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Lisa Dillan

Asso­ci­ate Pro­fess­or

Jazz, Improvised Music and Traditional Nordic Folk Music Department

Contact

Mobile: +4741545834
Teams: +4723367063
E-mail: lisa.dillan@nmh.no

Office

05035

Field of study

Improvisation

Department and discipline

Jazz and Improvised Music

Photo: Charlotte Wiig

Web

  • www.lisadillan.com
  • www.headstanding.wordpress.com
  • www.facebook.com/lisadillan

Research Areas / Expertise

  • Improvisation: Improvised training methods for improvisation, from classical and contemporary music to mainstream jazz and freely improvised music or other art forms.
  • Singer: Experimental/jazz/improvised/pop/contemporary.
  • Composer: Regular composing techniques, graphic/open scores, structures or modules to be used as improvising framework.
  • Intermedia and performance: The improvised meeting point between dance, music, light, video and fine arts.
  • ​Meta Competence: Meta training for improvising and performing artists. Techniques for increasing awareness, concentration, the improvised state of mind, listening, kinesthetic/tactile sense and visual orientation in a performative context.

Teaching

  • Vocal
  • Improvisation for students at improvisation/jazz, classical, composers, music pedagogic
  • Inter medial improvisation
  • Performance

Bio and CV

Lisa Dillan (b. 1969) is an improvising singer, composer and performing artist. She has worked with several leading pop, jazz- and improvisation musicians and dancers at home and abroad, touring in Russia, China, the USA, Europe and Scandinavia with her solo concerts and bands.

Lisa Dillan is an associate professor in improvisation, educated at the Norwegian State Academy of Music, where she also has taught improvisation, jazz singing and intermedia improvisation since 2001. She also does workshops, lectures and seminars on improvisation and intermedia art performing.

Main projects: Lisa Dillan Solo, Lisa Dillan Quite Quiet Project with Asbjørn Lerheim, Lisa Dillan improvised – ad hoc improvisation with various performers and musicians.

Background

Education

  • Romerike Folkehøgskole 1989/90 – Theater/directing
  • Grunnfag musikk, Bodø lærerhøgskole 1990/91 – Music
  • Bachelor Jazz, NMH 2000 – 50 % performing, 50 % pedagogical
  • Master's degree, Improvisation, NMH 2008

Professional experience

  • Singer, composer and performance artist since 1991
  • Teaching improvisation and singing at NMH since 2001

Publications

  • Album (CD): Change of habit Lisa Dillan and Asbjørn Lerheim (FXCD411) Asbjørn Erlend Lerheim ,  Lisa Dillan 2015
  • Sverm: et mikrounivers av dans og musikk Alexander Refsum Jensenius ,  Kari Anne Vadstensvik Bjerkestrand ,  Lisa Dillan ,  Victoria Johnson ,  Elisabeth Kjeldahl Nilsson ,  Maja Roel 2012
  • Sverm - mikrobevegelser og mikrolyd Alexander Refsum Jensenius ,  Kari Anne Vadstensvik Bjerkestrand ,  Victoria Johnson ,  Lisa Dillan ,  Maja Roel ,  Elisabeth Kjeldahl Nilsson 2012
  • Sverm: Visning og felles utprøving av mikrolyd/mikrobevegelser Alexander Refsum Jensenius ,  Kari Anne Vadstensvik Bjerkestrand ,  Lisa Dillan ,  Victoria Johnson ,  Maja Roel 2012
  • Sverm: foreløpige resultater Alexander Refsum Jensenius ,  Kari Anne Vadstensvik Bjerkestrand ,  Victoria Johnson ,  Lisa Dillan 2012
  • Album (CD, vinyl): Love me tender - the quite quiet way Lisa Dillan and Asbjørn Lerheim (FXCD377, FXLP377) Asbjørn Erlend Lerheim ,  Lisa Dillan 2012
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Projects Lisa Dillan participates in