Frans Brouwer lectures Cultural Entrepreneurship and Arts Management, and serves as a supervisor for master theses in the MA Programme at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Being a cultural entrepreneur himself, he is the managing director of Wind Art Festival Europe 2011-2012 and serves as a consultant. Moreover he lectures Music Management at Alpe-Adria University Klagenfurt (Austria) and supervises students Arts & Economics at the Utrecht School of the Arts.
Frans is and has been a member of several executive committees for cultural organisations on the field of music and music theatre as well as for a museum. Specialised in project development, interdisciplinary and international cultural projects as well as in strategic and executive leadership, he is active in an extensive international network. The Culture Executive Agency of the European Commission, Brussels, regularly invites him as an expert to assess grant applications for culture.
Previous projects and employment include research at Groningen University as well as directorships at the Netherlands Institute for Church Music, the Utrecht Conservatoire, Holland Festival Early Music Utrecht, Nieuw Sinfonietta Amsterdam and Combattimento Consort Amsterdam. Frans has been conservatory professor in Groningen and served as an editor of book series and magazines. He has organised many interdisciplinary cultural projects in and outside Europe (concert, opera, CD and DVD productions) and has worked as a project leader at European Cultural Capital Copenhagen 1996.
Frans’s publications are mainly on the field of interdisciplinary cultural history. His dissertation (Utrecht University 1990, funded by an N.W.O. research program) is a cultural study about renewals on the field of liturgical worship, poetry and music in the Nordic countries between 1800 and 1950. He studied musicology at Utrecht University and science of liturgy at Groningen University.
Research
Frans Brouwer’s recent research concerns marketing of cultural heritage in Slovenia (Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana). He is developing tools and skills on the field of cultural management for post-war areas in the South Eastern part of Europe. Former research includes cultural history, hymnology and organ building in The Netherlands and Northern Europe.
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