20 January 2025
School of Music at Philharmonic Day
During the Philharmonic Day, Saturday, January 11 in the Concert Hall in Stockholm, the School of Music in Piteå at Luleå University of Technology participated, among other things, with the Orchestra Academy's premiere of the Greek master student Angelo Gamotso's work for chamber ensemble and electronics.
The Orchestra Academy, which leads to a master's degree, has been held annually since 2016 in close collaboration between the Royal College of Music and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Philharmonic Day is also an open house for young and old, and an effort to promote the future of music for generations to come. Jesper Nordin, a doctoral student at the Royal College of Music, has developed the interactive technology Gestrument, and on this day children and adults could control the concert hall organ in Studio Acusticum with hand movements.
The same organ was also controlled remotely by the TCP/IP Quartet, which consists of artistic researchers from the School of Music: PhD students Robert Ek and Mattias Petersson, Federico Visi, senior researcher, and Stefan Östersjö, professor and chair.
The quartet played the world premiere of Jostein Stalheim's Nine Sentiments for quartet and hyperorgan, a work developed within the framework of an international research project. Videos of works by Professor Åsa Unander-Scharin for dancing robots were also shown. At the same time, Professor Petter Sundkvist held a conducting workshop in Grünewald Hall where some 30 children had the chance to conduct an ensemble consisting of students from the Orchestra Academy.
In total, the Philharmonic Day had over 4000 visitors.
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