Nordic Music Week

The main objective of Nordic Music Week is to stimulate discourse! With a maximum of 100 participants, roundtable discussions are used as the main tool to stimulate knowledge exchange and the emerging of new ideas in an intimate, peer to peer, setting.

The concept

The concept is a small and easy one. Selected speakers, hand-picked for their knowledge within a given field, give presentations to a subject. These presentations function as the basis for the following roundtable discussions.

By the end of the day every participant should have become a bit enlightened, have made new contacts and maybe even a friend – and be as tired as after a good, long day in school. The evening program gives everyone a chance to experience and enjoy what it’s really all about – music!

Getting together so many people from different disciplines worked really well – it was a great networking event as well as informative and educational.”
- Paul White, Sound On Sound Magazine about NMW 2009

Nuarena

For 2010′s event Nordic Music Week has moved it’s dates from freezing november to much kinder september. With the move we have also partnered up with the Numusic Festival and a whole string of cultural events taking place in Stavanger within the 10 day period of the umbrella event called Nuarena. The obvious goal being, that dialogue and partnership between these singular events will have a synergetic effect and that Stavanger shows off more of what it actually has to offer.

History

2010 is Nordic Music Week’s third year of existence. It began in 2008 when Stavanger was the European Capital of Culture. The event is non-profit and structured as a project under STAR – regional center for rhythmical music in Rogaland and funded by the municipality of Stavanger, Rogaland county and the Arts Council Norway.