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Looking Back - Looking Forward: The Future of Europe‘s Musical Roots 7 - 10 June 2018 in Oslo, Norway Co-produced by:

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His Royal Highness The Crown Prince Haakon of Norway is the patron of the 8th European Forum on Music.

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Welcome to the 8th European Forum on Music Dear Friends and Colleagues, You are all most welcome to this, our 8th European Forum on Music, held here in the heart of Nordic Culture; Oslo. We have traveled from Wroclaw in 2017, through Paphos, Cyprus last year to Norway and its vibrant capital city of Oslo and our theme for 2018: Looking Back/Looking Forward: The Future of Europe’s Musical Roots. This has been a challenging and rewarding journey for us all and we see the progress that the EMC has made in being recognised as one of Europe’s most significant cultural and creative organisations. This is exemplified in our own European Agenda for Music, to which you have all contributed and to the key role we have played in the Music Moves Europe Initiative from the European Commission. It is an honour to represent the European Music Council and I hope that you will all be inspired by participating in our forum in Oslo.

Ian Smith, Chairman of the European Music Council

The Norwegian Music Council is proud to welcome all delegates of the 8th European Forum on Music welcome to Oslo and Norway. As new members of the European Music Council we are very happy to be able to host the forum, as an important platform for sharing ideas, thoughts and common projects.

Norway is a country of long musical traditions and a strong folk music culture, but also full of musicians who are innovative and creative in shaping the music of tomorrow. During the coming days the Norwegian Music Council with its organizations and partners would like to share with you a glimpse of the different Norwegian musical traditions, looking both back and forward.

We hope that the coming days will give you much inspiration and that the conference will contribute to new projects being born, that lots of ideas will be shared, and that you will leave Oslo with future projects in sight.

Bård Vegar Solhjell, Chairman of the Norwegian Music Council

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Programme Thursday,

7 June 2018 17:30

Norwegian Music Council Friday, 8 June 2018 Sentralen/ Oslo City Hall/ Det Norske Teatret

Welcome Summer Party Norwegian Music Council

08:30

Registration & Coffee

09:15

Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola

09:30

Opening of the 8th European Forum of Music by Ian Smith, Chairman of the EMC Bård Vegar Solhjell, Chairman of the Norwegian Music Council Frida Blomgren, Deputy Minister of Culture Marble Hall, Sentralen

10:00

Keynote: Looking Back – Looking Forward. The Future of Europe’s Musical Roots by Ferdinand Richard, Chair of the Roberto Cimetta Fund Marble Hall, Sentralen

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00 Sessions in parallel

Freedom of Expression Panel Discussion chaired by Sara Whyatt, advisor of the Working Group Arts Rights Justice Europe and UNESCO Expert on freedom of artistic expression Jan Lothe Erikson, SafeMUSE Srirak Plipat, Freemuse Sina Winter, From the Vastland

11:00 Sessions in parallel

followed by a workshop developed by the Working Group Arts Rights Justice Europe Marble Hall, Sentralen Global Warming Awarenes Panel Discussion chaired by Linnéa Svensson, Greener Events Foundation Peder Karlsson, End Ecocide Sweden Bård Vegar Solhjell, Norwegian Music Council & WWF Norway Beatrice Gabor, MAINOI Association Gym, Sentralen

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13:30

Reception by Marianne Borgen, Mayor of Oslo Invitation by Oslo City Hall incl. guiding tour (optional) Oslo City Hall

16:00

Coffee & Joint Networking Meeting with ETC Det Norske Teatret

16:30

The Future of Performing Arts in Europe Cultural Policy & Funding Mechanisms of the EU Joint session with the European Theatre Convention and Barbara Gessler, European Commission (DG EAC) Det Norske Teatret

18:00

Board Candidate Presentations - as part of the EMC Annual Meeting Marble Hall, Sentralen

09:00

Registration & Coffee Master of Ceremony: Simone Dudt

09:30 Sessions in parallel

Saturday, 9 June 2018 Sentralen/ Piskoteket

Oral Transmission as Intangible Cultural Heritage Panel Discussion chaired by Gerhard Sammer Manu Théron, artist Antoni Beksiak, composer Katarina Barruk, Sami artist Mihály Rosonczy Kovács, artist Marble Hall, Sentralen

