Rosie Taekema-Torfi, MA

Rosie Taekema-Torfi is a researcher at the Professorship Music in Context (Research Centre Arts & Society). Her work focuses on participatory music-making in Dutch asylum reception settings, with particular attention to asylum seeker centres (AZC’s) and other reception locations.

In her project "Muziek (mogelijk) maken in AZC’s", Rosie examines the practical and organisational conditions that shape how or whether music activities can be set up and sustained over time. She is especially interested in questions of accessibility and social justice, and in the professional and social dynamics that arise when musicians work as “outsiders” in specific communities – including trust-building, power dynamics, and the use of more bottom-up, participant-led approaches.

After completing a Bachelor of Music at the Prins Claus Conservatorium (2018), Rosie graduated cum laude from the MA Arts, Policy and Cultural Entrepreneurship at the University of Groningen (2020).