Board, committees, collegiums, and councils

Term of office: 1 January 2024 - 31 December 2026

At Malmö Academy of Music, the Board of Directors is the highest decision-making body. It consists of 12 members: seven teachers, two other employees and three student representatives, including a doctoral student. They are appointed by election in each category. The school's Head of Department is chairperson. 

Chairperson

• Hans Hellsten, Head of Department

Secretary

• Jenny Svensson

Teachers’ representatives

• Joakim Barfalk
• Adriana di Lorenzo Tillborg
• David Hansson
• Anders Johnsson
• Francisca Skoogh
• Carl-Johan Stjernström

Other employees’ representative

• Kent Karlsson
• Rebecka Lassbo

Doctoral students’ representative

Students’ representative

Deputy representatives (teachers) 

• Peter Berglund
• Samuel Hällkvist
• Anna Edström Rudolf

Deputy representative (other employees)

• Ulrika Emanuelsson

Review panel

• Hans Hellsten
• Joakim Barfalk, teacher representative
• Student representative
• Jenny Svensson, secretary

Notices and minutes in LUBox (in Swedish)

Term of office: 1 July 2025 - 31 December 2026

Malmö Academy of Music's Research and Research Education Board functions as an independent preparatory and decision-making body for research and research education in Music Education and Artistic Research in Music. 

• Chairperson
  Anna Houmann, Deputy Head of Department for Research and Research Education

Representatives 

• Adriana Di Lorenzo Tillborg
• Michael Edgerton
• Markus Tullberg
• Sara Wilén

Minutes in LUBox (in Swedish)

Term of office: 1 July 2025 - 31 December 2026

Chairperson

• Almaz Yebio, Deputy Head of Department

Representatives

• Daniel Fjellström
• Henrik Frendin
• Anders Hallbäck
• Elin Wikström

Deputy representatives

• Björn-Tryggve Johansson
• Siri Skansberger

Minutes in LUBox (in Swedish)

The Equality Committee focuses on gender equality, equal treatment, and diversity at Malmö Academy of Music. Its mission is to develop, update, inform and disseminate the institution's strategic and long-term work from an intersectional perspective, and to promote mutual tolerance and respect.

These are some of the efforts that have been made over the past five years in the field of equality:

• A faculty-wide equality initiative, starting with an independent investigation. The results were used for workshops and discussions in all parts of the organisation where the results were further developed.
   
• PRIhME (Power Relations in Higher Music Education) - a three-year co-operation project between Malmö Music Academy and eight other European music institutions. The collaboration aimed to find solutions to problems related to power and the exercise of power in higher music education. Themes addressed included gender and sexual orientation, socio-economic background, disability and artistic norms.
   
• Lectures and workshops for teachers, students and other staff on norms, intersectionality, broadened recruitment and Tellus, a research project at Lund University focusing on sexual harassment, harassment and victimisation. The lectures were organised in collaboration with the academy’s management team and/or the student union.
   
• The creation of a ‘Talk Equally’ corner in the entrance of the school.   
   
• An exhibition in cooperation with the school's library focusing on the theses and teaching materials that highlight equality issues. 
   
• Christmas gifts distributed around the school premises and an open Zoom meeting place for staff and students to counteract involuntary loneliness during the pandemic's Christmas holidays.
   
• A feminist hangout with a film screening and playlist on International Women's Day 2023.
   
• Translation of information about our Music Teacher Training Programmes on the website into Easy Swedish, Easy English, Arabic, Dari and Tigrinya.
   
• The Equality Committee has also contributed to Malmö Academy of Music receiving various funds for its work on equality.

Members:

• Hans Hellsten, Head of Department/teacher
• Elin Wikström, Chairperson/teacher
• Pär Moberg, teacher
• Amelie Malmgren, other staff
• Student representatives

Minutes in LUBox (in Swedish)

Malmö Academy of Music's Environmental Committee works to reduce the school's environmental impact in areas such as energy consumption, purchasing, transport and waste management. The Environmental Committee also strives to influence opinion and create greater awareness of environmental and sustainability issues.

Since 2018, Malmö Academy of Music has been environmentally certified according to Lund University's criteria. The Environmental Committee meets two to three times a term.

These are some of the efforts that have been made over the past five years in the field of environment and sustainability:

• Presence-controlled lighting is installed in large parts of the A, B, C and D buildings.
   
• Separate waste sorting has been introduced.
   
• The adacemy's landlord has installed solar panels on the roof to reduce energy consumption.
   
• In connection with the remodelling of the old library into the current Liljefors Hall, the hall was furnished with used chairs donated by Lund University.
   
• The adacemy's landlord is gradually replacing old lighting with LED lighting to reduce energy consumption.
   
• Meetings with environmental officers at Section LU building.
   
• Organic fruit is served in the academy's fruit baskets.
   
• Instead of new purchases, chairs for the classrooms were reupholstered and renovated.
   
• Used sofas were purchased via Lund University for common areas.
   
• Broken sofas in the café were repaired instead of new ones being purchased.

Members with rotating chairmanship:

• Maria Hjorth, teacher
• Pär Moberg, teacher
• Claus Sörensen, teacher
• Hannes Wikström, doctoral student
• Roger Wadenius Dürnberger, other staff
• Student representatives

Minutes in LUBox (in Swedish)

The Syllabus Committee at the Academy of Music supports the programmes in their work with syllabi at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The committee acts as a support to the organisation, both in the development of new syllabi and in the revision of older syllabi.

The purpose of the Syllabus Committee is to ensure that all syllabi, both for programmes and courses, are of good quality and legally sound. This is part of the Academy of Music's quality assurance.

Below is a list of Malmö Academy of Music's colleges and councils with their respective contact persons.

Colleges

• Baroque/Early music - Peter Spissky
• Guitar - David Hansson
• College of Supervisors undergraduate Music Teacher Training programme - Adriana di Lorenzo Tillberg, Markus Tullberg
• Rehearsal - Max Lörstad
• Choir - Lena Ekman-Frisk
• Media technology - Joakim Barfalk
• Piano - Franscisca Skoogh
• Rhythm - Elin Waileth Wikström
• Percussion - Johan Bridger
• Strings - Henrik Frendin
• Vocals - Elisabeth Melander
• Theory/Composition College: Erik Berndalen 
  Departments:
  - Arranging/Composition, jazz specialisation
  - Arranging/Composition, classical specialisation
  - Composition/Music for Film and Media
  - EAM/Electroacoustic Music
  - Counterpoint, Instrumentation, Listening/Analysis, Composition
  - Composition, Theory of form, Musical analysis
  - Composition, Compositional methodology
• Woodwind - Annika Fredriksson
• UVK (core education subjects) - Anna Houmann

Councils

• Folk and world music - Pär Moberg, Allan Skrobe
• Jazz - Peter Nilsson, Claus Sörensen
• Chamber music - David Hansson
• Media technology - Joakim Barfalk
• Orchestra - Johan Antoni and Samuli Örnströmer
• Pop/Rock - Mattias Frisk, Johan Hallström
• Singer songwriter - Anders Hallbäck
• Vocal – Genre Diversity - Maria Hjorth