Programme

@Auditorium, Sibelius Academy T building

11:15 Antti-Ville Kärjä (Academy Research Fellow, JAPA): opening
11:30 Hans Weisethaunet (professor, University of Oslo): Questions of music and national identity

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Meri Herrala (researcher, University of Helsinki): Soviet musical nationalism from Stalin to Khrushchev
14:30 Liisamaija Hautsalo (researcher, Sibelius Academy): Finnish opera and its others
15:00 Olli Heikkinen (researcher, Sibelius Academy): In search of national music in the nineteenth-century Finland

15:30 Coffee

@Agora, Helsinki Music Centre

16:00 Merja Hottinen (Research and Development Manager, Music Finland): Promoting national music
16:30 Harri Kuusisaari (Editor-in-Chief, Rondo): Music journalism and national identity
17:00 Janne Mäkelä (former Director of JAPA): Finland, the land of thousand archives
17:30 Raine Ampuja (former Chief Conductor of the Guards Band): Finnish military music and ceremoniality
18:00 Concluding discussion