Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education

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. Östersjö is a leading classical guitarist specialising in the performance of contemporary music. As a soloist, chamber musician, sound artist, and improviser, he has released more than twenty CDs and toured Europe, the USA, and Asia. He has collaborated extensively with composers and in the creation of works involving choreography, film, video, performance art, and music theatre. Between 1995 and 2012 he was the artistic director of Ensemble Ars Nova, a leading Swedish ensemble for contemporary music. As a soloist he has worked with conductors such as Lothar Zagrosek, Péter Eötvös, Pierre-André Valade, Mario Venzago, and Andrew Manze.

Gilvano Dalagna is invited Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro (Portugal), invited lecturer at the Alfonso X El Sabio University (Spain) and integrated researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology/Center of Studies in Music and Dance (Portugal). He concluded a European PhD (Music, with Honours and distinction) at the University of Aveiro, including an Erasmus-funded period at the University College of London Institute of Education. His current research focuses on the links between performance (as creative practice) and music education. Between 2017 and 2019 he was postdoctoral fellow at the Instituto de Etnomusicologia/Centro de Estudos e Dança (SRFH/BPD/UI72/8071/2018) and invited lecturer at the Escola de Música e Artes do Espetáculo/Instituto Politécnico do Porto. Gilvano is currently a member of the coordinating team, quality manager and phase leader for the project REACT: Rethinking Music Performance in European Higher Education Music Institutions.

Jorge Salgado Correia is Associate Professor of Musical Performance and Artistic Creation at the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro. He received his doctorate in 2003 for a dissertation on musical performance as embodied socio-emotional meaning construction. In 2007, he became an integrated researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology/Center of Studies in Music and Dance (Portugal) coordinating, from then until July 2022, the research group “Creation, Performance and Artistic Research”. Jorge is a leading Flautist specialised in the performance of contemporary music but regularly playing other music genres like Portuguese popular music, Tango or Brazilian Chôro. As a soloist and chamber music player, he has participated in more than 12 CDs and toured all over Europe, Latin America, (Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica), USA, Asia (Macau, Shanghai), and Africa (Mozambique). As one of the 3 artistic directors and founders of Performa Ensemble, a leading Portuguese ensemble for contemporary music, Jorge has collaborated extensively with the most prominent Portuguese composers from 2010 until today, playing and recording the première of dozens of new compositions. As conductor and artistic director he founded in 2019 the project FLUTUA, a flute orchestra which has already commissioned about 12 new compositions for its specific formation and its transdisciplinar performance approach (music, dance and staging). Jorge is currently Editor-in-Chief of ÍMPAR-Online Journal for Artistic Research and the Coordinator of the project REACT: Rethinking Music Performance in European Higher Education Music Institutions, a strategic partnership involving five countries and financed by ERASMUS+. Jorge is Director of the Doctoral Program in Artistic Creation at the University of Aveiro, Portugal and president of the Portuguese Flute Association.