Today we’re visiting with Heidi Vandermeersch in Belgium. Heidi has been teaching for a long time but had to make some big pivots a few years ago when the curriculum and structure changed. I found it fascinating to learn about a music education system that is so different from the Irish one and yet still has echoes of the same conundrums we face here and I’m sure  you will too. Heidi is a 50 year old happily married mum of 4 kids between 8 and 14. She graduated in 1994 at the Lemmensinstituut (now part of “School of Arts”) in Leuven, Belgium as “Laureaat” piano and piano pedagogy. She lives in Ieper, Belgium where she teaches piano at “dé Academie”, the local music academy. She teaches around 60 students between 8 and 80. She also sings in Chorus, a local choir, and accompanies the Chorus Youth choir. In the little bit of spare time she has, she enjoys reading a good historic or romantic novel, going for a walk and cooking for the family.

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