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The Composers 'Equality Prize is awarded annually by the Norwegian Composer Association' s Board of Directors to a person, group, institution or association that has made a special effort to promote the work of the Composers. gender equality and gender balance in the field of creative music.
The award was presented by the Composers' Association, Stine Sørlie, at a celebration at the Norwegian Academy of Music on Friday, November 2, and was awarded to the researcher, performer and writer Astrid Kvalbein.
The composer's 2018 Award for Gender Equality was awarded to a researcher, practitioner and writer who, throughout his work, has made gender equality, feminism and gender equality. questions of being able to be one of the priorities of his program.
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In all areas of her professional activity, she has integrated these perspectives for several years, directly or indirectly, as she does nowadays. in the most recent publication of the university entitled "Implementation – four studies on art, autonomy and power", she wrote a separate chapter on power structures and understanding quality related to Ultima.
In her doctoral work on Pauline Hall from 2013, she not only attracts an important woman from the history of Norwegian music, but also challenges existing stories about how women are produced and positioned. In the thesis, critical questions are asked for their own opinions and attitudes, and this reflects their form. The thesis shows how a cultural personality can, but can also be understood in light of a gender perspective.
The thesis work has not been in a drawer once completed. The year laureate has often obtained points of view of the thesis and still shows that the female perspective occupies it. In her list of publications, she also insists that the woman's point of view be included. One may wonder whether Norwegian musical research is a more persistent and resilient reminder of how musical life has been characterized by prejudices.
In her daily press, she was also important and long enough alone to call women.
For example, when journalists, commentators and critics may wish for example several opera composers, they are part of a tradition where the winner of this year's award has been asking institutions for many years to become aware of their responsibilities.
The year 's laureate was with Anne Lorentzen, editor of the release "Music and Gender in Outstanding". The book was published in 2008 following a seminar organized last year under the auspices of the MIC, the Council of Culture, the NTNU and the Norwegian Jazz Archives, with the aim of developing conversations and actions rather than monologues identifying the biases of Norwegian musical life.
Both editors considered the publication as a "starting document" rather than a "final document" of the seminar – and a springboard became real. In response to the call to action, a number of institutions of Norwegian musical life have come together to create Balance Art – and we are delighted that the measure has reached a milestone this year , with a budget allocation from the government for next year: 1.5 million euros As a fundamental capital, it is possible to work more systematically for more equal Norwegian music and cultural life.
"I'm getting hot in the heart of getting this award.What I've written and said about music and genre in many contexts, in both large and small formats, over a long period of time. recognized as such, which inspires us to continue, and it also inspires in itself that this price exists.I see it as one of the many signs that the music industry in recent years has become more "activist" in the face of the imbalance between men and women Fewer and fewer people think that "it will happen", on the contrary, active measures are taken to change the models of stereotypes, both organizational, creative and artistic. happy to be part of it and to contribute to it, says Astrid Kvalbein, winner of the award of the year.
This is the second time that the composer's Gender Equality Award has been awarded. In 2017, the prize was awarded to Borealis – an experimental music festival
On the occasion of the award ceremony, the conductor and musician Mary Ellen Kitchen, president of the Frau und Musik Archive Frankfurt, was invited to Norway by the Composer Association. She gave a lecture on the work of archives to gather and share knowledge about the work of creative women in a historical and contemporary perspective.
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