The Norwegian Academy of Music has four PhD programmes. One is the PhD program in Artistic Research. The artistic PhD project comprises an artistic production and a component documenting artistic reflection. PhD Programme in Music Education and Music Therapy and Performance Practice end in a thesis and public defense.
New PhD fellows
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Nine new PhD fellows started at the Norwegian Academy of Music in August, and one more will arrive in January. Here is the overview.
PhD in Artistic Research
- Anne Hytta with the project Torn loose and broken into pieces: Building blocks for reuse.
- Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi with the project Opera pop. A music album judged to mean.
- Giuseppe Pisano with the project Spontaneous Music Diffusions begins in January 2023.
PhD in Music Therapy
- Guro Høimyr with the project "Connecting people" – a study on school revue and mental health.
- Merete Holme with the project Music therapy for adolescents within the Child Welfare Services.
- Anne Kippenes with the project Music for health and wellbeing in Early Childhood Community Services in Bhutan.
PhD in Music Education
- Rut Jorunn Rønning with the project The school of music and performing arts, an art and knowledge-based organization?
- Gaute Storsve with the project Instrumental learning in upper secondary school.
PhD in Performance Practice
- Anders Veiteberg with the project Performing Bach's evangelist parts. An exploration of Baroque practice.
- Wilhelm Sollie with the project Arild Sandvold's organ works – in the light of Norwegian-German interpretation traditions (externally funded).
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