Morten Norheim is a musician and teacher working in the field of contemporary and improvised music. Morten can be seen with groups such as Det Skandaløse Orkester, Ensemble Eon, Jór Saxophone Quartet, Moron Police.
Morten has been the GRS Administrator since 2017 in a part-time position at the Faculty of Art, Music and Design. His different roles and interests has enabled him to work in the cross-section between education and research development.
Morten currently works as a digital solution architect for the faculty and aims to facilitate new immersive multi-modal teaching methods and experiences.
Contact: [email protected] Website: https://mortennorheim.com
Disclaimer: Morten is solely responsible if something (technical) goes wrong during the event.
Morten Norheim, GRS Administrator & Music4Change Advisor
Eirik Aurlund Sæle is a music therapist who received his master’s degree in music therapy at The Grieg Academy – Department of Music, University of Bergen, Norway. As well as engaging in music therapy research, he also works as a freelance videographer, photographer and colorist.
Eirik Aurlund Sæle, videographer & editor
Emiliano Ortíz Benítez (1996- ) began his musical studies as a pianist at the National Conservatory of Music of Mexico, where he later studied composition, and he recently finished his Master degree in composition at the University of Bergen. His music has been premiered in Mexico, Japan, India, and Norway, by ensembles like Quasar Saxophone quartet, Edvard Grieg Vocal Ensemble, BIT20 ensemble, EON ensemble, and Ensamble de Música Contemporánea del CNM. In addition to his academic focus, he has also worked as a composer in contemporary dance and theater productions; in documentaries, short films, TV commercials, as a film-composer assistant and also as a sound technician in festivals and events within the University of Bergen.
Emiliano Ortíz Benítez, technical director
Davide Bertolini is a musician, producer & sound engineer known for his work with bands such as Kings of Convenience, Kjetil Møster, Enslaved, Eivind Austad Trio. Davide is integral for making all of your voices heard during the event.
Davide Bertolini, sound engineer
Thomas De Ridder is research coordinator for the administration at the KMD faculty at UiB, and follows up processes around externally funded projects, ranging from educational projects to research and artistic research projects. As research adviser, Thomas is also the local contact point for the Grieg Academy – The department of Music. He has a background as old Norse philologist.
Thomas De Ridder
Jill Halstead is a writer and practitioner. She gained her Ph.D in 1995 from the University of Liverpool and since then has worked extensively with questions of gender and socio-economic class in relation to creativity and musical participation. As a teenager, she taught herself to play the guitar and devoted most of her time to playing extremely loud rock music whenever and wherever she could. From the 1980s she worked professionally as a performer, director and composer, eventually specializing in participatory performing arts projects with a range of marginalised communities in the UK.
Recent projects include composing music for film and dance theatre works which explore the social stigmatization of aging and (dis)ability. Since 2018 she has led the artistic research project Social Acoustics: Sound, Body, Community, with Prof Brandon LaBelle, a project which explores listening as a social practice. The project’s most recent exhibition, a residency at Bergen Kjøtt August 2022, focused on the notion of the concert, to elaborate the scene of live music as one of collaboration, cooperation, and entanglement.
Jill is a professor of music at the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen and leader of the Grieg Research School in Interdisciplinary Music Studies, a regional research consortium of five universities on the west coast of Norway. She also leads Music4Change (2022-2025) an EU funded transnational cooperation partnership which aims to incorporate key sustainable development goals in postgraduate music education.