Opera singer Hedvig Jalhed earned an MA in Vocal Performance from the Malmö Academy of Music in 2006 and graduated from the University College of Opera in Stockholm in 2009. She has performed solo parts at venues such as the Royal Opera in Stockholm and Malmö Opera, as well as with symphony orchestras including the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, among others. In 2010, she founded the indie company Operation Opera in Halmstad, and since 2013, she has served as the artistic director of the Halland Opera & Vocal Festival on behalf of Region Halland. In addition to her career as a singer, she has also written libretti and directed chamber operas for Operation Opera. In 2022, she earned a PhD in Performance in Theatre and Music Drama from the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg, following a practice-led artistic research project focused on the conceptualization and application of operatic game design. She is senior lecturer in Chamber Music and Chamber Opera at the Academy of Music and Opera at Mälardalen University and senior lecturer in Artistic Research in Music with specialization in Music Drama at the Malmö Academy of Music. Additionally, she is currently the director of the Inter Arts Center, a research facility for artistic experimentation and cross-disciplinary projects at the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts at Lund University. Her research interests include interaction, immersivity, and the integration of new technologies into music drama, but also issues regarding epistemology and methodology in Artistic Research in general.
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