In this episode, the musician Elisabeth Wiklander speaks about how she understands meaning-making inside music. She shares her experiences of being an autistic musician, and how she negotiates a range of music-making activities ranging from small ensembles, orchestras and working with experiments in digital score.
About Elisabeth Wiklander
Prize-winning cellist Elisabeth Wiklander is a member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She also holds a teacher position at Ljungskile Folkhögskola in her native Sweden and has taught orchestral performance at conservatories in Amsterdam, London and New York. Elisabeth is autistic and a Neurodiversity Advocate, appointed Cultural Ambassador for the National Autistic Society in the UK. She recorded music for the award-winning film “The Reason I Jump” and is engaged in Neurodiversity projects worldwide as a speaker and advisor. Media appearances include a TEDx talk, The Daily Politics Show (BBC live) and several programmes and documentaries for Swedish Television.
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