The Grieg
Academy Music Education (GAME)
research group has been achieving so much across recent years, exciting to see:
many publications, grants, lectures, workshops and performance activities.
Recently we
have meetings about once a month, and lately these are hybrid events with
participants gathering in person in Bergen, Norway as well as online from North
America, Asia, and Africa. Many GAME members plan to give presentations at the 2026 ISME World Conference
in Montreal.
Pictured above is renowned composer Edvard Grieg, the most famous person from the city of Bergen, where the GAME research group (named for his legacy) is based.
Here is a
photo from a GAME research group meeting (3 October 2025), which included many
special guests. In person, we were joined by one of the GAME founders, Steinar
Sætre, who brought guests from Uganda that are in the CABUTE project, Music
subject leader Dr. Nicholas Ssempiija, PhD student Erisa Walubo, Vincent Muhindo,
and Hellen Hasahya (new Master students who were traveling outside Uganda for
the very first time), as well as Kjersti Elisabet Lea, a recent department head
at University of Bergen. PhD student Knut Eysturstein was also here from University
of the Faroe Islands. The event was hosted by HVL PhD student Kristian Iversen
with support from our HVL postdoc Dr. Karan Choudhary, and included online
guests from the CABUTE project in Uganda as well as Education University of
Hong Kong (EdUHK) and other institutions.
Online we
were joined by HVL Associate Professor David T. Johnson, Julia Katarzyna Leikvoll (University of Bergen), Craig Resta (Kent
State University, USA), Sangmi Kang (Eastman School of Music, USA), CABUTE
postdoc Milton Wabyona (Makerere University, Uganda), CABUTE postdoc James
Isabirye (Kyambogo University, Uganda), ISME Routledge Book Series Assistant
Editor Esther Chunxiao Zhang (EdUHK), recent PhD graduate and Cantonese opera expert
Kimmie Sin-Yee Ma (EdUHK), and Yuki Morijiri (Tokyo Gakugei University). The
event featured insightful presentations by two PhD students who are nearing
completion: Knut Eysturstein and Erisa Walubo, a stimulating presentation by
Craig Resta on approaches to historical research in music education, and some brief
introductory presentations of thesis concepts by new CABUTE Master students Vincent
Muhindo, and Hellen Hasahya. Michael Chi-Hin Leung (EdUHK) also gave an
interesting presentation on his music education technology research.