Academic interests
- Contemporary music
- Music history
- Music analysis
In my doctoral project, I explore music as a spiritual experience outside the traditionally religious context of the liturgy. This is studied through the compositional approaches of Ljubica Marić and Arvo Pärt, who synthesize elements deriving from Byzantine chant and the Octoechos, the ancient eight mode musical system, with modern expressions. In exploring the idea of "spiritual spaces" sensed in Marić’s and Pärt’s music in the context of modernism and spirituality, I examine some modern conceptions of spirituality and their limitations, and propose a new approach to understanding spirituality between the Church and the concert hall. Grounded in existing research in the field, my research project investigates contemporary music rooted in Byzantine rituals, in order to provide tools for analyzing, understanding and interpreting contemporary music which intersects with spirituality, modernism and tradition.
Background
Kristina comes from a background in piano performance and holds degrees from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo (B.A. 2014) and the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen (M.M. 2016, Soloist Diploma 2019). In 2018, she was a visiting scholar at Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College, New York, where she engaged in artistic research with the subject "American Sound", a project which sparked great interest in further development in musicology and research. The results of her artistic research were presented in a recording with music by Philip Glass, Edward Smaldone, George Crumb and Missy Mazzoli (Sheva, 2019).