9:30 Sessions in parallel

Rostrum+: The Future of Recent Musical Repertoire Panel Discussion chaired by Davide Grosso, International Music Council Pascale Labrie, European Broadcasting Union Therese Birkeland Ulvo, composer Joanna Grotkowska, Polish Music Council Stefan Forsberg, Konserthuset Stockholm The Vault, Sentralen

11:00

Coffee Break with Norwegian Girls Choir

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11:30

Lecture/Concert by the Norwegian Centre for Traditional Music & Dance Marble Hall, Sentralen

12:00

Music in the Future: European Agenda for Music Marble Hall, Sentralen

13:30

Lunch Break

14:00

From the Vastland The Vault, Sentralen

14:30

Idea Hub: Project Presentations Marble Hall, Sentralen

16:00

Market Place A place for networking and present your organisation and projects with Thea Breivik, Creative Europe Desk Norway, and Kate Deans, Creative Europe Desk Scotland Marble Hall, Sentralen

18:00

Conference Wrap Up Gretchen Amussen, European Music Council Katarina Barruk, Sami artist Marble Hall, Sentralen

21:00

Farewell Party - Music by Hamid Sakizhada Piskoteket

Sunday, 10 June 2018

09:00 Marble Hall, Sentralen 09:30

Annual Meeting of the European Music Council

11:00

Coffee Break

11:30

Annual Meeting of the European Music Council

afterwards

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Registration for the Annual Meeting & Coffee

Lunch for participants of the Annual Meeting

From savings bank to cultural think tank:

Sentralen

March 2016: Just 115 years after the opening of Christiania Sparebank, a completely new version of this group of old bank buildings stands ready for use.

“This bank will stand for eternity, unless it explodes from pressure from within.”

So said architect Henrik Nissen at the inauguration of Christiania Sparebank on 14 April 1901.

Christiania Sparebank, Norway’s first savings bank, was founded in 1822. The bank was a social initiative, created to serve the working class people of Oslo. A large proportion of the bank’s profits were spent on social projects within the capital. Projects funded in this way included the construction of the Royal Palace, Parliament, University, Stock Exchange, Norges Bank, Freemasons’ Lodge and Oscarshall Summer Palace, as well as the bank’s own headquarters which were erected in 1898.

The Sentralen project started in 2007 when Sparebankstiftelsen DNB (the DNB Savings Bank Foundation) bought the buildings of the DNB Bank. With time, the idea of using the building as part of the Foundation’s charitable activities emerged. During the period 2009-2012, potential users and focus groups were consulted and more than 200 interviews conducted to determine what Sentralen’s purpose should be and who would use it.

The result of these surveys demonstrated that Oslo had a need for an open meeting and work space for cultural producers. Further into the process, it was also decided that Sentralen should be a centre for innovators working on finding new solutions for dealing with social challenges.

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Speakers Gretchen Amussen Trained as a musician, the Franco-American Gretchen Amussen has served as Director for External Affairs and International Relations at the Paris Conservatoire since 1992, promoting the school through an extensive worldwide network of educational and cultural organizations. Active in numerous international networks, she is currently a member of the board of the European Music Council: in that capacity, she participated in the webinar dedicated to entrepreneurship in music as part of the STAMP Project. Previously she served as Vice-President of the European Association of Conservatoires (AEC), and led AEC European thematic working groups dedicated to the implications of the Bologna Declaration for higher education in music (200104), the evolution of the musical profession in Europe (Polifonia 2004-07), and educating for entrepreneurship in music (Polifonia 2011-2014).

Katarina Barruk Katarina Barruk has established herself as a well-known and much appreciated artist within the Sami community in the Nordic countries. She writes her own texts in Umesaami and composes music influenced by jazz and pop, but always with the Sami elements present. Katarina has worked together with the arranger and producer Frode Fjellheim and published her first album Báruos in 2015, which she describes as unhidden, open, apparent. Katarina works with her music both at home by the piano as well as together with her band, and is touring both in the Nordic countries and internationally.

Katarina lives in Ubmeje (Umeå) and is one of the few persons who speak Umesaami fluent. In 2012 she was awarded Young Sami Artist of the Year at Photo by Helleday Arts the festival Riddu Riddu.

