A leading European centre for artistic research in music and an influential driving force for new developments in artistic practice.
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ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Paulo de Assis
News June 24, 2025Orpheus Instituut excels with a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant.
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Visiting fellowship programme: futures in artistic research
Call June 10, 2025Opportunity for transformative artist-researchers
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Open Call for Doctoral Artist-Researchers
Call June 20, 2025Support for living costs is available to a limited number of doctoral researchers.
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Between Lesson and Salon
Event from July 9, 2025 until July 10, 2025Join us for the Grand Finale of the Historical Piano and Violin Summer Academy 2025
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Conference: Decentralised Creativity and Agential Systems in Music
Event from November 17, 2025 until November 18, 2025
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MetamusicX
MetamusicX explores novel performative and compositional creative practices that intersect music (past and future), art, digital humanities, and contemporary philosophy.
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Armagh: Whispering from the Sky
An installation by Simon Waters (2019)
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Resounding Libraries
Unfolding Archived Knowledge Through Artistic Research
Research centre
The Orpheus Research Centre produces and promotes the highest quality of artistic research embedded in musical practice, conducted by artist researchers.
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Research and artistic realisations are presented in printed texts and digital media.
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Education
The Orpheus Institute provides advanced educational programmes for musicians, such as the international inter-university doctoral programme docARTES.
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