Robin André Rolfhamre

Professor

Department of Classical Music and Music Education

Email: robin.rolfhamre@uia.no
Phone: +47 38142407
Mobile phone: +4797405965

Office K2032 (Universitetsveien 25, 4630 Kristiansand, Norway)

Research groups

Areas of responsibility

Robin Rolfhamre (Professor of Music Education, MMus, PhD) is a lutenist, guitarist and researcher born in Sweden in April, 1986. Following his doctoral dissertation The popular lute: An investigation of the function and performance of music in France between 1650 and 1700 (UiA, 2014; supervisors: Prof. Per Kjetil Farstad and Prof. Michael Rauhut) he has continued to study Early Modern music (c. 1400–1700) from an inter-human and social perspective focusing particularly on self-expressive acts, communication (particularly through rhetoric and social psychology) and performance practice. His interdisciplinary ambition is particularly shown through his book Informed play: Approaching a biology and concept of tone production on Early Modern lute instruments (Norway: Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP, 2018).

Dr Rolfhamre has published articles in international, peer-reviewed academic journals and has produced several CD recordings as a performing artist. Between 2016–2018, he was appointed Editor in Chief for Norwegian Journal of Musicology Online (now renamed: Norwegian eJournal of Music Research), and between 2015–2018, he was Editorial Board Member of Studia Musicologica Norvegica.

Dr Rolfhamre has received several scholarships and awards, including Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters’ Research Prize for Young Researchers, Vest-Agder County Council’s Artist Scholarship and The Norwegian Arts Council’s Artist Scholarship (Diversestipend). He is an elected member of the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters.

He is involved in several projects and organisations, such as the REMP: Reconfiguring Early Modern Performance (Organiser), Early Modern and Modern Research Group, Research Group for Song Lyrics, and the Arts in Context research platform.

Dr Rolfhamre was previously appointed conductor and musical leader for the Norwegian Flute Ensemble and he has had concerts in multiple European countries with internationally acclaimed artists. He is also an active composer, mixing engineer and producer.

Dr Rolfhamre is a Pyramid Historical Strings Artist and he plays Lauri Niskanen instruments.

Full Academic CV and Full Publications List [click here]

Research

My research is rooted in Music Pedagogy, Early Music Performance Studies and Organology, with a special interest in perspectives related to friction, negotiations and cause and effect relationships. I am particularly interested in rhetoric, performativity, philosophy and interdisciplinary work.

Selected publications

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Tuition

My main teaching activities involve musicology, lute instruments, classical guitar instruments and performance practice. I also supervise Master-theses and PhD-dissertations.

Info for my students

Course administrative:

Master's level:
- All courses in the Master's Programme in Music Performance—Classical Music
PhD level:
- Shared responsibility for KF602 Arts in Context

Academic responsible:

Musicology courses, Master's Degree in Music Performance — Western Classical Music
Shared responsibility for Faculty of Fine Arts' PhD programme's Arts in Context-specialisation