Antoni Beksiak Music critic, editor, curator, researcher, radioman, composer, vocalist, computer freak. Instituter and animator of phenomena in the field of traditional music of Poland (“Dom Tanca” Association co-founded in 1994/5, digitizing mazurka rhythms at Niewte), contemporary composition and avant-pop (Turning Sounds events), vocality (Gebofon/Mouth-o-Fonic events, Geba vocal ensemble), sound art in city spaces, improvisation (Ad Libitum festival). More recently theatre artist (with Marta Górnicka’s Chorus of Women and Michał Borczuch) and filmmaker. Increasingly devotes himself to vocal performance and composition (as Baskak).

Photo by Maria Kallagova

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Frida Blomgren Ms Blomgren was appointed as State Secretary to Minister of Culture Trine Skei Grande by the King in Council on 16 February 2018. Blomgren was first appointed as a political adviser to the Minister of Culture on 17 January 2018.

Photo by Mona Lindseth

marianne borgen The Mayor of Oslo is Head of the City Council and the highest-ranking representative of the city. Mrs. Marianne Borgen was elected Mayor by the City Council on October 21 in 2015.

She has a degree in sociology from the University of Oslo with specialization in social policies and medical sociology. She has worked with children’s rights on both a national and international level for more than 25 years. She is currently on leave from her position as Head of Department at Save the Children, Norway.

Mayor Marianne Borgen wants Oslo to be a city that is inclusive and a good place to grow up for all children.

Photo: Oslo kommune/Sturlason

Simone Dudt Simone Dudt studied cultural sciences in Hildesheim, Germany and Marseille, France focusing on Fine Arts and Music. She worked for the educational programmes of several museums and music schools and as academic assistant at the University of Hildesheim.

Simone has been working for the European Music Council since 2004, where she co-ordinated the EU funded ExTra! Exchange Traditions project.

From 2010-2014 she was member of the Board of Culture Action Europe, a European umbrella organisation that advocates for culture at the EU institutions of which she became Vice Chair in 2012. She is author of diverse articles on music and cultural policy as well as a speaker on these topics at European conferences. She has been Secretary General of the EMC since 2010 (partly in dual leadership with Ruth Jakobi) and she is currently on maternity leave.

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Jan lothe eriksen Jan Lothe Eriksen: A former musician and cellist of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, vice president of the Norwegian Musicians’ Union, administrative director of the Norwegian Traditional Music and Dance Association/ Norwegian Traditional Music Agency, and initiator and first director of Riksscenen, national venue for traditional music and dance (Norway). Jan initiated SafeMUSE together with the Norwegian Musicians’ Union in 2011 in close cooperation with Freemuse, serves today as SafeMUSE Project Manager. He has for a period in recent years also been working as a cellist with the Sami artist Torgeir Vassvik.

stefan forsberg Stefan Forsberg is since 2003 the Executive and Artistic Director of the Royal Stockholm Phil¬harmonic Orchestra (RSPO) and the Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation (SCHF.) Prior to his appointment at the SCHF, Forsberg held the position as Director of Programme and Planning at the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir.

On behalf of the Swedish Parliament, Forsberg planned and carried out the official wedding concert for the Swedish Crown Princess in June 2010 as well as the Jubilee concert in 2013 for His Majesty the King.

Among other appointments; Forsberg is a member of European Concert Hall Organisation, chairman of the branch organisation Swedish Performing Arts, a board member of the Scandinavian Concert Halls Association, the Lord Chamberlain-in-Waiting at the Royal Court, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and a member of the price committee of the Polar Music Prize.

beatrice gabor Beatrice Gabor, communication practitioner, co-founded MAINOI, a Romanian NGO active in environmental protection, alternative education and cultural promotion to encourage people to manifest their authenticity and empower them to become agents of change for sustainable development.

Pioneering green events management in Romania, since 2014, Beatrice manages the sustainability programme at Electric Castle music festival, shortlisted in 2016 and 2017 for the European Green Operations Award, and in 2015 winner of the runner-up position in the EE Music Star Festival at the Energy Efficiency Music Awards in Barcelona.

Through the Music Drives Change campaign, Beatrice engages with artists to raise awareness on the powerful role of music in shaping behaviours. Worldclass artists, among which Trentemøller, Alt-J, Asian Dub Foundation, The Cat Empire, Nightmares on Wax, Dub Pistols, The Subways, have already endorsed calls-to-action for sustainability.

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davide grosso Ethnomusicologist, Five Music Rights activist with a strong background in journalism and media.

