Symposium: Tools and Treasures: Perspectives on Early Musical Instruments of the Lund University Academic Orchestra

Since 1745, Lund University has maintained its own orchestra – Akademiska kapellet (Lund University Academic Orchestra) – in which students perform under professional direction. In connection with a new exhibition at Lund University's Historical Museum, featuring a selection of the orchestra's historic instruments, the Odeum Music Centre is organising an international symposium dedicated to this remarkable collection.

The symposium will cover the following topics:

• The instrument collection of Lund University Academic Orchestra: overview and contexts
  Tobias Lund (Odeum, Lund University)
• The lives of the historical instruments of Lund University Academic Orchestra as museum objects in Stockholm
  Madeleine Modin (Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research, Stockholm) 
• The Lund chalumeaux: an exceptional global resource 
  Ingrid E. Pearson (Senior Academic Tutor, Royal College of Music, London) 
• Richard Haka’s double-reed instruments: exploring instrumental combinations in the Dutch Republic, 1677–1725
  Luís Tasso Athayde Santos (historical bassoonist, oboist, recorderist and scholar in Malmö/Amsterdam)
• An eighteenth-century banana flute
  Bert Junno (Gabather, Södertälje)
• From bass to sixth flute: recorders in the Lund collection
  Emelie Roos (recorderist, Höör Barock and Malmö Academy of Music)
• Horns and horn players in the Lund University Academic Orchestra during the second half of the eighteenth century
  Eric Wahlsteen (Department of Biology, Lund University)
• Extant musical instruments as evidence of the importance of Danzig (Gdańsk) for musical life in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century Scandinavia
  Benjamin Vogel (Professor emeritus, University of Szczecin, Poland)
• A Danish ‘Bachbow’ from the mid-twentieth century: violinist and patent analyst Tobias Junno in conversation with Tobias Lund
  Tobias Junno (Ericsson, Lund) and Tobias Lund
• Concluding remarks
  Marie Martens (Curator, The Danish Music Museum, Copenhagen)

Free admission PLEASE NOTE: Registration is required and opens to the public on 2 September. If you are a scholar, musician or other professional who takes a particular interest in early musical instruments, music history, or the history of Lund University, please write to sylvia [dot] lysko [at] odeum [dot] lu [dot] se (sylvia[dot]lysko[at]odeum[dot]lu[dot]se) for information on early registration. 

The symposium will be held in English.

Don't miss to visit the exhibition Three Centuries of Music in Lund: The Instrument Collection of Akademiska Kapellet at the Historical Museum. Read more about the exhibition here.