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Acclaimed musicians Girum Mezmur and and William Ramsay will be conducting a workshop titled, ‘Global Music Campus (GMC)” on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 (12:00 noon – 2:00 PM) at The Africa Institute Library.
The Global Music Campus (GMC)The GMC (Global Music Campus) is a consortium of partners including music academies from Burundi, Ethiopia, Germany, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
The aim of the consortium is to train teachers in the use of an innovative new curriculum, employing modern teaching methods developed by a team of African and German teachers that grew out of the needs and realities of the rich and diverse African Music and Culture. This curriculum is based on core musical skills, using tools which are not drawn from a specific music culture (although all the source musical material used is based on the music of Africa and the Diaspora). In this way each country can adapt these tools to their specific requirements and acquire the capacity to develop new curriculum themselves.
Girum Mezmur is an accomplished Ethiopian musician who has been a main stay for over three decades in the Addis Ababa Jazz and pop scenes as a guitarist, producer, and educator. Girum has extensively toured and appeared on various international stages with some of his projects as well as featuring various Ethiopian acts including Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete.
He started out as a self-taught musician and later studied Music Education (B.Ed) at the Yared School of Music and African Cultural Studies (MA) at Addis Ababa University. Girum designed the guitar modules for the Southeast and East African Global Music Campus program conducted by the Global Music Academy (GMA). Mezmur currently teaches jazz performance at the Yared School of Music, Addis Ababa University, and through an ongoing online program of the Global Music Campuses in Southern and Eastern Africa.
William Ramsay, a saxophonist and composer, is an active musician based in Berlin and studied music at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. He taught at the Federated Union of Black Arts in South Africa, the California Institute of the Arts as well as the Hochschule für Musik, Hanns Eisler where he developed the world music program from 1995 until 2005. He won the Adolf Grimme Preis for the music for the film „Wheels and Deals“ and a Golden Kite award in Argentina for the music for the animated film “Diriginho Sozinho”. He was the Musical Director for André Hellers Multimedia Show “Afrika! Afrika!,” and since 2008 he has been the Artistic Director of the Global Music Academy in Berlin. He has extensive knowledge of, and experience in performing African music, both contemporary and traditional, and has conducted music research in Tanzania for the Norwegian Foreign Ministry as well as in North East Pakistan for the Aga Khan Music Initiative. He is the Pedagogical Director of the Global Music Campus Program where he is responsible for curriculum design and development and is also the pedagogical advisor for the Music Crossroads Academies project in Southern Africa. He was also the project coordinator for a documentation training program in Zimbabwe funded by the German Foreign Office, where he taught research and documentation techniques. He is currently developing a Moodle LMS online learning platform for African Music containing the curriculum developed over the past 10 years in the Global Music Campus program with the support of the German Ministry of Culture ‘Neustart Kultur’ program and the Goethe-Institute.
The seminar is moderated by Elizabeth W. Giorgis, Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, The Africa Institute.
Through these lectures and workshops, The Africa Institute reaffirms its mission as a center for the study and research of Africa and its diaspora, and its commitment to the training of a new generation of critical thinkers in African and African Diaspora studies.
The seminar will be in English.
The session is free and open to the public. Registration is mandatory, Click here to book your place.
Acclaimed musicians Girum Mezmur and and William Ramsay will be conducting a workshop titled, ‘Global Music Campus (GMC)” on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 (12:00 noon – 2:00 PM) at The Africa Institute Library.
Acclaimed musicians Girum Mezmur and and William Ramsay will be conducting a workshop titled, ‘Global Music Campus (GMC)” on Tuesday, March 28, 2023 (12:00 noon – 2:00 PM) at The Africa Institute Library.
The Global Music Campus (GMC)The GMC (Global Music Campus) is a consortium of partners including music academies from Burundi, Ethiopia, Germany, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
The aim of the consortium is to train teachers in the use of an innovative new curriculum, employing modern teaching methods developed by a team of African and German teachers that grew out of the needs and realities of the rich and diverse African Music and Culture. This curriculum is based on core musical skills, using tools which are not drawn from a specific music culture (although all the source musical material used is based on the music of Africa and the Diaspora). In this way each country can adapt these tools to their specific requirements and acquire the capacity to develop new curriculum themselves.
Girum Mezmur is an accomplished Ethiopian musician who has been a main stay for over three decades in the Addis Ababa Jazz and pop scenes as a guitarist, producer, and educator. Girum has extensively toured and appeared on various international stages with some of his projects as well as featuring various Ethiopian acts including Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete.
He started out as a self-taught musician and later studied Music Education (B.Ed) at the Yared School of Music and African Cultural Studies (MA) at Addis Ababa University. Girum designed the guitar modules for the Southeast and East African Global Music Campus program conducted by the Global Music Academy (GMA). Mezmur currently teaches jazz performance at the Yared School of Music, Addis Ababa University, and through an ongoing online program of the Global Music Campuses in Southern and Eastern Africa.
William Ramsay, a saxophonist and composer, is an active musician based in Berlin and studied music at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. He taught at the Federated Union of Black Arts in South Africa, the California Institute of the Arts as well as the Hochschule für Musik, Hanns Eisler where he developed the world music program from 1995 until 2005. He won the Adolf Grimme Preis for the music for the film „Wheels and Deals“ and a Golden Kite award in Argentina for the music for the animated film “Diriginho Sozinho”. He was the Musical Director for André Hellers Multimedia Show “Afrika! Afrika!,” and since 2008 he has been the Artistic Director of the Global Music Academy in Berlin. He has extensive knowledge of, and experience in performing African music, both contemporary and traditional, and has conducted music research in Tanzania for the Norwegian Foreign Ministry as well as in North East Pakistan for the Aga Khan Music Initiative. He is the Pedagogical Director of the Global Music Campus Program where he is responsible for curriculum design and development and is also the pedagogical advisor for the Music Crossroads Academies project in Southern Africa. He was also the project coordinator for a documentation training program in Zimbabwe funded by the German Foreign Office, where he taught research and documentation techniques. He is currently developing a Moodle LMS online learning platform for African Music containing the curriculum developed over the past 10 years in the Global Music Campus program with the support of the German Ministry of Culture ‘Neustart Kultur’ program and the Goethe-Institute.
The seminar is moderated by Elizabeth W. Giorgis, Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, The Africa Institute.
Through these lectures and workshops, The Africa Institute reaffirms its mission as a center for the study and research of Africa and its diaspora, and its commitment to the training of a new generation of critical thinkers in African and African Diaspora studies.
The seminar will be in English.
The session is free and open to the public. Registration is mandatory, Click here to book your place.
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