WEDNESDAY 8/4 2026

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.

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 – A presentation of the visiting music academies.

Ticket required!
 

21.00 - 23.30 – Afterwards you are welcome to stay for mingling and folk music jam. The bar is open!
 

Welcome to Stadshallen in Lund!

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Presented by:
Lunds kommun – Stadshallen

Malmö Academy of Music

Duo SisuPlatense performs newly composed music for nyckelharpa and bandoneon, original compositions, Finnish tunes, and Argentine folk music. The concert concludes as Tango Primo, where musical power, passion, and poetry define the trio together with cellist Per Tidstrand.

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About Duo SisuPlatense:
The Malmö-based duo is known from Orquesta Tangarte. Hedda Heiskanen is from Finland and Juanjo Passo from Buenos Aires. Together they create music influenced by two continents – from tango classics to their own compositions.

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Musicians:
Hedda Heiskanen – piano, nyckelharpa, violin, vocals
Juanjo Passo – bandoneon, 7-string guitar
 

About Tango Primo:
Tango Primo is a trio known for musical power and poetry. Along with cellist Per Tidstrand, the trio expands on Duo SisuPlatense with a full and dynamic sound.
 

Musicians:
Per Tidstrand – cello
Hedda Heiskanen – violin, piano
Juanjo Passo – bandoneon
 

Tickets
The concert costs 150 SEK, payable in cash or via Swish at the door. Students and seniors 120 SEK, children under 15 free.
 

During the evening, enjoy empanadas, alfajores, coffee, and other treats on site.

Presented by:
TangoFolk Malmö, Café Dulcita

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