ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the positive effects of a transnational interschool collaboration between the Music School of Rhodes and the Music School in Landsberg in Germany on students’ experience of their music studies. Drawing on interviews and other material generated during the project, the authors provide insights into the potential of collaborative professionalism to help develop music school teachers’ practices, improve schools, and effect organisational change. Through interschool collaborations, music schools can offer alternative models of instruction, provide designs for community programmes resulting in a pooling of resources, and create significant community-building opportunities for everyone involved. Furthermore, it is argued that these collaborations intensify and diversify musical learning since they offer students the opportunity both to have meaningful new musical experiences and to form new social relationships.
