Introducing the NORD University Team

Introducing the NORD Team: Project Mapping & Dissemination

HANS STOP

Hans Jørgen Støp is Associate professor in Music Production at the Department of Music, Nord University. He has held this position since 2005. He graduated from the music performance studies in Jazz (Vocal) at the Trondelag Music Conservatory in 1994, but has own his reputation as a singer/composer/producer in the Grammy award winning Norwegian Rock Band Locomotives (signed to BMG/Sony Scandinavia and Mammoth Records, U.S) in the years 1994-2004. 

He has also for the last twenty years produced over 15 official Album releases, and written songs for other artists, movies and television series. He combines his knowledge of the professional music industry with the academical/educational view of a developer/researcher.

GREG CURDA

Greg Curda is a Hollywood veteran sound mixer with over 75 feature films to his credit. He has 12 Golden Reel nominations, 3 Academy Award nominations, and one team Oscar for Sound Effects on Hunt For Red October. 

The Academy nominated shows were Black Rain, Star Trek VI, Days of Thunder, and The Hunt for Red October. The Golden Reel nominations included The Addams Family, Alien 3, Demolition Man, Ghost, Harlem Nights, Patriot Games, and Star Trek V. Working as an Assistant Professor at the Film/TV department at Nord University, Greg still maintains relationships and alliances with award winning Hollywood craftspeople, producers, and consultants. One of his main benefits is is ability to shorten the distance between the industry and academia.

Greg is also one of the initiators and arrangers of the international media festival &ACTION that is held at Nord University each year in April. It brings together all levels of the multimedia industry through presentations, workshops and social gatherings: https://andaction.no/ 

FRODE FJELLHEIM

Frode Fjellheim is a Norwegian composer and musician (piano, synthesizer and joik). He is best known for his band Transjoik and as the composer of the song “Eatnemen Vuelie”, which in an adapted version called «Vuelie», is the opening musical number of the Disney film «Frozen». Fjellheim was educated at the Classical program at Trøndelag Musikkonservatorium (1980–84). 

He has a long list of commissioned works for festivals and various musical ensembles. He has also composed a lot of theatre music, music for documentaries, TV and several short films.

During the 1990s, he headed his namesake band Jazz Joik Ensemble, which later became Transjoik. Mari Boine, Ulla Pirttijärvi, Katarina Barruk, Anne Vada, Hildegunn Øiseth, Iren Reppen and Tone Hulbækmo are some of the other artists that Fjellheim has worked with. Decca records released an album with some of Fjellheim´s choral works in 2017 – performed by Cantus (the choir singing Vuelie on the Frozen opening). Fjellheim holds a professorate at Nord University.

PAAL FAGERHEIM

Paal Fagerheim is a Professor of Musicology at NORD University.
Fagerheim defended his PhD in Musicology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim in 2010, doing academic and arts-based research on rap and reggae music in northern Norway. His research fields are within contemporary popular music studies, ethnomusicology, anthropology and traditional music in a Nordic context. Paal Fagerheim has also published numerous articles and book chapters, and edited an anthology on Scandinavian music traditions, place and space.