Sociomusicology: Intensive Nordic Master Course in Finland

4/7/25

Intensive Nordic Master Course in Finland

The Nordic Network for Music Education (NNME) has offered joint intensive Master courses for decades that have contributed to developing a shared professional community across Nordic and Baltic countries. Today we are excited to announce that we have funding to offer a course in 2025.

The 2025 NNME course is titled Socially, Ecologically, and Ethically Responsible Music Education and will be hosted by University of the Arts Helsinki at the Kallio-Kuninkala villa on 3-7 November 2025. Prof. Marja-Leena Juntunen is the local course host.

Grants are available to cover the costs of travel, lodging, and food for a limited number of participants.

This will be an outstanding opportunity for Master students in Music Education from across the Nordic and Baltic countries to present the concepts and ongoing work on their final thesis or project and obtain useful feedback.

Participants will also have the chance to learn traditional songs and folk dances, make music with peers from other Nordic and Baltic countries, and learn from presentations related to the conference theme by Katya Thomson, Marja-Leena Juntunen, Heidi Partti, David G. Hebert, and others. Additionally, there will be traditional sauna, hikes, shared meals, and a visit to the Ainola, the home of Sibelius.

Here are links for more information about NNME and its courses:

https://www.hvl.no/en/collaboration/networks/nordic-network-for-music-education/

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781351045995/advancing-music-education-northern-europe-david-hebert-torunn-bakken-hauge

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kallio-Kuninkala_-_Sibelius_Academy_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg

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Welcome to Sociomusicology

For over 15 years (since 2007), this website has offered musings on contemporary society and its music by David G. Hebert, PhD. He is a sociomusicologist specializing in global music education who has held academic positions with universities on five continents. Dr. Hebert is now a tenured full Professor with Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen. There he leads the Grieg Academy Music Education (GAME) research group and manages the multinational government-funded Nordic Network for Music Education, which organizes annual intensive Master courses and exchange of teachers and students across eight countries. He is also an Affiliated Professor with University of the Faroe Islands and an Honorary Professor in China with the Education University of Hong Kong.

Professor Hebert's research applies an international-comparative perspective to issues of pluralism, identity, and cultural relevance in music education, as well as processes by which new music traditions emerge and change - both sonically and socially - as they are adopted into institutions. Born in the 1970s, he is among the most widely-published and globally-active music scholars of his generation (h-index:20; i10-index:30), with professional activities in an average of 8 countries per year across the past decade (2008-2020).