With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself

2020: Dichtbij met Muziek 
​(Engl. Music Near You)

Dichtbij met Muziek is a reserch project into facilitating participatory music practices with vulnerable elderly people with dementia who are living at home. The objective of the project is to find ways to support human dignity through music-making. The explored approaches include online sessions as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and physical group sessions when possible.


​2019-2023: Professional Excellence in Meaningful Music in Healthcare - ProMiMiC

Professional Excellence in Meaningful Music in Healthcare, (ProMiMiC) (2019-2023) is a research project aiming to explore interprofessional learning processes and collaboration between musicians and nurses, between musicians and music therapists, and the increase of compassionate skills of nurses within the live music practice Meaningful Music in Healthcare (MiMiC). ProMiMiC is led by the Research group Lifelong Learning in Music of Hanze University Groningen. Partners in the project are University Medical Center Groningen, Research group Nursing Diagnostics of Hanze University, Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, Haaglanden Medical Centre The Hague, University of Music & performing Arts Vienna, Allgemeines Krankenhaus Vienna, Royal College of Music / Centre of Performance Science London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital London, and Foundation Mimic Muziek. The project is co-financed through the RAAK-Pro programme of Regieorgaan SIA, part of the Dutch Research Council (NWO).


​2015-2017: Meaningful Music in Health Care (MiMiC) - research into an new practice for professional musicians

Krista has been involved in the development of the new participatory music practice MiMiC in surgical hospital wards of the University Medical Center Groningen as a member of the research group Lifelong Learning in Music. 

2017 - August
​Mänttä Music Festival

For the third time, Krista returns to Mänttä Music Festival to work within the community on interactive concerts and creative music workshops. 

2016 - August
Mänttä Music Festival ​

Krista returned to work at Mänttä Music Festival as a community pedagogue with elderly people, children and with people with different kinds of mental handicaps, as well as with asylum seekers in two refugee centers. 

2015 - August
NAIP- Introduction Course in The Hague

Krista participated in the international NAIP-Introduction Course for creative collaboration between the parter institutions on behalf of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Read more about the program network.

2015 - August
Improvise to Improve-course 

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Krista is part of the teaching faculty of the Nordic-Baltic Improvise to Improve-course at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences Helsinki, focusing on free-tonal improvisation sessions and concerts for children and elderly people in collaboration with students and teachers of the participating music colleges. See video of one of the performances.

2015 - August
Mänttä Music Festival 

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Krista is currently scheduled to work at Mänttä Music Festival as a community pedagogue with elderly people, children and with people with different kinds of mental handicaps. 

2015 - June
Intensive string ensemble project at FolkUniversity, Stockholm

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Krista led an intensive string ensemble project at FolkUniversity in Stockholm in June 2015 for a group of adult amateur musicians. The rehearsed repertoire was performed on June 18th in Stockholm. 

2012-2015
Creative music collaborations with Medis 5

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Krista has worked as a workshop leader at intensive creative collaborations with Medis5 cultural workers at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. 

2013
Between a rock and a hard place

Krista performed a series of concerts as a concert master in a contemporal short-opera production with the Cape Town Opera from South-Africa in May 2013 in Reaktorhallen in Stockholm.

2013
Professional Integration Project (PIP)

Krista's PIP-project was realized in Stockholm in March 2013. During the project (see video) she created an improvisatory music workshop for a group of Finnish speaking elderly people with dementia. The aim was to support the participant's multi-sensor skills, promote well-being and occupational ownership. Krista's master thesis focused on finding new ways to improve music sessions in elderly care and to encourage the participants to actively take part in the music making process and performance.

2012
Nordic Art-exhibition: Four Countries, One Concert

The Autumn Semester 2012 Krista studied at Prince Claus Conservatoire in Groningen, the Netherlands. During that time she collaborated in a multi-media  project between Prince Claus Conservatoire and Groninger Museum. She played in the NAIP Ensemble for the performance "Four Countries, One Concert" at the opening of Nordic Art-exhibition.

2012
Kom & Hör- chamber music festival

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Krista worked in the organization group of the annual Kom&Hör-chamber music festival at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.

Nordic Art - NAIP at the Groninger Museum from chrispauldaniels on Vimeo.

The results of a collaborative performance by myself, Guy Wood and students from the NAIP programme at the Prince Clause Conservatoire in the Netherlands commissioned by the Groninger Museum for the opening of their exhibition, Nordic Art 1880-1920, on the eighth of December, 2012.

Each section is made in response to the five Nordic countries and their respective artists featured in the exhibition:
00:00:00 Finland
00:07:45 Denmark
00:12:20 Sweden
00:17:35 Norway
00:23:20 Iceland

Performed by
Igor Demydczuk, Tanja Krivokapic, Lazaruss Ostos, Krista Pyykönen, Chara Riala, Damir Vlaskalic and Guy Wood.

Music leadership by Guy Wood.

Additional material by
Luca Brembilla and Árni Bergur Zoëga featuring Dísa Hreiðarsdóttir and Sveinn Enok Jóhannsson.

Paintings used courtesy of the Groninger museum (http://www.groningermuseum.nl)
All other images and footage shot by myself.

Thanks to Marc van Roon, Annet Niestijl, Jan-Gerd Krüger and Timon Abels.
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