Utovere:

Martin Sonderkamp  (dans)
Martin Sonderkamp (D), currently based in Cologne and Berlin, graduated from the School for New Dance Development, SNDO in Amsterdam. His background prior to dance was in visual arts, sports and music.  His choreographic and improvisatory work has been presented throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. He is currently collaborating with visual artist and film maker Darko Dragicevic.

Sonderkamp has collaborated extensively with musicians Andy Moore (The Ex), Alexander Waterman, Christopher Willams, Tony Buck, Tristan Honsinger, Anne LaBerge and Monica Page; and performed improvisation alongside artists such as Katie Duck, Sharon Smith, Amanda Miller, Steve Paxton, Jonathan Burrows, Meg Stuart, Benoit Lachambre, David Hernandez, David Zambrano, Julyen Hamilton, K J Holmes, Nina Martin, Kirstie Simson, K T Niehoff, Vincent Cacalano, Eileen Standley and Masako Noguchi.

As founding member of Mapgie Music Dance Company he has worked with musicians Michael Vatcher, Mary Oliver, The Ex, Michael Moore, Ab Baars, Wilbert de Joode, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Steve Heather, Alfredo Genovesi and Rozemarie Heggen.

Fred Frith (musikk)
Though the point of reference for many remains the iconic band Henry Cow, which he co-founded in 1968 and which broke up more than 35 years ago, Fred Frith has never really stood still for an instant.

In groups such as Art Bears, Massacre, Skeleton Crew, Keep the Dog, Tense Serenity, the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Eye to Ear, Cosa Brava, and most recently the Fred Frith Trio, he has always held true to his roots in rock and folk music, while exploring influences that range from Indian raga to the literary works of Eduardo Galeano and art installations by Cornelia Parker. 
The release of the seminal Guitar Solos in 1974 led to a life-long fascination with improvisation—as solo performer, partner of a huge and diverse range of players of all persuasions, and teacher.

Frith has developed a personal compositional language in works written for Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Modern, Concerto Köln, and ROVA Sax Quartet, for example. He has also composed extensively for film (with directors Sally Potter, Werner Penzel, Peter Mettler and Thomas Riedelsheimer among others) and for dance (notably in his more than twenty year collaboration with choreographer Amanda Miller). 

As a guitarist Frith has played on recordings by Brian Eno, The Swans, Violent Femmes, The Residents, Material, Half Japanese, Matthew and the Unfortunates, Johanna Borchert, and scores of others.

Fred currently teaches in the Music Department at Mills College in Oakland, California (renowned for over fifty years as the epicenter of the American experimental tradition), in the Musik Akademie in Basel, Switzerland, and as a visiting professor in the Universidad Austral in Valdivia, Chile.

More information: www.fredfrith.com/

Elisabeth Kjeldahl Nilsson (lys design)

Elisabeth is a freelance lighting designer based in Oslo, working with a broad variety of genres within performing arts. Since starting out with lights in 2003 she has in great extent collaborated with dancers and choreographers as well as live music acts. Among them Steffi Lund, Maja Roel, Solveig Styve Holte, Malin Hellkvist Sellén, Marianne Skjeldal, Mia Habib, Kari Anne Bjerkestrand, Dansdesign, Sissel Bjorkli, Ella Fiskum, Tove Sahlin. Working with theatre she has worked with creators like Mattias Brunn, Toril Solvang, Ada Berger, Nina Wester and Lars Oyno. Always eager to research new ways of collaborating and keen to apply norm critical perspectives, she gives workshops in lighting design and since 2015 she is teaching at Westerdahls Oslo ACT.  Elisabeth is educated from Stockholm Acadamy of Dramatic Arts. In addition to working with performing arts, she also work with outdoor education and as a guide. Employers include various Folk High Schools, The Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and Hvitserk. 

More information: www.nilssonlys.no

Veileder, Kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid:

Darla Crispin 
Dr. Darla Crispin – Associate Professor of Musicology, NMH BMus, MMus, PhD (London), Concert Recital Diploma (premier prix) GSMD
Hon RCM, FRSA

Darla Crispin is a Canadian musician and scholar who has been living, studying and working in the UK and continental Europe for over twenty years.  A pianist and musicologist, she is also among the pioneers in the field of artistic research in music. She has worked as a solo performer and accompanist, specialising in musical modernity in both her performing and her scholarship.  She gained her Doctoral Degree in Historical Musicology from King’s College London in 2004 with a thesis entitled ‘Re-reading Arnold Schoenberg’s String Quartets’.

Dr. Crispin’s career in the conservatoire sector has involved leadership of postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1997 to 2002, followed by a five-year tenure as Head of Graduate School at the Royal College of Music. In 2008, she was appointed one of the founding members of the team of Senior Research Fellows at the Orpheus Research Centre in Music (ORCiM), Ghent, Belgium and contributed much to the development of ORCiM before leaving in May 2013 to focus more on her individual writing projects.

Dr. Crispin’s most recent scholarly work focuses upon the ramifications of artistic research for musicians, scholars and audiences.  Publications on this theme include a collaborative volume with Kathleen Coessens and Anne Douglas, The Artistic Turn: A Manifesto (Orpheus Institute, September 2009).  She is currently working on a book entitled The Second Viennese School: Performance and Ethics and Understanding (Boydell & Brewer).  She is delighted to have joined the ‘Reflective Musician’ research team at NMH where there are so many opportunities to share ideas about keyboard performance and about the repertoire that is the subject of her book.

Radgiver:

Nina Malterud
Nina Malterud (b. 1951) has been working as a ceramic artist since 1975, in Oslo and later in Bergen. Rector at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB) 2002-2010 and Professor in Ceramics at KHiB 1994-2002. Responsible for the conference and publication series Sensuous Knowledge at KHiB 2004-2009. Member of the Steering Committee of the Norwegian Programme for Artistic Research 2003-2014. Engaged part time as Senior Adviser at Bergen Academy of Art and Design and Oslo National Academy of the Arts from 2012.

More information: www.ninamalterud.no