PHD Student ANNA RAMSTEDT

I am a PhD student in Musicology at the University of Helsinki. In the past, almost 30 years, I have participated in the classical music culture as pupil, student, teacher, performer, scholar, and occasionally, music critic. With piano as my main instrument I have studied and graduated from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (Music Pedagogue), and the Sibelius-Academy, University of Arts in Helsinki (M.M.). I have also studied Middle Eastern Studies and Musicology in the University of Helsinki, from which I graduated (M.A.) in 2019. In year 2020–2021 I was a visiting PhD student in Utrecht University in the Netherlands. 

In 2020 I received a four-year grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation to pursue my PhD full time. At the moment I am working on my article-based dissertation for the fourth year. In my research I study gender based inequality and associated whiteness in the classical music culture in Finland. I also study gendered and sexual misconduct and emotional abuse in the Finnish classical music education. I also work in a team with the aim of publishing piano music by historical Finnish women composers.

For me it is important that information produced in my research is not only directed to other scholars but also to any practitioners in the classical music culture, such as students and teachers.

My pronouns are she/her.