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Sven Bjerstedt

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Sven Bjerstedt is a professor of music education with a focus on performing arts and improvisation, and he also serves as director of studies for postgraduate education in theater and as a supervisor for doctoral students in music education. Sven is a professional pianist, educated at the Malmö Academy of Music and active mainly in various jazz orchestras in Sweden and Denmark. In 1984, he started working as an accompanist at the Malmö Theatre Academy, and since 1997 he teaches music to acting students.

Bjerstedt has written his doctoral thesis Storytelling in Jazz Improvisation: Implications of a Rich Intermedial Metaphor (2014). In addition to a number of articles, mainly in the field of music education, he has published the books Skådespelarens musikalitet (2017) and Storytelling in Jazz and Musicality in Theatre: Through the Mirror (2021).

Sven Bjerstedt has also published the following articles in 2024:

Sven Bjerstedt

Sven Bjerstedt in the Research Portal

18 Dec 2024