Lecturers

Babette Greiner has worked in the music industry since 1996, mostly for contemporary music and improvising ensembles and festivals. 

Bernhard Heß is the manager of the RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, a professional choir with 34 permanent positions for singers.

Bo Holten is a Danish composer and conductor. He has composed 10 operas, 6 concertos, 4 symphonies, various orchestral pieces and chamber music, film scores and app. 40 works for a cappella choir, altogether more than 100 works. 

Dag Jansson is a professor of arts management at Oslo Metropolitan University. He has previously

been a senior lecturer of choral leadership at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg.

Ines Kaun is currently working as a Chorus Master at the Royal Opera in Stockholm.

Sigvards Kļava is one of the most outstanding Latvian conductors, also active as a teacher and a producer. He is the artistic director of the Latvian Radio Choir since 1992.

Anna Nora is a conductor, a choral pedagogue, and a composer of children’s operas. She works as an instructor of choir conducting in the division of church music in the Sibelius Academy of the University of Arts and as an instructor of choir and ensemble conducting in the Helsinki Conservatory of Music.

Helga Margrét Marzellíusardóttir is the musical director of Hinsegin kórinn in Reykjavík, Iceland. She has a dual bachelor’s degree in singing and choir conducting from the Iceland University of the Arts and a master’s degree in innovative rhythmical choir leading from the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark.

Karin Oldgren graduated as a Church Musician from the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm 1991 and continued with studies in orchestral and choral conducting which led to her Diploma Concert in 1996. 

Rajala is a Finnish rhythmic choir conducting pioneer, composer and pedagogue, specialized in

popular music / world music genres, fusions, transcultural collaboration and collective improvisation. 

Since 2007 Nils Schweckendiek has been Artistic Director of the Helsinki Chamber Choir, since 2014 Professor of Choral Conducting at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, and since 2017 Artistic Director of the Helsinki Music Centre Chorus.

Jani Sivén (born 1971) is an acclaimed conductor, composer and pedagogue. He is a full-time lecturer in choral conducting at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki and artistic director of the Audite Chamber Choir.

Marit has worked with several of Norway’s most prominent choirs and orchestras. With her energetic personality and musical dedication, she is not only an acclaimed conductor, but also an inspiring and popular teacher and speaker, being frequently invited to sit on panels or asked to adjudicate.