Nobert Meyn, founding director of Music, Mobility and Migration project: Post-war music at Dartington: the importance of the Summer School of Music
Norbert Meyn is a professional singer, coach and project curator. Born in Weimar in former East Germany, Norbert has been living in the UK since 1997. After a short period as a curator of international arts projects in the 1990s he chose a full-time career in music. Norbert has been designing and leading a range of practice-based research projects since 2004. His research interests are the performance practice of the German Lieder repertoire, the history of vocal pedagogy and the theme of music and migration, especially émigré musicians from Nazi-ruled Europe. Norbert is Principal Investigator for the three year AHRC funded research project at the Royal College of Music Music Migration & Mobility. His previous research outputs include the online resource Singing a Song in a Foreign Land and a project about the émigré composer Peter Gellhorn. He is also director of the research-lead professional Ensemble Émigré.
A mobile version of the ‘Music, Migration and Mobility’ exhibition was on show this year at the Dartington Music Summer School This included two special panels about Dartington and introduced a digital database about the early years of the Summer School. Based on Jeremy Wilson’s archive in the British Library, the database allows users to search performers/teachers by name and concert repertoire by composer.