He joined the International Music Council in 2012 where he is in charge of project management. Among other projects, he coordinates the International Rostrum of Composers and since 2015, its “big brother” Rostrum+.

He also curates the edition of the newsletter Music World News and the communication campaigns of the IMC. Outside the office he composes electronic music for a contemporary puppet theatre company and writes about music and politics for various magazines Photo by Slawek Przerwa and blogs.

joanna grotkowska Music critic, journalist, radio producer. She has worked for Channel Two of the Polish Radio for 27 years. She has produced several hundred original radio programmes, including ‘radio portraits’ of such composers as John Cage, H.M. Górecki, Louis Andriessen, Magnus Lindberg, Heiner Goebbels, Zygmunt Krauze, Paweł Szymanski and her radio programme Witold Lutosławski – SelfPortrait was selected by the Polish Radio for the Prix Italia, 2004. She has also co-organised concerts at the Polish Radio Concert Studio, including Hommage à Witold Lutosławski during the Warsaw Autumn 1994. Since 2013 she has represented the Polish Radio at the International Rostrum of Composers (IRC).

The recordings she recommended – Not I by Agata Zubel in 2013, Canzon de‘ baci by Andrzej Kwiecinski in 2014, brut by Artur Zagajewski in 2017 – were selected works (the highest IRC award).

ruth jakobi Ruth Jakobi studied Music, French and Education in Hamburg, Germany and Lyon, France. During her studies, she was employed part-time as the international relationship officer at Hamburg University for Music and Theatre.

In 2001, she accepted the post of the executive officer at the foundation “Podium for Young Musicians”, offering stage experience and capacity building workshops for emerging professional musicians.

Since September 2003 Ruth Jakobi has been employed as Secretary General of the European Music Council (EMC) and carried out this function partly in dual leadership with Simone Dudt. She has been invited as a lecturer to international conferences and to cultural management study courses. Ruth also served as jury member for youth music competitions and for the Fair Music Award. From 2006-2008 she was an elected member of the Board of EFAH – European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (today Culture Action Europe).

Photo by Eric Between 2010 and 2016 Ruth stepped back from her function as EMC Nieuwland Secretary General to mainly take care of her three children. During this time she continued working on special projects for the EMC and also worked as a freelance consultant for international project management.

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Peder karlsson Peder Karlsson studied classical composition, arranging and guitar at The Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, from 1984, and graduated in 1989 with a post-graduate Diploma in vocal group performance. As a member of the Swedish a cappella group “The Real Group” between 1984-2010, Peder made over 2000 concerts all over the world and 16 CDs. Between 2011-2014, Peder served as Musical Director for the XXL vocal group “Perpetuum Jazzile”, Slovenia.

Since January 2015, Peder teaches Artistic Leadership in rhythmic choir music at Royal Academy of Music in Aalborg, Denmark, since January 2016 with the title ”Honorary Professor”. Since March 2017, Peder serves as the chairman of the non-profit organization End Ecocide Sweden.

Pascale Labrie With a classical music and arts management background, Pascale Labrie began her professional life in 1998 by organizing concert tours throughout Canada with the Jeunesses Musicales international movement in Canada, before becoming Director of Communications and then Director of the Montreal International Music Competition. She then started in 2006 as an Executive Producer with the French-speaking Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (SRC) in Montreal and from 2012 to 2014 worked as Chef d’antenne of the classical channel Musiq’3 at the Radio-télévision belge de la Fédération WallonieBruxelles (RTBF). After a short trip back to Montreal as Chief of Content for classical music at SRC, she decided to leave the Belle Province once again to embrace a new challenge at the European Broadcasting Union as Head of Music since 1 July 2015. Her musical hero is J.S. Bach and she loves the New York Times cooking app.

dr srirak plipat Dr Srirak Plipat is Executive Director of Freemuse, an independent international organization defending freedom of artistic expression.

Dr Plipat was Director for Asia Pacific at Transparency International (TI) in Berlin and Director of International Mobilisation Programme at Amnesty International in London. He served as a member of the Working Group for the Establishment of the ASEAN Human Rights Mechanisms, and co-founded the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR) Network in Thailand. Dr Plipat worked as a consultant at the World Bank Institute’s Civic Participation and Training Programme in Washington, DC. He holds a PhD in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

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ferdinand richard Ferdinand Richard has been the founder/director of A.M.I. association, which proposes numerous training workshops, artists residences, festivals, a cultural micro-businesses incubator, etc.

