Music, Memory and European Values
The project examines the consequences of totalitarianism for people and music communities through research and art (music), with a special focus on the Holocaust and Russian/Soviet totalitarianism, which has taken on new forms in the 2020s.
Project introduction
In the project Music, Memory and European Values (MMEV), Uniarts Helsinki’s theme is The Responsibility of the Artist: Resistance, Otherness, Exile 1926–2026. The project examines the consequences of totalitarianism for people and music communities through research and art (music), with a special focus on the Holocaust and Russian/Soviet totalitarianism, which has taken on new forms in the 2020s.
The MMEV project partners will arrange concerts, pedagogical workshops, and colloquiums and in the partner countries. The aim of the events is to highlight European values and to create a community of shared knowledge, by raising awareness on the themes of the fight against anti-Semitism and the defence of Democracy.
The project Music, Memory and European Values will directly affect 15 000 European citizens and more than 300 000 indirectly. All the concerts and events will be recorded and published on a dedicated website as well as on the web radio supported by the Forum Voix Etouffées musicremembranceradio.org.
The project is a continuation of the CERV programme project Music, War and Peace in Europe 1922–2022, which ended in 2024.
Colloquium and Masterclass in September 2026
In 21 – 22 September 2026 a two-day international scientific colloquium in Music Centre Helsinki will take place to provide viewpoints on questions of project themes.
The invited speakers will include Henrik Rosengren (Lund University), Susanna Välimäki (University of Helsinki), Simo Muir, Oana Andreica (The Gheorghe Dima National Academy of Music), Dario Martinelli (Kaunas University of Technology), Jean-Marie Jacono (Aix-Marseille Université) and Elaine Kelly (University of Edinburgh).
