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When Birds Sing of Loss...is a dance collection of a daughter’s memoir, intimate grief gatherings, and the circulating affect of a dancing body.
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Utstein Kloster
- I want to further develop myself as a conductor.
- I want to further develop myself as a conductor with the opportunity for practical experience with professional musicians, focusing on symphonic music.
- Since there are so many fun and skilled people on the faculty, I thought that a couple of years here could make me more fun and skilled as well.
- Don't be afraid to challenge and explore music in different ways. After all, this is the time to do it!
- At the Faculty of Performing Arts I quickly got to know many great fellow students both in the cello and other sections.
- My dream is to make a difference in gender equality within the cultural environment
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Two ensembles won the 25 000 NOK from Skjeies chambermusic scholarship.
The joint services at UiS are organised into four divisions and headed by the prorector for research, the prorector for education, the prorector for innovation and society and the the director for organisation and infrastructure.
Voices of Women (VOW) Erasmus+ Educational Symposium for researchers, music educators, and graduate music students
October 10-11, 2024
Faculty of Performing Arts at the University of Stavanger, Norway
- With a classical education, I haven't felt confident enough to improvise in years.
- I dream of touring with my favorite jazz musicians like Joel Ross and Aaron Parks.
- I wanted to study under professor Ellen Nisbeth and explore Scandinavian traditions.
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My summer job: The flute student works voluntary with arranging seminars in her home country during the summers
News from the rector
Rector Klaus Mohn's speech at the university's doctoral creation ceremony on 28 October 2022.
Mezzosoprano Bettina Smith, Professor of singing at the Faculty of Performing Arts, University of Stavanger, is during the spring of 2022 initializing her project highlighting women in the arts.
The artistic research dance project All Tomorrows Parties by Brynjar Åbel Bandlien aims to investigate the impact that the HIV and Aids pandemic had on the Norwegian dance scene, the performing arts and cultural life in 1980s and 1990s.
Here you will find an overview of the staff in the faculty's theory section on jazz. Theodor Barsnes Obarheim is the head of the section.
Here you will find an overview of the staff in the faculty's classical theory section.
Here is a list over all employees in the section of classical piano and voice.
Here you will find an overview of the staff at the classic wind section.
The section consists of staff members for brass and woodwind.
The PhD programme in artistic research provides for the three research disciplines dance, music and documentary film.
We congratulate Professor Bettina Smith on her new release. Together with pianist Jan Willem Nelleke, Smith has released the CD "The Artist's Secret" with works for song and piano, written by female composers.
Our advisors help journalists find information or the right person to interview.
News from the rector
– I want you to know that I am very proud of you. The efforts you have made are an important reason why the University of Stavanger has kept afloat during the pandemic. You have all loyally and successfully complied with infection control measures. In addition, we have had some well-deserved luck. There is very little infection at our university.
UniPed is a unit that helps the University of Stavanger (UiS) achieve excellence in education. UniPed’s goal is to foster a culture of quality-centred teaching that benefits both students and staff.
The University Board is elected for the period of 2019 to 2023.
The UiS-IT department consists of 45 employees who provide IT services for 1600 employees and 12000 students.
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Employees and students at the Faculty of Performing Arts host up to 200 concerts and performances per year. Here is an overview over upcoming events.
The International Office provides strategic and operational support and advice to the management, academic groups and students regarding internationalisation of educational programmes, mobility and partnerships.
NETTOP is a department that develops digital teaching and e-learning in collaboration with the academic divisions at the university. We create everything from complete online courses to games, videos, apps, podcasts, simulations and other digital tools that contribute to learning.
Our bachelor in dance is a performing study focusing on contemporary dance. It is a three-year education that prepares you for a professional working life as a performing and co-creating dance artist or for further studies in dance.