Context: speech - Teaching Music Performance: The Potential of Artistic Research

This presentation provides a brief background to artistic research in music in Sweden, and makes the argument that artistic research has become a source for renewal in the teaching and learning of music performance in teaching institutions in Sweden as well as in many other countries in Europe.

Stefan Östersjö is Chaired Professor of Musical Performance at Piteå School of Music, Luleå University of Technology. He received his doctorate in 2008 for a dissertation on musical inter­pretation and contemporary performance practice. In 2009, he became a research fellow at the Orpheus Institute. He is currently also a guest professor at Ingesund School of Music, Karlstad University of Technology, Professor II at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, and associate professor at DXARTS, University of Washington.