university of the arts helsinki, Sibelius Academy will invite the visitor professor for six international field of their stars; pianist Robert Levin , improvisation expert David Dolan , professor, baritone Andreas Schmidt , klavikordisti Lars Ulrik Mortensen , a cultural policy professor Franco Bianchinin and harpist Emmanuel Ceyssonin. They arrive to Finland as part of the Sibelius Academy in 2019, helped launch the international visitor program.
the visitor professors are all men – no women is therefore not among the included. Sibelius-academy the dean of the Kaarlo Hildén according to the reason is due to the call-based selection process.
Performances have come from fifteen different substance from the group of independent process. Thus, the total review is not done, and the result has been a surprise to us.
Hildén notes that the Sibelius Academy should be paid to gender diversity, the more attention already at the recruitment stage.
– This shows that in the future we must change the process so that we are able to examine the gender distribution of the current better.
for Example, currently, the Sibelius Academy, 29 from the professor, only nine are women. Kaarlo Hildén, according to the Finnish musical life of the staff structure has, however, overall, female-dominated, while the rest of the world the situation is different.
This is recruited specifically for the international name, which didn’t really reflect the gender balance, which we here in Finland is. Of course, this varies by instrument and genreittäin, but if the average is considered for students and personnel structure in many orchestras, and other similar, so increasingly female-intensive, this sector seems to be forming.
Hildén view, also the cultural background of diversity should be increased.
it also should pay attention to. Learning is beneficial, when in the community there are many a variety of backgrounds representative of the teachers and students.
“in the selection process there is no thought of equality issues”
at the Sibelius Academy visitor professor options have sparked a debate on social media and has responded also to the violinist Pekka Kuusisto .
– Top my mind is probably the fact that I hope the university of the Arts students are so bright people, they don’t give the visitor the professor of gender constitutes evidence, who is fit for an expert, Kuusisto says to Yle News.
until dawn believes that the selection process bankruptcy should certainly be offered to qualified female performers, musicians, researchers, or instructors. According to him, it’s safe to assume that the selection process be think about actively equality issues.
Perhaps the Sibelius Academy can be a high international status when they see that every gesture that the school is doing, tell both the students and the surrounding art in the field, what kind of future we want to build, and what things we want to possibly leave in the past. I believe such thinking will help to build a polyphonic by learning for young musicians.
– I also Want to say that now announced a visitor, professor and international teacher guests from the list I know the names are very qualified individuals. I believe that professorship is, however, an item which remains connected with the assumption of manhood – like maybe, say, the captain or surgeon. It is the circumstances in which people easily unconsciously think of such familiar paths in accordance with the. Classical music has been a fairly male-dominated stuff, so the challenge can be in this context a little bit bigger. We should always remember and have time to think, unlike yesterday.
the Classical music circles of equality issues, however, are aimed at the buyers, according to deal with increasingly.
– Things are naturally complicated, and when knowledge in the arts is difficult to measure, are people very sensitive to all kinds of discussions, which may define the value of your own or colleagues are doing or seek to change in some places in the deep past belonging to the power station. But the ship direction turns.
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