CEMPEs Projects and Activities

Tomorrow's musicians

CEMPE's goal is to strengthen music performance education for the benefit of tomorrow's musicians. Among our efforts to achieve this, we initiate, support and run research and development projects at the Norwegian Academy of Music, as well as collaboration projects with other institutions nationally and internationally. We also support innovation projects at the other national institutions for music performance education in Norway.

These projects and activities are related to the following four areas of focus.

Focus area 1: CEMPE develops knowledge about the transition from being a student at a higher music education institution to playing an active role in the global music community and labour market of the future and creates meeting points between students, institutions, the music industry and society.

• Institutionalizing Innovation: Uncovering the protean music student.
• Centre Stage.
• Job Shadowing.
• Career Day.
• Work-integrated Learning in the Music Academy (WILMA)

Focus area 2: CEMPE develops knowledge about how to better stimulate students’ artistic development and increase the quality and awareness of artistic research-based education to prepare students for playing an active role in the global music community and labour market of the future.

• Core Portfolio.
• Artistic research-based education.
• The Differential Play of Forces in Sound and Thought.
• Access All Areas
• Sounding Philosophy

Focus area 3: CEMPE will advance music performance learning, teaching and practising by exploring and developing collaborative models involving teachers and students.

• Kroppsliggjøring og gehørfokus i blåseopplæringen
• Across
• Symphonies Reframed.
• Educational cultures.
• Current Trends in Music Theory Pedagogy.
• The Collaborative Chamber Musician

Focus area 4: CEMPE will stimulate the development of a healthy and sustainable learning culture in higher music education and increase the awareness and knowledge of music students’ and musicians’ health and well-being.

• Learning and Emotions in a Chamber Music Rehearsal
• Musicians' and Performing Artists' Health and Performance conference

Over the last years, CEMPE has focused more on student involvement. By hiring two student partners in the team and allocating funds for student-driven projects, we have seen an increase in the engagement amongst students, both in general and in the number of projects with and for students.

Do you have a developmental project that you and your colleagues want to test out? CEMPE's Innovation Grant Scheme might be interested in supporting it.

Who can apply?

Instructors at Norwegian institutions offering higher music performance education may apply.

What kind of projects can apply?

All projects with a high degree of student involvement, aimed at increasing the quality and relevance of higher music performance education, may apply. We will prioritise projects that involve instructor collaboration, interdisciplinarity, or the use of digital resources. CEMPE can allocate a maximum of 50.000 NOK to each project.