Our projects
Browse all our research projects as well as our development and international cooperation projects.
Search results: 50
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Active Acoustic Augmented Instruments
The project aims to create a seamless integration of acoustic and electronic sound into a single instrumental entity.
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01/2015 |
Academy of Finland |
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Active Acoustics – Smart Audio objects at the Interface of the Material and the Digital
Academy of Finland Key Project by Otso Lähdeoja, targets the development of pioneering audio applications combining structure-borne sound and sensor technology into a set of Active Acoustic Objects at the interface of the material and the digital.
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01/2016-12/2018 |
Academy of Finland |
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All the Truths We Cannot See: A Chernobyl Story
Follow the exceptional opera collaboration between Uniarts Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy and the USC Thornton School of Music.
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01/2020-05/2022 | |
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ArsADAPT – Artists for a sustainable future
ArsADAPT creates new approaches to music studies and musician's work by integrating the sustainable future agenda and related research into artistic work.
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09/2022-05/2023 |
The Strategic Research Council (SRC), ADAPT research programme (2018-2023) |
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Beautiful Past – Rethinking Stradivari Violins in the Aesthetics of European Neoclassicism (c. 1760-1814)
Research project (2015-2018) by Christina Linsenmeyer focuses on the canonization of Stradivari violins.
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01/2015-12/2018 |
Academy of Finland |
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Caring for Musically Gifted Children
In this project, Dr. Guadalupe López-Íñiguez seeks to support children gifted for music internationally, so that they can live as agentic and healthy individuals while pursuing desirable educational outcomes in caring ecosystems.
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09/2022-08/2027 |
The Scientific Council for Culture and Society, Research Council of Finland (Ref. 348591) |
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Classical Musicians’ Motivation to Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The research is about the challenges that classically-trained musicians faced during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and Latin America.
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01/2021-12/2022 | |
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Co-Connecting Early Childhood Music Education
Towards Systems Thinking in European Music Institutions
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10/2025-09/2028 | |
| Conservatory cultures | 01/2021-12/2025 |
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen) |
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Control and Tax: The Licensing and Taxing Systems of Music and Musicians in late Habsburg Prague, 1894–1918
The research project addresses neglected aspects of the music culture of Prague.
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Otto A. Malm Foundation & Kone Foundation |
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Controversial folklore
The project aims to renew archival research by interacting with discussions on cultural heritage and memory studies, developing the use of folklore materials, creating new community-based methods and considering the ethical responsibilities of archive-based scientific research and artistic activity.
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01/2026-12/2028 |
Kone Foundation |
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Creative Dialogue
Creative Dialogue is an international workshop for young instrumentalist and composers to learn new repertoire and experience the creative dialogue between music and its performers.
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01/2008-07/2023 | |
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EcoPolitics
Music education, professionalism, and eco-politics (EcoPolitics) interrogates the knowledge gap between music educators’ professional self-awareness in music education and their civic responsibilities as professionals in an age of uncertainty, eco-crises, and systemic ‘wicked problems’.
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09/2021-08/2025 |
Research Council of Finland |
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Finnish Doctoral Network for Music Research (MuToVe)
We coordinate a network of universities promoting multidisciplinary research.
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Folk_ME – Folk Music Education for Future Generations
Folk_ME - Folk Music Education for Future Generations is an innovative education project, what targets public education.
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10/2019-10/2021 |
Erasmus+ programme of the European Union |
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Forgotten bagpipes
"Forgotten Bagpipes - The Redesign of the Säkkipilli in Finland" aims at rebuilding the musical instrument and reviving the Finnish Piping tradition
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GaiaStage — machines are socio-material arrangements
An activist music research project that uses a zero-carbon performance stage for music and other performances.
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Global Music: SHUTTERSPEED –the play that never happened
Shutterspeed is a "radio play" album created in collaboration with the Porttiteatteri and the Global Music Department of Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki.
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03/2021-05/2021 | |
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Greatest Christmas Carols during the Covid-19 pandemic
This research project examines the experiences of church musicians from the time of the Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on the Greatest Christmas Carols -events.
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12/2020 | |
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Hear this, I’m a composer!
An inclusive arts education project gives children and young people the opportunity to compose for symphony orchestra instruments with the support of professional artists.
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01/2011 | |
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How to Live Together in Sound? Towards Sonic Democracy
The project intends to define our sonic environments as sonic commons.
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04/2023-12/2026 |
Kone Foundation |
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InChoir – Harmonising inclusion in choral music
InChoir investigates how inclusive choral practices are developed, sustained, and understood across different European contexts, and how they can contribute to more equitable and socially sustainable cultural and educational environments.
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01/2026-12/2027 |
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship of the European Union |
| International Prize for Artistic Research in Music | 01/2025 |
The prize is funded by the participating institutions in Doctors in Performance network |
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International orchestra education project
The Sibelius Academy and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland develop their orchestra education together on several levels.
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09/2022 |
Jane ja Aatos Erkon säätiö |
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Intersubjectivity in Music; the Perspective of Technological Mediation
Academy Research Fellow Otso Lähdeoja's research objective for the project (2018-2023) is to provide tools for a technologically augmented connection between musicians.
