WEDNESDAY 8/4 2026 - PREE PARTY!

In april 2026, students from all music colleges in folk and world music in the Nordic and Baltic countries are visiting the Malmö Academy of Music. In tonight's concert each school offers a taste of folk and world music in their own style. A Nordic-Baltic tapas buffet! There will be a diversity of repertoire, emotions and instruments. The event is also a "pre-party" for the Malmö Folk festival, which takes place April 9-12 in Malmö.

15.00 - 16.30 - Keynote 1 – A lecture on national minorities with a focus on Åland. Free admission – Ticket required!

19.00 - 21.00 – Concert – presentation of the visiting schools. Ticket required!
 

21.00 - 23.30 - Afterwards you are welcome to stay for mingling and folk music jam. There will be a bar.
 

Welcome to Stadshallen in Lund!

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Presented by:
Lunds kommun – Stadshallen

Sound as light, time as texture. Park Jiha plays the present with ancient instruments — and makes it shimmer.

 

Working with the piri (double-reed bamboo flute), saenghwang (mouth organ), and yanggeum (hammered dulcimer), Park Jiha sculpts immersive, minimalist compositions that dissolve the boundaries between Korean traditional music, ambient, and neoclassical experimentation. Her solo works — Communion, Philos, and the luminous The Gleam — unfold like slow-breathing architecture: sparse, precise, and resonant with both history and futurity.

 

Jiha’s sound avoids ornament in favor of clarity. Repetition becomes meditation, melody emerges from shadow, and the instruments — some thousands of years old — pulse with an uncannily modern presence. Her live performances are both grounding and transportive, balancing intimacy with grandeur, drone with silence.

 

Internationally acclaimed (Pitchfork, BBC, Mojo, The Wire, The Guardian), Park Jiha is a singular figure in the global experimental landscape — not fusing East and West, but carving out a space where those labels lose meaning.

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Presented by:
Inkonst