FR is a founder-member of La Friche Belle-de-Mai/Marseille since 1992, and has been its deputy-director for 8 years. Since 2009, he is the current president of The Roberto Cimetta Fund, dedicated to artists and cultural activists mobility in the Euro-Arab-Middle East relationship, and since 2017 he is the founderpresident of Global Grand Central, an international and interactive digital platform dedicated to presenting artists works and processes. From 2010 to 2015, he was the first coordinator of the International Fund for Cultural Diversity/UNESCO experts panel.

Since 2018, he is expert for Mobility First!, the Asia Europe Foundation program dedicated to the artists and cultural professionals mobility between Europe and Asia. FR is active in many more initiatives, professional music making and activities promoting intercultural dialogue and projects.

Mihály Rosonczy-Kovács Mihály Rosonczy-Kovács is a folk violinist and historian. His main field is applied music diplomacy. He is the founder of the Hungarian FolkEmbassy (authentic folk string music band) and the non-governmental Philidor Institute, which functions as the international office of the Fonó Music Hall in Budapest.

Mihály is a member of the Romengo band (oláh-gipsy music) and performed in 35 countries of 3 continents. His own projects aim to 1) strengthen European identity and that of the V4 countries through highlighting common musical heritage and 2) underline the role of the Roma play in enriching Hungarian culture. His latest music diplomacy project took place in Berlin this May: “Hungary in Europe – Europe in Hungary, our common culture in melodies and motifs”. His collection of Hungarian folk songs “The sun has risen on the sky” was published four times, and in 2017 it was awarded with the title Book of the Year by the Magyar Napló publishing house and Junior Prima awarded.

Gerhard Sammer Gerhard Sammer was born in Austria. He has a master’s degree in Music Education as well as in Mathematics/Computer Sciences. Gerhard Sammer has held the post of Professor for Music Pedagogy in Germany since 2004 with a special focus on music teacher training for all school forms. He works as a board member of the European Association for Music in Schools since 2005; since 2015 he is President of the EAS and involved in many international projects, co-operations and activities. He is currently a member of the Music Advisory Board of the Austrian Federal Chancellery and of the Province of Tyrol.

Additionally he works in orchestral conducting and is artistic director. Beside this he is also guest conductor with Austrian, Italian and Polish orchestras and worked with a numerous soloists with international reputation. In the last 20 years he realized nearly 140 first performances of new orchestra pieces and produced more than 10 CDs with contemporary music.

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Ian Smith Ian Smith studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London before being appointed as Co-Principal horn with the Scottish National Orchestra in 1971. He worked with several orchestras and as the Founder/Director of Scottish Brass.

Ian joined the UK Musician’s Union in 1993. He created a new department for Folk and Traditional Music whilst at the MU and a member of the Executive Board of the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund. In 2005 Ian was appointed as Head of Music at the Scottish Arts Council, then moving to Creative Scotland as Head of Music and Intellectual Property in 2010. He retired from that post in 2016. Ian is currently the President of the European Music Council and the Treasurer and Executive Board member of the International Society for the Performing Arts. In July, Ian joined the board of Cryptic, who produce Sonica, the international sonic arts festival. Most recently, Ian has been involved with SafeMuse in securing a residency for a young Iranian singer/songwriter to work safely in Glasgow, Scotland, where Ian is based.

Bârd Vegar Solhjell Bård Vegar Solhjell is the chairman of the board of The Council of Music Organisations in Norway, a position he has held since May 2017.

He was recently appointed CEO of WWF Norway. Until the last general election he was an MP, and also twice a Government Minister; Minister of Education, and later Minister of Environment.

Photo by Marius Nyheim Kristoffersen

Linnéa Svennson Linnéa Elisabeth Svensson is a sustainability events consultant and producer based in Oslo - soon to be the European Green Capital.

She runs her own business which offers sustainability consultancy and certifications as well as event production. Projects in 2018 include amongst others; head of conference and sustainability for by: Larm, environmental advisor for Bislett Alliance / Diamond League Bislett Games and project management of the urban development conference Oslo Urban Arena.

She has worked with events in Oslo, especially festivals eg. Oya Festival, for almost 20 years, with special focus on business development and environment / sustainability. In the past five years, she has worked in depth with the respective areas in the field of environment -especially procurement, waste management, organic food, energy, HSE and mobility.