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01/2018-12/2023 |
Academy of Finland |
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Into the Deep – Folk music improvisation laboratory
The artistic research project explores the process of generating historically informed, contemporary folk music
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08/2024-12/2028 |
Koneen Säätiö |
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Junior Academy regional teaching visits
In this project Sibelius Academy teachers visit music institutions all over Finland. The purpose is to support young people's music hobbies.
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Kantele of the Runosong Culture and the Dialogue of Creativity
The project examines kantele improvisation within the Finnish-Karelian runosong culture, its various manifestations in its original context, and its possibilities and dimensions in modern times.
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09/2021-07/2023 | |
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LEAD! The Orchestra Project
In our international project, young musicians develop their leadership and communication skills as orchestral players with professionals.
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01/2019-12/2022 |
Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation |
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Letter Correspondence by Jean Sibelius and Aino Ackté
The research project examines correspondence between the years 1899 and 1936.
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01/2018-01/2020 |
The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland |
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Music for social impact: practitioners’ contexts, work, and beliefs
The research project aims to examine the growing number of participatory music-making activities being offered to marginilized groups.
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01/2020-03/2022 |
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Britain |
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Music, Memory and European Values
The project examines the consequences of totalitarianism for people and music communities through research and art (music), with a special focus on the Holocaust and Russian/Soviet totalitarianism, which has taken on new forms in the 2020s.
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03/2025-12/2026 |
The European Commission Citizenship, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme |
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Music, Nature and Environmental Crises
The research project by Juha Torvinen examines the significance of music to our general ecological awareness.
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01/2017-12/2019 |
Academy of Finland |
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Next Generation – alku soittoon
The project supports young children’s musical development at the early stages of their hobby with the help of families and pedagogue professionals.
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08/2022 |
Sibelius Academy Foundation |
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Olfactory Cultural Studies
The project organises exploratory workshops on how olfactory phenomena structure people’s everyday life and how they are conceptualised and made meaningful. The workshops are funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS).
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01/2023-06/2025 |
NordForsk, the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS). |
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Performing the Political: Public Pedagogy in Higher Music Education
The project aims to expand the notion of the political in music professionalism by advancing eco-artistic imagination and transformative systems thinking within higher music education.
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09/2023-08/2027 |
The Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities, Research Council of Finland |
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Politics of Equality in Finnish Opera
The research project by Liisamaija Hautsalo explores Finnish opera in the context of the core value of Finnish society, equality.
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01/2017-12/2022 |
Academy of Finland |
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Sibelius Academy’s International Visitor Programme
The programme complements our regular bachelor’s and master’s studies by inviting artists representing the highest level of their fields.
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01/2019-12/2022 |
Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation |
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Sibelius Summer Academy 2019
In summer 2019, the Sibelius Summer Academy offered three high-class events in June and August.
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06/2019-08/2019 | |
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Sibelius Summer Academy 2020
Arts Management @ Sibelius Summer Academy is a four-day international course of lectures, practical work and discussions.
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08/2020-08/2020 | |
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Sibelius Summer Academy 2021
In 2021 the Sibelius Academy offered five Summer courses by the Sibelius Academy, faculty and international guest teachers.
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Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation |
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| Sibelius Summer Academy 2022 | 06/2025-06/2025 |
Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation Wihuri Foundation |
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Sibelius Summer Academy courses
Sibelius Summer Academy was a summer study program for young talents.
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Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation
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Structure-borne sound and composite aural spaces in music and intermedia creation
Structure-borne sound can be used to transform the entire performance venue into a macro-scale resonant “instrument”.
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01/2014-12/2017 |
Academy of Finland |
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Transforming Musicianship – Musicians’ Learner Identity
The research project led by Dr. Guadalupe López-Íñiguez aims at renewing learning and performance practices in classical music.
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01/2018-12/2021 |
Academy of Finland |
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Transition pathways towards gender inclusion in the changing musical landscapes of Nepal (amplifyHer)
The project's interdisciplinary research aims to enhance systemic understanding of how gender equality can be promoted in Nepal's evolving music culture.
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09/2023-09/2027 |
Academy Programme for Development Research, DEVELOP2, The Research Council of Finland |
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Unveiling The Mystery Of Harmony
Research project about memory for harmony (2016-2026) lead by professor Tuire Kuusi, main researcher PhD Ivan Jimenez.
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01/2016-12/2026 |
Kone Foundation Wihuri Foundation |
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Vision 2030 for Finnish Music Education
The aim of the joint vision of the project is to ensure that goal-oriented and high-quality music studies and activities are possible everywhere in Finland also in the future.
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12/2018-12/2020 | |
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Voice and Justice – Music as a Facilitator of Diversity
This international project explores how music-making and research support intercultural dialogue and social equality.
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01/2025-12/2027 |
Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation |
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Well-being of music students and music professional -research group
The research group focuses on the well-being of professionals and development of working environments in the music industry. It consists of Professor Tuire Kuusi, an expert in music research, and eight doctoral researchers.
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08/2024-12/2029 |