Hauen, Mali & Rolfhamre, Robin (2024). This is me: Investigating pupils' stories about the kulturskole to unveil how they and the school mutually affect each other. Journal of Embodied Research (JER). ISSN 2513-8421.
Murawska, Ewa; Rykowski, Mikolaj; Baum, Ewa; Schau, Jørn & Rolfhamre, Robin (2023). On the need for social inclusion: a few words from the editors, Education as an impulse for social inclusion. The Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. ISSN 978-83-65727-79-4. p. 13–16.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2023). Digitising historical crafts education, Education as an impulse for social inclusion. The Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. ISSN 978-83-65727-79-4. p. 383–408.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2022). Edukacja muzyczna w Norwegii – digitalizacja, tradycja i etyka, Edukacja jako impuls do społecznej inkluzji. Akademia Muzyczna im. I. J. Paderewskiego w Poznaniu. ISSN 978-83-65727-68-8. p. 385–412.
Rolfhamre, Robin & Nesmann-Aas, Inga Marie (2022). Rethinking Music Practise–Sessions beyond Poiesis and Praxis-Towards Practising Democracy. The European Journal of Philosophy in Arts Education. ISSN 2002-4665. 7(1), p. 63–114. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6536193. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
How can the (seemingly isolated) process of practising a musical instrument in the context of practice sessions be seen as enabling students to develop skills “that are needed to keep democracies alive’ (Nussbaum, 2010, p. 2). How can we encourage this further? The approach is to explore the various potentials of the practise session to be something more than mere training. An exploration that can be instrumentally fostered in a study environment (formal or informal) through a practical pedagogical approach, not to reach a specific end — i.e. defined learning outcomes — but to result in the student transcending the professional competence acquisition situation to gain wisdom for a broader perspective. What is more, in the present article we will focus on the more autonomous aspects of the every-day, informal practice session of developing musicians and bring in perspectives from philosophy, particularly focusing on the relation between state policies and the individual performer. First, we explore the practise session-case as an aesthetic event. Secondly, we address the individual within the situation in relation to the exterior world while proposing an approach to serve as a framework for further exploration. We apply interaction through social media as a case for this section of the article. Thirdly, we seek to further develop the practice-session as a potential activity for personal growth. Next, we make a note of the related context of ensemble practice. Finally, we propose a logbook exercise to strategically enable this growth-process in practice.
Rolfhamre, Robin & Øvrebø, Daniel Henry (2022). Rhetorically Performative Early Music: YouTube Videos as Statements . In Rolfhamre, Robin & Angelo, Elin (Ed.), Views on Early Music as Representation - Invitations, Congruity, Performance. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 978-82-02-75619-2. p. 199–221. doi: https:/doi.org/10.23865/noasp.157.ch8. Show summary
Increasing history consumption in today’s society creates, in different social formations, a common expectation of what historical music is, can and should be. In this chapter, we draw on music education and Baradian agential realism perspectives to offer what we perceive as a promising procedure for studying early music performance from a less anthropocentric stand. We ask: How does early music performance intra-act with YouTube as medium, and how does this intra-action enable informal learning? We first address the significance and prevailing interpretation of rhetoric in this context, and what a move from a single-case rhetoric to an ecological one offers. Subsequently, we introduce agential realism as an approach to studying early music performance, particularly through the lense of Barad (2007). Here, we offer a discursive practice that can contribute to future studies, which we follow up with an exemplary case study. The case is later discussed and analysed, and in conclusion we draw attention to the online media’s role both in sustaining historical culture for new generations, and in cumulatively reinventing itself as a pedagogical process both within and outside educational settings.
