Pushpa Palanchoke
- Doctoral Student, MuTri Doctoral School, Sibelius Academy
Visitor, MuTri Doctoral School, Sibelius Academy - pushpa.palanchoke@uniarts.fi
Publications on ORCID website
Introduction
Pushpa is an Applied Ethnomusicologist and Music Educator from Nepal. She is currently a doctoral researcher at Sibelius Academy, Helsinki. She is a recipient of Nepal Chatra Vidya Padak and Nepal Vidhya Bhusan (Ga) & (Kha), three highly prestigious national awards in the field of education. She is an academician with interests in applied ethnomusicology, gender, rituals, heritage, music education, contextualization of traditional music, and sustainability of and through them. She is also an artist whose stage performance is a blend of vocal music, poetry and storytelling. She is the mind and heart behind the program Folk Lok. Folk Lok is a community-based arts program focused on the revitalization of indigenous music practices. Between 2020-2023, Folk Lok was supported by the U. S. Embassy’s Book Bus and managed by Satori Centre for the Arts.