Public examination of the doctoral dissertation of Inkeri Jaakkola - muto

Finnish Doctoral Network for Music Research

The Finnish Doctoral Network for Music Research is comprised of eight universities: Sibelius Academy, the University of Helsinki, the Universities of Eastern Finland, Jyväskylä, Oulu, Tampere and Turku, and Åbo Akademi.

The central operating principle of the network is upholding the preceding Doctoral Programme in Music Research (2012–2015), that is, supporting national multidisciplinary research on music and the surrounding cultural reality.

NOTE: This network does not award doctoral degrees. It exists to further collaboration in doctoral studies and supervision between music research units in Finnish universities. If you are interested in doctoral studies in Finland, kindly contact the professor(s) working in university department(s) that appear most suitable for your topic and approach.Also, there are no funded doctoral student positions available in the network itself: all doctoral students within the network are post-graduate students of the partner universities.

null Public examination of the doctoral dissertation of Inkeri Jaakkola

Inkeri Jaakkola will be defending her doctoral thesis on Saturday, September 26th, at Uniarts Helsinki. The thesis is entitled "Beneath the Laurel Tree: Text-Music Relationships in Paavo Heininen’s Opera Silkkirumpu, op. 45". Professor Yayoi Uno Everett (The University of Illinois at Chicago) will be acting as the opponent and professor Lauri Suurpää (Uniarts Helsinki) as the custos.

Jaakkola’s thesis is the first Finnish dissertation in which Heininen’s music is approached from the point of view of music analysis. For more information on the dissertation, please visit the Uniarts website.

The public examination will take place at the Helsinki Music Centre (Black Box) from 4 pm to 7 pm. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the defense may be followed both at the venue (max. 40 participants) or online. More information and registration details may be found here.