Nanette Nielsen

Nanette Nielsen is a Professor at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo (UiO), and a core member of the RITMO Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Rhythm, Time, and Movement. She has been affiliated with UiO since 2015, following academic roles at the University of Nottingham (2009–2015) and the University of East Anglia (2005–2009).

Education:

• BA in Musicology and Philosophy, University of Copenhagen
• MMUS and PhD, Royal Holloway, University of London

Her research bridges music and philosophy, focusing on ethics, aesthetics, and phenomenology in 20th- and 21st-century contexts. She explores film music, rhythm and temporality in musical experience, popular music, Scandinavian music, and opera/music criticism during the Weimar Republic.

Recent publications reflect an interdisciplinary lens combining 4E/4A cognition (Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, Extended + Affect, Agency, Affordance, Autonomy) with music phenomenology. Key themes include audience engagement, dynamic listening, and music as a cognitive scaffold.

Scientific Awards:

• 2014 Jerome Roche Prize for her article on Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf

She leads research projects such as Bodies in Concert and contributes to groups like Engagement and Absorption and Nordic Sounds: Critical Music Research Group.