Linnéa has written several guides and handbooks for festivals and sporting events in the area of Sustainability and Sponsorship.

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Kati Taal Kati is working as a folklore specialist in South-East of Estonia. She studied Estonian and comparative folklore. Since 2008 she has been actively involved in the Estonian Folklore Council, which is a national center for folklore and folk culture and is a member of the International Council of Folklore Festivals and Folklore Organizations (CIOFF). Since March 2014, she is President of CIOFF Estonia.

Kati also works as a heritage guide in South-East of Estonia and always combines guiding with stories about local people, their traditions and secrets these places and lands hide in them.

Manu théron Born in 1969, raised between Algeria and Marseilles, he studied piano and singing since early childhood. In southern Italy as well as in Bulgaria, Manu travelled more than 4 years discovering traditional singing and polyphony and, most of all, getting along with singers and choirs, learning from them listening discipline and musical behaviour in a singing collective.

Back in Marseilles in 1995 he founded several vocal bands that performed Occitan traditional repertoire and compositions throughout the world, creating a new polyphonic genre that spread out all over southern France, inspiring many vocal ensembles since then. The most famous are “Gacha Empega” and “Lo Còr de la Plana”. Passionate and active, Manu Théron’s performances and teachings are inspired by popular Mediterranean singing, and often require frame percussions together with vocal expression.

Therese Birkeland Ulvo Therese Birkelund Ulvo is a Norwegian composer. Ulvo studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music from 2002 to 2008 and at the Guildhall School of Music in 2005.

From 2010 to 2012, Ulvo was part of MIC Music Information Centre Norway’s international launch programme INTRO-composer. Ulvo was bestowed with the award De unges Lindemanpris in 2015. At the 63rd International Rostrum for Composers in Wroclaw, Poland, held in May 2016, Ulvo’s work “Shadow and Shields” was presented.

As the first of a total of six Norwegian composers, Ulvo was in October 2017 presented as a participant of the new KUPP-programme, an international developmental- and network-programme for young aspiring Norwegian composers.

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Heidi wiley Heidi is the Executive Director of the European Theatre Convention since 2009.

Prior to that she produced and managed international theatre companies and artists incl. the Tiger Lillies and Victoria Thierree Chaplin. She co-produced performances at major European and Asian festivals and venues.

As cultural manager, she worked for European cultural networks and programmes like Erasmus and European Film Promotion and collaborated with education and scientific institutions as consultant for international cooperation projects. As studied cultural scientist, she holds degrees from La Sorbonne and University of Lüneburg.

sina winter

Photo by Henrik Fjørtoft

An underground black metal musician from Tehran was in 2013 invited to the Norwegian Inferno Festival. The black metal genre is illegal in Iran, so his live performance with Norwegian musicians at Inferno was his first live performance ever. In 2014 he returned to Norway as the first SafeMUSE residence artist, hosted by the film company Gammaglimt (now Upnorth Film). He has since lived and worked in Norway.

From the Vastland started as a one-man band in 2010. His music is “old school black metal” with a hint of oriental influences.

Since his arrival in Norway Sina has released two albums and one EP. He was nominated for the Metal Hammer’s “Global Metal Award” in 2014. He is one of the main characters in the acclaimed documentary Blackhearts (2016), presented at a wide range of festivals and screenings around the world.

sara whyatt Sara Whyatt is a campaigner and researcher on freedom of artistic expression and human rights, notably as director of PEN International ‘s freedom of expression program for over 20 years and previously as a coordinator in Amnesty International’s Asia Research Department. At PEN she worked with its global membership of mobilising its campaigns for writers at risk as well as on thematic issues. In 2013 she took up freelance consultancy, working on projects including for Arts, Rights Justice/ Culture Action Europe for whom she is an advisor. She has also worked on projects including for Freemuse, PEN, and the International Freedom of Expression Exchange. She is the author of the chapter on freedom of artistic expression for UNESCO’s 2018 Global Report on the Convention on the Diversity of Culture.