Rolfhamre, Robin & Angelo, Elin (2022). Introduction: Making History Through Music Performance and Education . In Rolfhamre, Robin & Angelo, Elin (Ed.), Views on Early Music as Representation - Invitations, Congruity, Performance. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 978-82-02-75619-2. Full text in Research Archive
Rolfhamre, Robin (2022). Performative Musicology and HIP as Rhetoric and Pedagogy for the Past in Present and Future. In Rolfhamre, Robin & Angelo, Elin (Ed.), Views on Early Music as Representation - Invitations, Congruity, Performance. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 978-82-02-75619-2.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2021). E-learning in Conservatory Style Musical Instrument Performance Training: Thoughts on the Rhetoric of Sustainability, Technology and Higher Music Education. In Rykowski, Mikolaj (Eds.), Music E-ducation in XXI- st century. New challenges and perspectives. Wydawnictwo Miejskie Posnania, Akademia Muzyczna im. I. J. Paderewskiego w Poznaniu. ISSN 978-83-65727-59-6. p. 129–134.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2021). E-learning w nauce gry na instrumentach muzycznych w stylu konserwatoryjnym: przemyślenia na temat retoryki zrównoważonego rozwoju, technologii i wyższego szkolnictwa muzycznego. In Murawskiej, Ewy; Schau, Jørn; Rykowskiego, Mikołaja & Kłysz-Sokalskiej, Natalii (Ed.), E-dukacja muzyczna w XXI wieku Nowe wyzwania i perspektywy. Wydawnictwo Miejskie Posnania, Akademia Muzyczna im. I. J. Paderewskiego w Poznaniu. ISSN 978-83-65727-62-6. p. 169–176.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2021). Can We Buy Virtue? Implications from State University Funding On Musical Instrument Performance Teacher Mandate. In Angelo, Elin; Knigge, Jens; Sæther, Morten & Waagen, Wenche (Ed.), Higher Education as Context for Music Pedagogy Research. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202696979. p. 95–112. doi: 10.23865/noasp.119.ch4. Full text in Research Archive
Rolfhamre, Robin (2020). Through the Eyes of an Entangled Teacher: When Classical Musical Instrument Performance Tuition in Higher Education is Subject to Quality Assurance. Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (ACT). ISSN 1545-4517. 19(1), p. 81–117. doi: 10.22176/act19.1.81. Full text in Research Archive
Rolfhamre, Robin (2019). Musikkforskning og -utøving i kontekst: tidligmusikken som sosial praksis. Agder Vitenskapsakademi Årbok. ISSN 0809-7283. 2018, p. 97–105.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). ‘Caprice de chaconne’ (1671): Symmetry and proportions in Francesco Corbetta's work for Baroque guitar. Early Modern Culture Online (EMCO). ISSN 1892-0888. 7. doi: 10.15845/emco.v4i1.1513.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2017). The language of Early Music performance: A proposition on how to connect words and instrumental music. The Musical Times. ISSN 0027-4666. 158(1938), p. 81–92.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). Takketale for Agder Vitenskapsakademis forskningspris til yngre forskere. Agder Vitenskapsakademi Årbok. ISSN 0809-7283. p. 227–229.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). Embellishing lute music: using the Renaissance Italian passaggi practice as a model and pedagogical tool for an increased improvisation vocabulary in the French Baroque style. Dansk Musikforskning Online. ISSN 1904-237X. p. 219–238.

