Traditional fiddler, composer and entrepreneur based in the Danish highlands in Central Jutland. Loving my garden and letting all things take time!

Hi there and welcome!

My name is Maja, and I have an unstoppable need to create - both writing new music, promoting traditional music from Denmark and the Nordic countries, organising events, making collaborations, finding inspiration in everything and anything that happens around me.

Anything that has to do with traditional culture - I'm, in! I can't help being passionate about my own culture, and I try to say to everyone I meet: Be proud of your own culture! No culture is worth less than others, they are all equally beautiful and unique.

Currently I'm a student at The National Academy of Music in Esbjerg, as a advanced post graduate in Contemporary Creative Artist, which means that I am being trained in composing, playing my instrument and being a creative entrepreneur - and everything in between!

Follow my projects in the "Projects & Progress" section.

Sometimes it's fun just to investigate what's behind all of it. Why do certain melodies I write have a certain vibe? How can I give my audience another kind of experience of my music? Wow did specific happenings in history affect the way we used traditional music in the 19th century? I can't promise you the answers to those questions, but I can promise you small pieces of research on things that occupy my mind - sometimes in connection with my projects, sometimes there's no connection at all...! It's all about being a music nerd, and it's all good!

Keep up with my (sometimes annoying!) questions in the "Artistic Research" section.

in I work in different ways in different stages of my projects. Sometimes with no goal, sometimes with a very clear goal. But by now, I've picked up different ways to work with my ideas so they become the best they can be. How I make sense of my notes can sometimes be a mystery, but I'm working on it... And not all my ideas become something "here and now" (the result of a brain that is constantly overloaded with ideas), so some of them are stored for later. How do I do all that?

My tips and tricks for working as a creative in the "My Creative Mind" section.

Being a creative person as a profession takes its toll on the mind sometimes, so I also am very attentive to what makes me tick. When I need breaks, when it's time to work and when it's time to stop. Mindfulness, you might call it. I call it finding a personal balance ;-)

I also love making things grow - my garden and my plants are the things that can really make me relax.

Read stories from my garden and other types of breaks and how I balance creative work and ordinary life in my "Take a Break" section.

All old things and traditions are beautiful, valuable and relevant to all people, no matter the time and place. But it's "today" now, so let's make it all accessible and useful for people like us, right?

I hope you enjoy following my projects!

~* Maja * ~