Meet our Members
Stéphane Aubinet
Stéphane Aubinet is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo. He is doing research in the anthropology of music, with a focus on lullabies and Sámi singing traditions. His publications include a monograph devoted to the Sámi “yoik” (Why Sámi Sing, Routledge 2023). Stéphane holds a Master’s degree in musicology from the Université catholique de Louvain and a PhD in Humanities from the University of Oslo. He is currently involved in a comparative, anthropological project on the diversity of lullaby practices, and preparing a second monograph on that topic.
Research keywords: Sámi, Circumpolar, cross-cultural, ontology, nature/culture, personhood, childhood.
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Cassandre Balosso-Bardin
Cassandre Balosso-Bardin is an Assistant Professor in Cultural Musicology at KU Leuven. Her research focuses on musical instruments, cultural sustainability, and Mediterranean music. She obtained a PhD from SOAS, University of London, where she worked on the Mallorcan bagpipes (xeremies). She was a postdoctoral researcher for the interdisciplinary and interinstitutional Geste-Acoustique-Musique project in Paris (Sorbonne-Universités) and becoming a lecturer at University of Lincoln from 2017 to 2023. In 2022-23, she was a senior fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, carrying out the first in-depth study of the museum's bagpipe collection. Cassandre is the multimedia reviews editor for the Traditions of Music and Dance journal (former Yearbook for Traditional Music), and is a committee member of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. She is the founding director of the International Bagpipe Organisation. Cassandre is also a professional musician, and regularly performs internationally.
David J. Burn
David J. Burn studied music at Merton College, University of Oxford. He completed his doctorate in 2002 on Heinrich Isaac’s mass propers under the supervision of Reinhard Strohm. From 2002-2003 he was Guest Researcher at Kyoto City University of Arts. From 2003-2007 he was Junior Research Fellow at St. John’s College, University of Oxford. In 2007 he joined the Leuven musicology department as Head of the Early Music Research Group. His research focusses on the later 15th and 16th centuries, with particular interest for Heinrich Isaac and his contemporaries, interactions between chant and polyphony, source-studies, and early-music analysis.
Research interests: 15th- and 16th-century music theory and culture; source-studies; early music analysis.
Website: https://kuleuven.academia.edu/DavidBurn
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CEMPER
CEMPER, the Centre for Music and Performing Arts Heritage in Flanders, operates as a service-providing organization within the Flemish heritage policy. The primary objective is to implement UNESCO’s and Flemish heritage policies and offer services to heritage bearers involved in music and performing arts.
Website: https://cemper.be/
CEMPER is represented by Debora Plouy. She obtained a master in Social and Cultural Anthropology in 2019 at KU Leuven. At CEMPER, she supports heritage communities in safeguarding their cultural practices and monitors intangible heritage trajectories. She works on diverse projects, such as Focus Craftership, where she worked together with a video maker and Hurdy-Gurdy builder to audiovisual document this craftsmanship in order to transmit the knowledge of the builder, which also resulted in a methodology and toolbox on filming living heritage. She is also a partner in the Creative Europe project ‘Dance as ICH’, in which they research the relation between social dance practices and heritage institutions.
Research interests: Intangible heritage and heritage communities.
Website: www.linkedin.com/in/debora-plouy-6b09a616a
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Luk Indesteege
Luk Indesteege (1952) studied Civil Engineering (KULeuven) and became professional specialist in industrial training. He started playing folk music at the age of 17 after a classical music education. Through folk music he could directly experience the value and power of traditions, and that stimulated him to start research on folk music and dance in Limburg. He then became involved in various projects and publications on contemporary intangible heritage. But folk music remained the leading element in his research and practice as a musician, dancer and concert organizer.
Research interests: Evolution of traditions in folk music and dance in Belgium.
Website: www.folkinlimburg.be
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Rémy Jadinon
Rémy Jadinon works in the field of African music, at the interface of anthropology and musicology. Since 2011 he has been working at the Africa Museum in Tervuren (Belgium), where he documents the musicological collections from Central Africa. In 2017, he achieved his PhD at the ULB University (Brussels). His research is mostly about the contemporary aspect of traditional music and their transformation processes. He has conducted research on popularization of traditional religious music in Gabon, but also on “festivalisation” and “electronisation” process in central and East Africa. He pays particular attention to the use of digital technologies in circulation and promotion of traditional music.