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Idea Hub International IVME Composition Contest Flemish Music Council, presented by Mieke Vanhaute

Communication with atypical audiences & partners in music & culture EMC Fellow, presented by Anastasija Zihareva

International Student Fora European Association of Music in School, presented by Thomas de Baets & Gerhard Sammer

EUROPA CANTAT Festival European Choral Association, presented by Sonja Greiner

6th World Forum on Music International Music Council, presented by Silja Fischer

Live Music Now Pathways Live Music Now Scotland, presented by Carol Main

Acoustics for Music Activity Norwegian Music Council, presented by Marius Dale Romslo

Validation of Acquired Experience and Recognition of Skills Plate-Forme InterrĂŠgionale, presented by StĂŠphane Grosclaude

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cONCERTS Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola

Photo by Andreas Ulvo

A critically acclaimed duo blending tradition and experimentation, Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola display an inspired virtuosity, inventiveness and interplay in their music, which explores the sonic and expressive possibilities of their instruments to the maximum.

Their sound is based on Scottish traditional music from the Highlands, augmented by influences from Scandinavian traditions and experimental music. Like a conversation effortlessly flowing between light and dark, the music possesses an exceptionally wide emotional range, complemented by an open and improvisatory approach where both instruments take the lead as well as merge into one sound. Their album was released in autumn 2013, receiving glowing reviews across the board, including 5/5 and the prestigious Top of the World award in Songlines Magazine. The duo has toured extensively including a headline gig at Celtic Connections 2015. Their second album, Widdershins, was released in autumn 2016 to great reviews.

Katarina Barruk Katarina Barruk has established herself as a well-known and much appreciated artist within the Sami community in the Nordic countries. She writes her own texts in Umesaami and composes music influenced by jazz and pop, but always with the Sami elements present. Katarina has worked together with the arranger and producer Frode Fjellheim and published her first album Bรกruos in 2015, which she describes as unhidden, open, apparent. Katarina works with her music both at home by the piano as well as together with her band, and is touring both in the Nordic countries and internationally.

Photo by Helleday Arts

Katarina lives in Ubmeje (Umeรฅ) and is one of the few persons who speak Umesaami fluent. In 2012 she was awarded Young Sami Artist of the Year at the festival Riddu Riddu.

Arnljot Nordvik is a young musician from Hรกrsttak (Harstad). Since 2010 he has worked with a variety of musical styles within genres such as pop, folk music, jazz, hip-hop, soul and rock. He is presently working together with Katarina Barruk, both in her band but also as a duo.

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Norwegian Girls Choir The Norwegian Girls Choir, directed by Anne Karin Sundal-Ask, is a choir with proud traditions and high artistic standards. The choir is composed of singers from the Oslo area who are admitted through auditions.

The Norwegian Girls Choir is an independent continuation of The Norwegian Broadcasting Company’s Girls Choir, which was established in 1947. The choir has long been a strong institution in Norwegian cultural life, and it has fostered a number of great singers, musicians and artists.

The choir’s ambition is to be a learning environment that helps the girls develop into independent musicians and artists, with strong musical expressiveness that can touch both the audience and the singers themselves. In this environment the girls develop their understanding, experience, and interest in music, with some subsequently performing at a high professional level. Norway’s foremost contemporary composers have written new music for the choir, leading to acclaimed performances of these works across Norway as well as abroad.

Anne Karin Sundal-Ask has been the conductor and artistic director of The Norwegian Girls Choir since the spring of 2005. She has training as a conductor, flutist, and music teacher. In addition to directing The Norwegian Girls Choir, she teaches conducting at The Norwegian Academy of Music. She has also served as a judge for international choir competitions. Sundal-Ask has received several prizes and awards for her work, and has led a number of choirs to victories in international competitions. She is committed to the pursuit of excellence, and is inspiring as a leader.

Birger Mistereggen is one of Norway’s most versatile percussionists with a speciality in Norwegian drum tradition. He studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music and has a background in the Military music, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, groups such as Vamp, Kvarts, and in a variety of projects with Norwegian folk musicians. Birger teaches at Foss high school and is a lecturer at the University of Tromsø. His own performance ”Slagferdig” was premiered in 2017 at Riksscenen.

