Rosie Taekema-Torfi, MA

Rosie Taekema-Torfi is a member of the professorship Music in Context. She is currently conducting focused case studies within the research project Sound Soils and her own project Making Music (Happen) in Asylum Seeker Centres. She is also involved in the Can you hear us? project for the MiMiC Foundation.  

Within Sound Soils, Rosie investigates the professional field and future opportunities for musicians in rural areas in the north of the Netherlands. In Making music in the meantime, she focuses on research into the accessibility and sustainability of music activities in asylum seeker centres in the Netherlands.  

In both projects of professorship Music in Context, Rosie pays particular attention to the practical aspects of setting up and maintaining collaborative projects with specific communities. She also studies the professional and social dynamics that arise when musicians enter a community as outsiders.  

After completing her Bachelor of Music at the Prince Claus Conservatorium in 2018, Rosie graduated cum laude in 2020 from the master’s programme Arts, Policy and Cultural Entrepreneurship at the University of Groningen.