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Murawska, Ewa; Rykowski, Mikolaj; Baum, Ewa; Schau, Jørn & Rolfhamre, Robin (2023). Education as an impulse for social inclusion. The Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. ISBN 978-83-65727-79-4. 496 p.
Rolfhamre, Robin & Angelo, Elin (2022). Views on Early Music as Representation - Invitations, Congruity, Performance. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 978-82-02-75619-2. 263 p. Full text in Research Archive
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 978-82-02-59044-4. 227 p. Full text in Research Archive

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Rolfhamre, Robin (2023). Over Seas.
Rolfhamre, Robin ; Jämtbäck, Tomas; Rosand, Ellen & Tarrodi, Andrea (2023). "Barbara Strozzi – sex, tårar och sångsamlingar" på P2 Musikhistoria (Sveriges Radio P2). [Radio]. Sveriges Radio P2. Show summary
Barbara Strozzi är en sensation! Att hon som kvinna i 1600-talets Venedig ger ut sånger i eget namn är kaxigt bara det – dessutom med texter som får hela stan att rodna. I programmet medverkar musikforskarna Ellen Rosand och Robin Rolfhamre. Programledare är kompositören Andrea Tarrodi.
Schau, Jørn; Rolfhamre, Robin ; Adamowicz-Kaszuba, Teresa; Murawska, Ewa; Okupnik, Malgorzata & Pilasiewicz, Patryk [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2023). Scientific panel: Music matters!
Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). Introduction to effective academic project design.
Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). Foundations of Tone production on Classical Guitar.
Schau, Jørn & Rolfhamre, Robin (2023). Working with Flute ensembles.
Halvorsen, Linda Cecilie; Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). Physically active lessons as a teaching method in music education, Part 3: Practical examples.
Halvorsen, Linda Cecilie; Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). Physically active lessons as a teaching method in music education, Part 2: Learning styles and planning.
Halvorsen, Linda Cecilie; Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). Physically active lessons as a teaching method in music education, Part 1: Physically active lessons and inclusion.
Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). Professionalising Classical musicians Part 4: Outreach.
Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). Professionalising Classical musicians Part 3: Finding your market.
Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). Professionalising Classical musicians Part 2: Implementing your brand.
Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). Professionalising Classical Musicians Part 1: Singularity and Branding.
Eidsaa, Randi Margrethe; Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). Musical communication.
Schau, Jørn & Rolfhamre, Robin (2023). The labour market for musicians in Norway and the UiA study programs in Classical music performance.
Kharatyan, Mariam; Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). Artistic research: on specifics of the Norwegian model of artistic research and "Armenian fingerprints" project.
Øhrn, Konrad Mikal; Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). Chord usage in two selected compositions by Konrad Øhrn.
Mathisen, Terje Howard; Rolfhamre, Robin & Schau, Jørn (2023). The music of Sigurd Lie.
Schau, Jørn & Rolfhamre, Robin (2023). Norwegian National Romance and music by Edward Grieg.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2022). Views on Early Music as Representation: A Book Presentation.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2021). From theory to reality: performative implications from arranging Adam de la Halle's fifth motet, "j'ai adès d'amours chanté,” for solo lute.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2021). Agder vitenskapsakademis årsfest.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2021). Quatre Pièces Brèves.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2021). E-Learning in Conservatory Style Musical Instrument Performance Training: Thoughts on the Rhetoric of Sustainability, Technology and Higher Music Education.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2021). A Rhetoric of Sustainability, Technology and Higher Music Education: A Teacher’s Thoughts on E-learning in Conservatory Style Musical Instrument Performance Training.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2021). A Rhetoric of Sustainability, Technology and Higher Music Education: A Teacher’s Thoughts on E-learning in Conservatory Style Musical Instrument Performance Training.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2020). All aboard! Aspects of inclusion in Norwegian municipal cultural schools, exemplified with cases from two towns, "Schoolchildren in Central and Northern Europe: about the need for Transcultural Education -Social, Ethical,Musical and Medical Aspects"; Monograph, member of editorial committee. Jan Paderewsky Music Academy Poznan, Poland. ISSN 978-83-65727-53-4. p. 209–226.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2020). Fortelingen om Barabbas.
Rolfhamre, Robin & Rosenvinge, Morten (2019). Researcher portrait: Robin Rolfhamre.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2019). Tidligmusikkens muligheter i en ny tid.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2019). Nøtteknekkeren. [Internet]. Uia.no.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2019). Erfaringer med Canvas: Designe et emne | video 3.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2019). Avtakkingfest for preses Ernst Håkon Jahr, Agder vitenskapsakademi.
Rolfhamre, Robin & Farstad, Per Kjetil (2019). Minnestund for Roy Eriksen.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2019). Fra det representative til det performative.
Farstad, Per Kjetil & Rolfhamre, Robin (2019). Renaissance Duets & Solos.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2019). TUTORIAL: START WRITING YOUR BEGINNER THESIS.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2019). Tutorial: A 3 minutes kick-starter for your beginner thesis.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2019). Kontekster og utfordringer i tidligmusikken før 1700.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). Trubadurer, verdenssyn og kunnskapsproduksjon: om synteser mellom musikkutøving, musikologier og det performative .