Marie-Pierre Lissoir
Marie-Pierre Lissoir is an ethnomusicologist and museum professional specialized in the tangible and intangible heritage of continental Southeast Asia, in particular Laos. After a master in musicology and a second master in anthropology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, she completed in 2016 her PhD entitled The Khap Tai Dam, Categorisation and Musical Models. Ethnomusicological Studies among the Tai in the Highlands of Laos at ULB in collaboration with La Sorbonne Nouvelle. In this research, she looked at the relations between ethnic identity, melody and language tones. From 2015 to 2021, she worked as a researcher and curator at the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Center in Luang Prabang, Laos. Since 2021, she creates exhibitions and activate heritage locations for Qatar Museums, while continuing her research on Laos heritage.
Research interests: Performing arts, rituals and handicraft of continental Southeast Asia, Museum studies.
Website: https://ulb.academia.edu/MariePierreLissoir
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-pierre-lissoir-01134bb0/
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Laurent Nieblas Ramirez
Laurent is a musician and former instrument maker. He plays various traditional instruments but has a particular interest in bagpipes. He has worked as a bagpipe (flemish/muchosa/pastoral pipes) and flute (Irish) maker in the past, and currently plays traditional music from the north of Spain (Gaita Galega/Traditional percussions) and Belgium (Flemish bagpipes/Muchosa) in a few bands. He is keenly interested in the musical traditions of the places he can visit and has participated in a few ethnomusicological fieldworks in Asia and Africa. He currently works as a researcher, based at the ULB, but outside the field of music.
Research keywords: bagpipes, Africa, Spain, Belgium, ethnomusicology.
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Hélène Sechehaye
Hélène Sechehaye is an FNRS post-doc researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2023-2026). She studies the practice of the popular Moroccan sha’bi repertoire in the Belgian diaspora within the Chaabi Habibi project, led by the singer Laïla Amezian. She works more broadly on traditional musical practices in Brussels, an interest she developed by working as the label coordinator at the traditional music centre Muziekpublique. She has also taught ethnomusicology at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles (Rhythms and Rhythmics department). Her first book, Bruxelles, capitale européenne des Gnawa. Pratiques musicales et formes rituelles dans la diaspora marocaine, will shortly be published by Vrin ("MusicologieS »).
Anaïs Verhulst
Anaïs Verhulst is an ethnomusicologist who specialises in Karnatak music, Norwegian folk, metal music studies, intangible cultural heritage, and musical instruments. She is a researcher at the Musical Instrument Museum on the Be-MUSIC project in collaboration with the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren. As part of this, she is in charge of homogenising and updating the museums’ thesaurus of musical instruments. Furthermore, she works as a guide at the MIM. From 2021 to 2023 she was a guest lecturer in ethnomusicology at the KU Leuven. Before her appointment at the MIM, she worked as an expert on intangible cultural heritage at CEMPER, the Centre for Music and Performing Arts Heritage in Flanders. Supported by a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship, she received her PhD in Ethnomusicology in 2018 from University College Dublin on a cross-cultural study of the violin South India, Norway, and metal. As a musician, she plays the classical piano, Irish and Norwegian fiddle music, the Great Highland bagpipe, and Central-Javanese gamelan.
Adilia Yip
Adilia Yip is a researcher and a marimba and balafon musician. Her research interests include music practice, embodiment, artistic experimentation, and co-creation. She is the main investigator for Belspo Brain 2.0 project "ReSoXy: Re-sounding the xylophone collection of Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren". She has obtained PhD in the Arts with her balafon research at the University of Antwerp/Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, and Master in African Studies at Ghent University. As an active chamber and solo musician, her passion in exploring different musical genres and cultures have led to exciting collaborations crossing the genres of classical, contemporary, world and popular music. She is the co-founder of “The Bracket Percussion” for multidisciplinary and participatory percussion projects (Klinken Percussie Festival, Voice Your Diversity etc), and the seminar series “Method/Art” (2019-23, ARIA). www.adiliayip.com