Copyright

Helen Julia Minors and Stefan Östersjö

Published On

2024-05-27

Page Range

pp. 307–314

Language

  • English

Print Length

8 pages

13. Conclusion

Probing, Positioning, (Re)Acting

Chapter of: Teaching Music Performance in Higher Education: Exploring the Potential of Artistic Research(pp. 307–314)

Contributors

Helen Julia Minors

(author)
Professor and Head of School of the Arts at York St John University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0212-9030

Helen Julia Minors is Professor and Head of School of the Arts at York St John University. She is also a Visiting Professor at Lulea Technical University. She was founder and original co-chair of EDI Music Studies Network. Her publications include Routledge Companion to Women's Musical; Leadership (Routledge, 2024) co-edited with Laura Hamer, Music, Dance and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2023), Artistic Research in Performance through Collaboration, co-edited with Martin Blain (Palgrave, 2020), Paul Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician, co-edited with Laura Watson (Routledge, 2019), Building Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Bridges: Where Theory Meets Research and Practice, co-edited with Pamela Burnard et al (BIBACC, 2017), and Music, Text and Translation (Bloomsbury, 2013). Recent articles and chapters have also appeared in the London Review of Education (2017/2019), Translation and Multimodality (Routledge, 2019), Opera and Translation (John Benjamins, 2020), Tibon (2022), Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions (2023) and Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology (2023).

Stefan Östersjö

(author)
Chaired Professor of Musical Performance at Piteå School of Music at Luleå University of Technology
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4704-5420

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.