Presenters

Cicerone Marika Griehsel, journalist and filmmaker

Eva Bojner Horwitz, professor in music and health

David Thyrén, senior lecturer in musicology

Special guests

Mpho Tutu van Furth, priest and author

Niclas Kjellström-Matseke, chairman, Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation

Cecilia Stenfors, associate professor, Stockholms universitet & Karolinska Institutet

Program

Tuning in and Improvisation Farshid Dalir – tombak

J.S. Bach – Chorale Prelude – Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639 (1732) Arrangement by Feruccio Busoni. Staffan Scheja – grand piano

Peter Klatzow – Dances of Earth and Fire, 1^st movement (1988) Filip Korošec – marimba

Hendrik Hofmeyr Variazioni sopra una ninnananna africana, Op.101c (2007) Susan Yondt – grand piano

Miles Davis & Marcus Miller – Tutu (1986) Tumi Torfason – trumpet, Emmanouil Georgoudis – bass guitar, Farshid Dalir – percussion

Traditional Xhosa – Qongqothwane (The Click Song) Hava-Ja-Toivo Carels – vocals, Zandile Madlazi – vocals, Jessica Van Rooyen – vocals, Sonja Viviers – guitar

Gabriel Fauré – Après un rêve Op. 7 (1878) Siri Sperling – violin, Staffan Scheja – grand piano

Siegfried Kutterer – Letzigi (2011) Filip Korošec – percussion, Johannes Carlsson – percussion, Alexandru Munteanu – percussion

Hannes Taljaard – Thula, Sthandwa (2002) Susan Yondt – grand piano

Enoch Sontonga – Nkosi sikelel’ iAfrika (1897) Hava-Ja-Toivo Carels – vocals, Zandile Madlazi – vocals, Jessica Van Rooyen – vocals, Sonja Viviers – vocals, Rineke Viljoen – grand piano

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.