Presenters

Ciceron Camilla Ringquist, singer, composer, musician

Eva Bojner Horwitz, professor in music and health

David Thyrén, senior lecturer in musicology 

Special guests

Stefan Einhorn, professor at Karolinska Institutet

Marijane Jonsson, post-doctoral researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics

Music program

Tuning in and Improvisation – Filip Korošec, marimba

Clara Schumann, Trio pour piano, violon et violoncelle, Op. 17. III Andante (1846) – Albert Dahllöf, grand piano, Josef Andersson, violin, Astrid Hillerud, cello

Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider-Esleben & Emil Schult, Radioaktivität (1975) – Fredrik Mathias Josefson, electronics. Arrangement by Fredrik Mathias Josefson

Frédéric Chopin, ‘Raindrop’ Prelude, Op. 28, No. 15 (1838) – Filip Korošec, marimba. Arrangement by Filip Korošec

Maurice Ravel – Violin Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 77. 2 Blues. Moderato (1927) – Siri Sperling, violin, Staffan Scheja, grand piano

Jean Villard Gilles, ‘Les Trois Cloches’ (1940) – Karolina Åsberg, vocals

The concept of the knowledge concert was developed by researchers at the Royal College of Music and Karolinska Institute in Sweden where live musicians and scientific researchers creates a performance related to an important societal issue. The emotional evocativeness music allows it to act as a facilitator of knowledge acquisition which it is argued enriches the learning environment. In this study, we have built on the idea of the knowledge concert with a novel focus on Nobel prize winners’ work. Knowledge is generated from live musicians and narratives from a cicerone. The two originators will in this study develop the concept of Prelude before Nobel as a knowledge concert. Further knowledge related to the Nobel Prize scientific findings was obtained by listening to live music. In this experience thoughts and feelings were stimulated, which increased the receptivity and understanding of the Nobel Prize in terms of both content and meaning.