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). Crash course i søknadsskriving for ph.d-søkere.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). Musikkforskning og utøving i kontekst: tidligmusikken som sosial praksis.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). ME-406, MUK401, MUK501, MUK502 online courses for the Master's programme in Western Classical music.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). Gammel musikk, samvær og fremtid.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). Informed Play and the Self-Expressive. [Internet]. www.uia.no.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). SERVICE: Skill, Experience and Relevance in a Varies study environment Implementing Canvas in Education.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). Informed Play by Robin Rolfhamre. [Internet]. YouTube.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). Institutt for klassisk musikk og musikkpedagogikks nettside.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). Department of Classical Music and Music Education website.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). Robin Rolfhamre. [Internet]. Facebook.
Rolfhamre, Robin & Jan Arve, Olsen (2018). EU-ekspert på lutt. [Internet]. www.uia.no.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2018). Ta ansvar för ditt musicerande! SGLS Svenska Gitarr- och Lutasällskap. ISSN 0283-474X. 51(2), p. 7–10.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2017). Musikk fra 1300- til 1700-tallet.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2017). Komponisten som smisket med Solkongen. Fædrelandsvennen. ISSN 0805-3790. p. 20–20.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2017). Northern Winds, Nordic Early Music, 1140–1810.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2017). Ego sum.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2017). Lunchkonsert med Robin Rolfhamre.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2017). Barocken innan Bach och Händel.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2017). ICT-support for Robin Rolfhamre's lectures.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2017). Lutmusik som berättar — tankar efter en doktorsavhandling . SGLS Svenska Gitarr- och Lutasällskap. ISSN 0283-474X. 50(1), p. 15–17.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). Dr Robin Rolfhamre Instrument Collection.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). A case study of the colascione from an idiomatics perspective. Lutezine. p. 52–63.
Christiansen, Atle C. & Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). Musikeren Robin Rolfhamre får forskningspris. [Internet]. http://www.uia.no/nyheter/musikeren-robin-rolfhamre-faar-for.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). Why should anyone listen to me? by Robin Rolfhamre (MMus, PhD).
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). 4 tips to lutenists and guitarists by Robin Rolfhamre (MMus, PhD).
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). Talentutvikingsprogrammet unge musikere.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). Cantigas de Santa Maria | Alfonso X (1221–1248).
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). Vi må belønne institusjonene som driver med kunstnerisk forskning. Forskning.no. ISSN 1891-635X.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). ‘Who am I?’ Individuality as focus in higher music education.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). Glem den høyverdige musikken. Fædrelandsvennen. ISSN 0805-3790. p. 19–19.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). Translating the Early Modern musician: From historical past to contemporary practice and practise.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). ‘Performing artistic research in Early Modern genres and to have an academic career as a lute scholar.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). Svartedauen.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). ‘Concert introduction and perspectives on Early Music.’ Konsertintroduksjon ved dr. Robin Rolfhamre.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). ‘Getting noticed: Strategies and thoughts on creating a name and finding your uniqueness as a musician.’.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2016). The language of sound.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2015). Nysgjerrig? Kortreist lutt på Sørlandet.
Rolfhamre, Robin (2015). Io e lei.
Øvrebø, Daniel Henry; Rolfhamre, Robin ; Angelo, Elin & Mattes, Arnulf Christian (2021). Performative arts-based audience research: investigating experiences with high modernist works for solo flute. Universitetet i Agder. ISSN 9788284270463. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Musical communication has been examined from multiple perspectives, ranging from semiotic analysis and cognitive approaches to social and cultural contexts. Nevertheless, an approach that combines qualitative methods with artistic perspectives is lacking. In this PhD project, three postwar modernist works for solo flute constitute a program performed in three cities in Norway: B. Ferneyhough – Cassandra’s Dream Song; B. Jolas – Fusain pour une Flutiste, and M. Kagel – Atem für einen Bläser. After each performance, I conducted focus group studies with participants engaged primarily through the respective cities’ symphonic orchestra subscription list. Guided by a general agential realist perspective on music performance and an inquiry into audience responses, I aim to investigate how live performance experiences with this music produce subjectivities among audiences, and how this can be expressed by creating narratives from the interviews and conversations. In addition, my own navigation around the double role of performer and researcher is subject to inquiry.
Rolfhamre, Robin ; Angelo, Elin & Øvrebø, Daniel Henry (2020). Performative arts-based audience research: investigating experiences with high modernist works for solo flute. Universitetet i Agder.

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