Netta Hibsher

Om Netta Hibsher

Netta Huebscher (b. 1986) is a musician and musicologist. She received her PhD in 2022 from the University of Gothenburg with a dissertation titled "Invoking the modal nymph: The emergence and dissemination of the concept of modality in Swedish folk music". She has created and taught courses in music history, music theory, harmony and counterpoint, methods in musicology, and academic writing at GU; given guest lectures at Linnaeus University; and supervised theses in musicology and music education at both GU and the Academy for Music and Drama in Gothenburg. Since 2023 she has been teaching music theory, ear training, recorders and composition at the pre-college programme at Lilla Akademien in Stockholm. She currently works as research coordinator and assistant at the RJ-funded research programme Change is Key!. Among her research interests are history and criticism of music theory, historical and model-based composition, folk and traditional music, feminist and psychoanalytical perspectives on musical analysis, and musical borrowing. Since 2023 she has been writing and presenting on K-pop.

Netta studied recorders under Leora Vinick and Claire Michon, organ under Alexander Gorin, and composition under Aviya Kopelman. She is a founding member of early music ensemble Camera XV (2010-2016). She writes arrangements and original music for Lynx Ensemble, with whom she has released the album Baroque Tales (Caprice 2020). In her free time, she likes composing organ preludes based on popular songs.