyre2009.com,
the official web site of the Fourth International Lyre Conference
– Järna. To be built and maintained by pupils of Solviksskolan,
you will soon find information and further details on the conference.
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