Background and experience
Randi Margrethe Eidsaa is a professor of music pedagogy at the University of Agder. She has worked as a primary school teacher in Music, English Language and Special Education, and was employed at the University of Agder in 1994, and got a full-time lecturer position in 1997. She is educated as a Music Teacher, and also studied English language and literature at the University of Oslo, and she was later educated in Special Education 60 ECTS points. She holds a PhD in Music Pedagogy from the Danish University School of Education in Copenhagen.
Areas of responsibility
Randi Margrethe Eidsaa is involved in teaching and research related to music performance studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts. She has also been involved in music teacher education and courses in music pedagogy and music didactics. In recent years, Randi Margrethe Eidsaa has been representing the Department of Classical Music and Music Education in national and international partnership projects. She has conducted course module projects in collaboration with local artistic performers and institutions such as local cultural schools, Vest-Agder Museet, Kunstsilo, Allegro Ballet Studio and Dansebanken Ung.
Teaching
Randi Margrethe Eidsaa teaches musicology, music history, concert production and entrepreneurship in the Department of Classical Music and Music Education. She also teaches music pedagogy in teacher education and the PhD-course Art in Context, and supervises masterstudents and bachelor students.
Research
Eidsaa has published articles within music studies in higher education, music communication in pedagogical and societal perspectives, interdisciplinary artistic performances, and music and art as responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her research is inspired by the research groups Art and Conflict and Reconfiguring Historical Musical Crafts Education. She was a representative for the department in the the Erasmus+ project REACT Rethinking Music Performance in Higher Education (2020 - 2023) and is now involved in Erasmus+Global Mobility collaborations with Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in Palestine (2025 ongoing) and Academy of Music in Sarajevo (2025 and ongoing).
In 2024, Randi Margrethe Eidsaa supervised the Forthem Alliance Project Mousiké & Integration/Orangë Blossöm Mëmöriës, a student-driven development project funded by the UiA Forthem Alliance Lab Art and Aesthetics in Contemporary Society. She is frequently involved in research projects that include the students
She has been the leader of artistic development projects with students and outside campus performers from various fields of art and has initiated several small-scale events as arenas for students' collaborative and interdisciplinary practices.
Academic interests
Research and methodological strategies within performing music education
Artistic expressions as a response to collective crises
Intercultural and dialogue-oriented interaction practices
Interdisciplinary work processes and artistic performance models
Art and Sport: Equestrian sport and Artistic Performance