Islands Matter Seminar. Working with music and ancient instruments as a tool for curating history and the Nordic Celtic Connections

Name: Islands Matter Seminar. Working with music and ancient instruments as a tool for curating history and the Nordic Celtic Connections
Start: 2026-10-01 12:00+00:00
End: 2026-10-01 01:30+00:00
Location: Remote access only

Throughout the past decade, Christine Kammerer has specialised in curating the Viking-, Iron Age, and the Nordic/Celtic connections through original compositions and ancient music, storytelling and immersive performances, workshops and concert lectures - with her trusty lyres in hand.

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12.00PM Thu 01 October 2026
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1.30PM Thu 01 October 2026

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Remote access only
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Free

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Professor Andrew Jennings
email: ins@uhi.ac.uk

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In this webinar Kammerer will demonstrate how she utilizes her background in Musicology, Comparative Cultural Studies and Music Production to activate history through music, and to explore the connections between the soundscapes of the Nordic and Celtic worlds - past and present.

She will share examples of her music and unfold the research and methods behind her work - including the concept of method-writing. Demonstrating how one can begin to approach a pre-historic soundscape and create one's own tool-box of ancient sounds and music.

Kammerer will also demonstrate how approachable such a method of curating cultural history can be - and how powerful. To that end, she will demonstrate how available the lyre is as an instrument for activating history, and hopes to inspire more people to be curious about the instrument.

Bio

CHRISTINE KAMMERER is a Danish-born award-nominated artist, known for her versatile talents as a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer. Since 2022 Kammerer has lived in Scotland focusing on curating Scottish-Scandinavian connections through music history and symphonic folk fusion, and on curating the history of women – and witches – in the alcohol industry in her and Jane Ross’ critically acclaimed Musical Whisky Experience “Whisky & Witches”.

Kammerer has a BA in "Musicology and Comparative Cultural Studies", and a Master of Arts in "Modern Culture and Cultural Communication" specialising in Ethnomusicology and the Curation of Cultural Heritage through Living History, from Copenhagen University. In 2023 she also finished a 2-year course in Music Production from MPW.

Among her latest projects are:

A SHARED SOUNDSCAPE FROM AN ANCIENT CELTIC WORLD: Where Celtic and Nordic Music Meet (Concert Lecture)
SCANDINAVIA MEETS SCOTLAND: A Viking’s Journey to Scotland Told Through Music (Song and Music Workshop) (2025)
"Whisky & Witches" (2022 – now) An Immersive, Magical, Musical, Whisky Experience – having performed 45 shows across 5 countries, this experience is well known within the whisky industry.
”Jotunger: A Viking Feast and Musical Experience” (2025): A Viking drinks and dining experience accompanied by music and storytelling, by leading experts within the field.
"Threads of Life" (2025): A Scottish/Scandinavian choir projects with Voices of Argyll

MWI (Musical Whisky Interpretation) – Symphonic Composition

"Echoes of North" (2024): A Symphonic Fusion of Nordic and Celtic Tonalities (album). A co-creation between musicians from Scotland, Norway and Denmark

Creative Scotland project for the Scottish Crannog Centre (2024): In her capacity as Affiliate Artist with UNESCO RIELA at the University of Glasgow, Kammerer led a co-creative music project with an integration choir and composed music for the museum

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