• Comment: Primary sources cannot establish notability per WP:GNG. I'm not sure the deanship of the BSA is enough to satisfy WP:NACADEMIC #6. I cannot see anything else there that would obviously meet NACADEMIC or WP:MUSICBIO criteria, although happy to hear arguments (appropriately referenced) to the contrary. DoubleGrazing (talk) 13:20, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

James Helgeson (born 1966 in Illinois) is an American and Italian classical musician. He is Dean of the Barenboim-Said Akademie, a Berlin music conservatory, where he is also Professor of Composition and Musicology. [1]

Career

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Helgeson is a composer and Renaissance scholar, and Dean of Daniel Barenboim's Berlin conservatory.[2] He holds a senior and permanent professor post within the German system alongside the deanship.

Helgeson oversees a program for 90 undergraduates and approximately 20 post-graduates,[3] [4] bringing together musicians from the Middle East, associated with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.[5] [6] [7] The Barenboim-Said Akademie as such is a bachelors and masters degree granting university located in a 35 million dollar Frank Gehry designed building in Central Berlin, where student scholarships are supported by the German Foreign Office.[8] Faculty in the Dean's departments include pianist Andras Schiff, cellist Frans Helmerson, and composer Jörg Widmann.[9]

Helgeson studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, and holds two doctorates in humanities and music, from Princeton University and Royal Holloway University of London.[10] Previously, he taught at Columbia University, Princeton University, University of Nottingham, and was a fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge.[11]

He is the author of several monographs in French Renaissance studies, specialising in the relationship between music and literature in the period before 1600, including Harmonie Divine et Subjectivité Poétique chez Maurice Scève (Droz, 2001) and The Lying Mirror (Droz, 2012).[12]. He is also the author of an edited volume published by the University of Edinburgh on Ludwig Wittgenstein.[13] He is a member of the Société Française d'Etude du Seizième Siècle (French Society for the Study of the 16th-century). [14]

References

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  1. ^ "Barenboim-Said Akademie Website, Faculty Profile". Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  2. ^ Smale, Alison (9 December 2016). "The New York Times, "The Barenboim-Said Academy Opens in Berlin", 9 December 2016". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Barenboim-Said Facts and Figures" (PDF). Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  4. ^ "The Guardian, "Daniel Barenboim opens Berlin music academy for Middle East students", 8 December 2016". Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Barenboim-Said Akademie Website, Founding Vision". Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Qantara, "Music – facilitator of intercultural dialogue"". Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  7. ^ Hernández, Javier C. (31 October 2023). "New York Times, "Where Israelis, Palestinians and Iranians Must Listen to One Another", 31 October 2023". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  8. ^ "Tagesspiegel, "Musikhochschule in Berlin: Die Barenboim-Said-Akademie ist fast fertig", 08 July 2026". Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Faculty Profiles, Barenboim-Said Akademie". Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  10. ^ "RHUL PhD student Dr James S Helgeson appointed Professor in Berlin". Royal Holloway University of London. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  11. ^ "Artist Profile, Agosto Collective". Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  12. ^ "Droz, Geneva (Publisher Website)". Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  13. ^ "University of Edinburgh (Publisher Website)". Retrieved 7 July 2024.
  14. ^ "Société Française d'Etude du Seizième Siècle, List of Members". Retrieved 11 July 2024.