Symposium: Tools and Treasures: Perspectives on Early Musical Instruments of the Lund University Academic Orchestra

Since 1745, Lund University has maintained its own orchestra – Akademiska kapellet (Lund University Academic Orchestra) – in which students perform under professional direction. In connection with a new exhibition at Lund University's Historical Museum, featuring a selection of the orchestra's historic instruments, the Odeum Music Centre is organising an international symposium dedicated to this remarkable collection.

Programme:

08:15–09:00  Participant registration
09:00–09:20  Welcome address: Director musices Patrik Andersson and Tobias Lund (both Odeum, Lund University).

The collection
09:20  Tobias Lund (Odeum, Lund University): The instrument collection of Lund University Academic Orchestra: overview and historical contexts
09:45  Madeleine Modin (Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research, Stockholm): The lives of the historical instruments of Lund University Academic Orchestra as museum objects in Stockholm 
10:05  Q&A session
10:15  Coffee break

The woodwind instruments
10:45  Ingrid E. Pearson (Royal College of Music, London): The Lund chalumeaux: an exceptional global resource
11:10  Luís Tasso Athayde Santos (historical bassoonist, oboist, recorderist and scholar in Malmö/Amsterdam): Richard Haka’s double-reed Instruments: exploring instrumental combinations in the Dutch Republic, 1677–1725
11:35  Bert Junno: An eighteenth-century banana flute
12:00  Emelie Roos (recorderist, Höör Barock and Malmö Academy of Music): From bass to sixth flute: recorders in the Lund collection
12:20  Q&A session
12:35  Lunch break

Hear the chalumeau! 
14:00  Ingrid E. Pearson (chalumeau) in performance with present and former members of Lund University Academic Orchestra. Music by Christoph Graupner (1683–1760).

The horns and the horn players
14:35  Eric Wahlsteen (Department of Biology, Lund University): Horns and horn players in the Lund University Academic Orchestra during the second half of the eighteenth century
14:55  Q&A session
15:05  Coffee break

The Bumble Bee’s Nest of Gdańsk
15:35  Benjamin Vogel (Professor emeritus, University of Szczecin, Poland): Extant musical instruments as evidence of the importance of Danzig (Gdańsk) for musical life in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century Scandinavia
15:55  Q&A session

The ’Bach-bows’
16:05  Tobias Junno (Ericsson, Lund) and Tobias Lund (Odeum, Lund University): A Danish ‘Bach-bow’ from the mid-twentieth century: violinist and patent analyst Tobias Junno in conversation with music historian and critic Tobias Lund
16:30  Q&A session

16:40–17:10  Concluding remarks and joint discussion: Marie Martens (Curator at The Danish Music Museum, Copenhagen)

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Free admission. PLEASE NOTE that registration is required. Please use the following registration form to register by 21 September 2026 at the latest. Lunch is included.

The symposium will be held in English.

Don't miss to visit the exhibition Three Centuries of Music in Lund: The Instrument Collection of Akademiska Kapellet at the Historical Museum. Read more about the exhibition here.