Biography

Musicologist and sociologist Irina Kirchberg is a visiting professor at the University of Montreal where she co-directs the DESS in music mediation. She has published several collective works such as Faire l’art. Analyser les processus de création artistique (2014), Bourdieu et la musique (2019), edited the first scientific journal issue dedicated to music mediation (RMOICRM, 2020) and co-edits volume 11 of the journal Transposition. Musique et sciences sociales devoted to “Musical socialisations”. She is a co-researcher in the Étude Partenariale sur la Médiation de la Musique (EPMM) and in the Observatoire des Médiations Culturelles (OMEC). Irina Kirchberg co-founded the NPO Médiatrices et Médiateurs de la Musique du Québec (MeMuQ).