Per Dahl

Per Dahl (NO) studied at the University of Trondheim, Norway, and has been working in Stavanger since 1979 (Music Conservatoire, now Department of Music and Dance). He is consultant to the Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound, opened in Stavanger in 1985. He was rector at Stavanger University College (2000–2003). After finishing his dissertation at the University of Stavanger in 2006 he wrote three books: Anvendt musikkestetikk: En innføring (Applied music aesthetics: An introduction; 2008), Verkanalysen som fortolkningsarena (Music analysis as an arena of interpretation; 2011), and Music and Knowledge: A Performer’s Perspective (2017). He has published articles on Stravinsky and given several public lectures and courses on music listening/appreciation. He is the leader of a new research group focusing on practitioner knowledge in music and dance at the University of Stavanger.