Paul Craenen
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. P.C.A. Craenen
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- p.c.a.craenen@kunsten.leidenuniv.nl
Dr. Paul Craenen is composer, researcher, Research Professor at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and University Lecturer at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA).
After completing his master's degrees in piano and chamber music, he taught piano and experimental music at various music academies in Flanders for over fifteen years. In the early 2000s, he was the driving force behind pioneering educational projects on new music. His compositions are characterised by the use of electronics, corporeality and choreographical elements. He started postdoctoral research at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent and later continued it through docARTES, a doctoral programme for practice-based research in the arts. He received his PhD from Leiden University in 2011 with a musical portfolio and a dissertation on the music-performing body in contemporary composed music. An adapted version was published by Leuven University Press in 2014 under the title 'Composing under the Skin. The music-making body at the composer’s desk'. From 2012 to 2018, he was director of Musica Impulse Centre, a Flemish organisation for music education and arts participation. He curated a sound art collection, community music projects and a wide variety of musical events. In early 2018, he was appointed lector and head of the research group Music, Education and Society at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. His current research explores the social relevance of musical expertise. He supervises research, lectures and publishes on a wide range of music-related topics and is involved in several working groups and committees on artistic research, curriculum innovation and scientific integrity in the arts.
Research interests: music curriculum research, corporeality in contemporary music, embodied music cognition, trans-disciplinarity and intermedia, aesthetics, musical values, ethics in music.
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Academie der Kunsten
- Craenen P.C.A. (23 July 2023), Social engagement in artistic research. Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag. [lecture].
- Craenen P.C.A. (12 April 2023), Reflection and/in the musical flow. RAPP Lab, Höchschule für Musik und Tanz, Keulen. [lecture].
- Craenen P.C.A. & Vanoeveren I. 17 March 2023 - 17 March 2023. Echo 2023. [conference attendance].
- Craenen P.C.A. (25 August 2023), Sustainability in Higher Music Education and the search for new potential. Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music, Bangkok. [lecture].
- Craenen P.C.A. (1 September 2022), Flow, interruption and reflectivity in musical artistic research. Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus. [lecture].
- Craenen P.C.A. (2022), Musical nomadism at the conservatoire. DEMUSIS project event: The Music/ian is Present. Novi Sad. [lecture].
- Craenen P.C.A. 11 November 2022 - 11 November 2022. New Music Conference. Den Bosch. [conference attendance].
- Craenen P.C.A. (8 April 2022), Balancing Proximity and Distance in Musical Artistic Research. EPARM. Royal Academy of Music, London. [lecture].
- Craenen P.C.A. (24 September 2021), Reaching out from music’. Oslo. [lecture].
- Craenen P.C.A. (26 August 2021), Curating the Connections: Recent Curriculum Approaches at Higher Music Institutions. [lecture].
- Craenen P.C.A. (22 April 2021), Searching for a new home: connecting conservatory curriculum to the New World. [lecture].
- Craenen P.C.A., Lacey J., Moore S. & Castro R. 2 December 2020 - 4 December 2020. Ambiences 2020. [conference attendance].
- Craenen P.C.A. (2020), From questions to research. Höchschule für Musik und Tanz, Koln. [lecture].
- Craenen P.C.A. (24 May 2019), On the musical body. Orpheus Instituut, Gent. [lecture].
- Craenen P.C.A. (29 March 2019), Isolator or connector?: On the role of research as an integrative force between practice, theory and experience. EPARM. [lecture].
- Craenen P.C.A. (6 November 2018), On Dance-Music collaborations. Den Bosch. [lecture].