• Journal article
• Published in a special issue of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education devoted to the reflective conservatoire, this article describes institutional challenges in contemporary society in attempt to create the civic (‘third’) mission of conservatoires.
• Based on the authors’ professional experiences and current literature, several challenges are addressed, with premise that it is “necessary for conservatoires to reconsider, reinvigorate and re-articulate their capacity to broader social goods” (p. 276).
• As an answer to the question “How might music academies better appear and act as institutions of public service?”, the authors provide several conclusions:
• institute a new definition of musical excellence (that is not set apart from a broader social context);
• encourage research quality, not research quantity;
• educate not just future performers, but future audiences; and
• teach a curriculum of giving.
• Suitable for anyone working within a higher music education institution.
• Available online:
  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1474022216647379

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