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Hamid Sakhizada Hamid Sakhizada is a highly acknowledged musician from Afghanistan, specialized in the Hazara traditional music and the instrument dambora. The dambora is a popular percussive two stringed instrument in the Hazara community in witch Hamid belongs. He is a renowned musician with a huge fan base in Afghanistan and abroad. He has represented Afghanistan in the 2012 ABU Annual Song Contest, the Asian version of Eurovision Song Contest. He has had several appearances on Afghan television, especially after 2008 when he came second in the Afghan Star, a variant of the American Idol series. He has performed in South Korea, Australia, Turkey, Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates. He has also produced three albums. It was from some communities demanded that he should withdraw from the Afghan Star competition, and he had to be escorted from the venue due to severe threats. After this, he experienced being hit by a car without registration plates, and this case was later dismissed by the police. In June 2015 two of his music students, Arif Shadab and Dilshad Baba, were kidnapped by the Taliban. Shadab was tortured and then released, while Baba was killed. Then in January 2016 unknown men made their way into Sakhizadas home when his wife was there alone. It was after this couple decided to take cover and look for alternatives to get out of Afghanistan. Sakhizada came to Safe Haven Harstad in 2016.

Marthe Valle was born in Harstad in 1982 and is a Norwegian singer songwriter, presently living in Bergen. In October 2005 her first CD was released, It’s A Bag Of Candy that she won Spellemannprisen 2005 for as best newcomer. She was also nominated as best female artist the same year Her latest releases are Forever Candid (2008), Fant fram (2014) and Alt som ikkje kan sies (2017).

Håvard Lund was born in 1970 in Gildeskål and is a Norwegian musician and composer, playing clarinet and saxophone. Lund got his Examen artium on the Music Program at Mosjøen vgs. (1989) and was a graduate on the Jazz Program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium in 1993 and was widely recognized as the saxophonelayer in Farmers Market (1991–1996), Frode Fjellheim’s Jazzjoik Ensemble (1991–1998), and Trygve Seim Ensemble (1991–2012). During 1996– 2002 he composed music for a series of theatre plays as for Torshovteateret, Trøndelag Teater, NRK Radioteateret and Det Norske Teatret.

From 2003 to 2008 he played for Forsvarets Musikkorps Nord-Norge as clarinettist, and was festival artist of the yard of Festspillene in Northern Norway in 2006. In addition he was Artist in residence at Music in Troms 2007–2008, where he has been in a permanent position as a regional musician after 2008. Lund has also participated in numerous recordings, including with Decoy, Fotefar, Trygve Seim, Frode Fjellheim and Anja Garbarek.

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Lecture/Concert In the concert lecture/lecture concert, we want to problematize the idea of living cultural heritage. Is living cultural heritage only among the practitioners, or are archive expressions also viable/alive? In which ways?

What expressions have been chosen today as living cultural heritage, and which were chosen by the previous generations on what basis? Is there an opening for today’s practitioners to make choices other than those taken earlier? The questions are part of the discussion about the streamlining that has happened (and may and maybe has to happen) when we institutionalize the music and dance in our educations, in the context of competitions and as part of the professionalised music industry.

The researchers at Sff, Norwegian Centre for Traditional Music and Dance, will contribute to the spoken word, while musicians and dancers will show the working process of how they approach an archive material and various ways they can play with this material. The practitioners will show different possibilities / interpretations of a music and dance material (a melody or a dance) - and show the stylistic and aesthetic differences.

About us: The Norwegian Centre for Traditional Music and Dance includes one of the largest archives of Northern Europe’s traditional music and dance. The archive consists of films, videos and sound recordings from early 1900. Today’s practices is continuously documented. The archive is a basis for research, education, transmission and revitalisation.

From The Vastland

Photo by Henrik Fjørtoft

“From the Vastland” started out as a one-man project fronted by Sina in late 2010. “From the Vastland” rose from the ashes of the Iranian black metal band “Sorg Innkallelse” (a band with 10 album releases in 6 years). The first album of “From The Vastland” was released in 2011, named “DARKNESS Vs. LIGHT, THE PERPETUAL BATTLE”. The album was influenced by Persian history and mythology and this image remains with the band to this day - ancient, epic stories of good and evil, myths and legends, combined with atmospheric, blastbeating, old school black metal with a slight touch of oriental influences. In 2013 “From the Vastland” signed with the Norwegian label “Indie Recordings” and released the second full-length album “KAMARIKAN”, followed by a live performance at the Inferno Festival in Oslo the same year. Front man Sina was joined on stage by well-known musicians such as Vegar “Vyl” Larsen (Keep of Kalessin/Gorgoroth – live), André “Tjalve” Kvebek (1349/Pantheon I/Den Saakaldte) and Thor Anders “Destruchtor” Myhren (Morbid Angel/Myrkskog).

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