Jens Cording

Jens Cording is a violinist and culture manager. From 1993 to 2009, he initiated and conceived contemporary music projects in Europe, Asia, and the USA for the Siemens Arts Program.

Since October 2009 he has worked for the non-profit Siemens Stiftung, developing music projects in terms of content and structure. For example, he was instrumental in founding the first contempo-rary music ensemble in China.

In cooperation with numerous African cultural institutions and the Goethe-Institut, he is currently working on the development of a comprehensive music information platform for Africa under the title "Music In Africa". With the special project "Music In Africa Connects", he pursued the goal of activating cultural processes in crisis regions of Africa. "Music In Africa Live" currently offers music creators the opportunity to produce music professionally under pandemic conditions.

Cording is a member of the German Music Council’s Executive Committee, Supervisory Board, and Strategy Commission. He is also Chairman of the council’s Federal Diversity Committee and its Eu-ropean Workshop for Contemporary Music Advisory Board.

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Musicians can sing or play in the ensembles of the German Music Council, the Federal Youth Orchestra, the Federal Jazz Orchestra and the Federal Youth Choir, and take part in competitions. With four other projects in the area of promotion, the German Music Council supports young, highly talented musicians, conductors, composers and interpreters of contemporary music as well as pop musicians on their way to a professional musical life and builds a bridge between musicians, organizers and the public. In addition, the German Music Information Center (miz) offers a central information point on all topics of musical life.

 

 

The German Music Council is the sponsor of the competitions for children and young people: Jugend musiziert and Jugend jazzt, the competitions for professional musicians: the German Music Competition, the German Conducting Award (formerly the German Conducting Prize) and the German Choral Conducting Award, as well as the competitions for amateur musicians: theGerman Choir Competition and the German Orchestra Competition.

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Promoting young musicians in the ensemblesof the German Music Council also includes performing on stage in front of an audience. The project leaders are happy to accept requests for engagements. The German Music Competition concert promotion program arranges approximately 200 concerts a year for concert organizers and concert series.

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With the German Music Information Center, the German Music Council offers a central information point on all topics of musical life.