SYMPOSIUM: Tools and Treasures: Perspectives on Early Musical Instruments from the Academic Chapel in Lund
Since 1745, Lund University has had its own orchestra – the Academic Chapel – where students play under professional direction. In conjunction with a new exhibition at Lund University's Historical Museum, which displays a selection of the orchestra's historical instruments, the Odeum music center is organizing an international symposium dedicated to this outstanding collection.
The symposium will be held in English and will cover the following topics. Registration is required (see below):
- The instrument collection of Lund University Academic Orchestra: overview and contexts Tobias Lund (Odeum, Lund University)
- The lives of the historical instruments of Lund University Academic Orchestra as museum objects in Stockholm Madeleine Modin (Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research, Stockholm)
- The Lund chalumeaux: an exceptional global resource. Ingrid E. Pearson (Royal College of Music, London)
- Richard Haka's double-reed instruments: exploring instrumental combinations in the Dutch Republic, 1677–1725. Luís Tasso Athayde Santos (historical bassoonist, oboist, recorder and scholar in Malmö/Amsterdam)
- An eighteenth-century banana flute. Bert Junno (Gabather, Södertälje)
- From bass to sixth flute: recorders in the Lund collection. Emelie Roos (recorder, Höör Barock and Malmö Academy of Music)
- Horns and horn players in the Lund University Academic Orchestra during the second half of the eighteenth century. Eric Wahlsteen (Department of Biology, Lund University)
- Extant musical instruments as evidence of the importance of Danzig (Gdańsk) for musical life in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century Scandinavia. Benjamin Vogel (Professor emeritus, University of Szczecin, Poland)
- A Danish 'Bachbow' from the mid-twentieth century: violinist and patent analyst Tobias Junno in conversation with Tobias Lund. Tobias Junno (Ericsson, Lund) and Tobias Lund
- Concluding remarks. Marie Martens (Curator, The Danish Music Museum, Copenhagen)
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Free admission. NOTE: Registration is required. Use the following registration form to register by September 21, 2026. Lunch is included.
The symposium will be held in English.
FREE ENTRANCE
Read more about the symposium on Odeum's website (in English).
Don't miss the exhibition Lund's musical life over three centuries: The Academic Chapel's instrument collection at the Historical Museum. Read more about the exhibition here.
