This summer I will spend some time in Europe, North America, South America, and East Asia. Our music department in Norway is currently moving into its new campus, complete with a concert hall, rehearsal rooms, and recording studios, and I am hopeful that within the next few years we will launch new international-collaborative graduate programs with partner institutions. I am also working on developing a series of public recitals and guest lectures to propose for our new concert hall, as well as preparing a solo recital of my own, and eagerly look forward to upcoming performances as a singer with the Edvard Grieg Choir and Bergen Domkor.
At China Conservatory in Beijing, I will
do some lectures and help with planning an international conference for leaders of
music institutions (IMILF "World Summit on International Exchange"). Later, in Yokohama, Japan, I will chair a
session on “Sociological Approaches to Western Music in Japan” for the
International Sociological Association’s XVIII World Congress of Sociology: “Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for
Global Sociology”.
I look forward
to visiting family in the USA, and to giving a speech for the International
Society for Music Education (ISME) conference in
Brazil.
Recently I am busy
with coordinating the editing and revisions to a new book: Translation, Education,
and Innovation: Proceedings of the 25th Anniversary Conference of the
Nordic Association for Japanese and Korean Studies (Ed., David G. Hebert,
in preparation, 2014). I am also developing various large grant applications
and another book entitled Understanding Music in
Schools and Communities: A Global Perspective. That book will offer an international view of the changing landscape of music education in an
age of corporatization, globalism, and mass surveillance.
