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Professor Merja Stenroos has been awarded the most prestigious grant from the EU, the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant. It is the first time a UiS research project has been awarded a grant from the ERC.
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
The aim of the programme is to stimulate childist research across the academy, test and evolve the concept of childism, and inform childist social and political justice processes.
- 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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The library now gives you access to a new online resource for students in history and related fields.
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My summer job: The flute student works voluntary with arranging seminars in her home country during the summers
From 2023, all applicants to studies at the Faculty of Performing Arts are required to upload a valid passport or national ID card to confirm citizenship. This is due to the introduction of tuition fees for applicants with citizenship outside the EU/EEA or Switzerland.
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Music production and recording was an opportunity to increase their experiences in the field
Here you can read about the auditions for studies in music performance. You will also find information regarding which day the various instruments will conduct their auditions in week 10.
Applies to studies starting in Autumn 2024.
Reflections from the Green Transitions Fellows at The Greenhouse 2022
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The Greenhouse was established as a research group in 2017 and quickly distinguished itself worldwide as a leading professional environment for environmental humanities. On its fifth anniversary, The Greenhouse is moving on, now as a research centre at UiS.
Information about our current research projects and research networks
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.
Attendance requirements at the Faculty of Performing Arts (UK) are an elaboration of the course descriptions' work requirements, which entail compulsory attendance; Regulations relating to studies and examinations at the University of Stavanger § 3-8.3. These rules are intended to address the particularity of UK performing studies.
The PlaySpace (PS) editorial team now calls for new submissions dedicated to artistic research focusing on decolonization.
Do you need help? Here you can see who helps with what in the study administration at the Faculty of Performing Arts.
Students and staff at the Faculty of Performing Arts can book rooms for individual activities at the faculty.
At Campus Bjergsted, you need your own key tag to get around inside the buildings.
A digital exhibition chronicles the reintroduction of beavers in Scandinavia 100 years ago.
The PhD programme in artistic research provides for the three research disciplines dance, music and documentary film.
Why are Vikings and the Norse past increasingly popular?
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.
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UiS employee Roderick Dale had hardly imagined that he would contribute to making video games when he studied Old Norse literature and Viking history. Now he has translated dialogue in the game Assassin's Creed Valhalla into Norse.
This and much more was discovered by Gunnar Nerheim when he dived deep into the history of the first Norwegians in Texas.
Principal investigator Eva Leibinger is associate professor at the Department of Education and Sports Science, Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Stavanger.