RUTH WILHELMINE MEYER is a distinctive vocal artist and voice teacher.  Her vocal richness and a vocal range of more than 6 octaves make her in demand for concerts, stage productions and film music all over the world. She has a solid knowledge of voice use and different ways of producing sound. 

She collaborates with musicians and performing artists from a number of countries and within different musical genres. She has released a number of CDs, the latest of which was released in the fall of 2018 and was a collaboration with the winner of the Nordic Council Music Prize 2018: Nils Henrik Asheim. Ruth W. Meyer has a master's degree in music education from the Grieg Academy and two years of further education from the Mozarteum, Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Salzburg. She is a lecturer in singing at the Norwegian Theatre Academy, teaches regularly at the Ole Bull Academy and is a sought-after lecturer in many countries. She received the EDVARD Prize 2019 for her compositions for the project KLANGBIOTOPER.

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See more at www.wilhelmine.no
 

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PER JOHAN ISDAHL 

is a specialist in psychology and has an education from the Norwegian Character Analysis Association, the Institute for Psychotherapy and specialization in autism treatment with Eric Schopler in North Carolina. He has participated in the development and adaptation of psychotherapy as part of psychiatric hospitals' services to the population with inspiration from the professional profile at the Wiliam Alason White Institute in New York. He has been employed at Emma Hjorts Hjem, Bleiker behandlingshjem, Oslo Hospital, Gaustad Hospital, the Norwegian State Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Oslo University Hospital Ullevål. He was one of the initiators of the establishment of the Regional Department for Eating Disorders (Rasp) and its first head. Isdahl has participated in several collaborative mental health projects in the People's Republic of China. The clinical areas Isdahl has special expertise in are autism and developmental disabilities, eating disorders, physical self-harm, trauma forms after abuse and existential disorders in men across the life cycle and non-verbal communication.

Isdahl has participated in several projects for competence-based reorganization in mental health care in the face of primary care tasks. He holds a degree in health and social planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an intermediate degree in criminology from the University of Oslo.

His psychotherapeutic orientation is characterized by aesthetic-based forms of communication and the research culture of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. He is a member of the IAP and the Norwegian Association for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. Isdahl has researched the history of psychiatry. He has published
 

• "The history of a moment. Herman Major at Oslo Hospital (1988),

• The grip on the brain. From the history of lobotomy (1993),

• Life without the right to life. The killing of psychiatric patients during World War II (2009),

• The sudden presence of the past. To the memory and times of Charles Blondel (2014/2018 (In press))

• Finn Skårderud, Per Johan Isdahl: Kroppstanker. Body, gender, history of ideas (1998)

• Per Johan Isdahl: Måltidsforstyrrelser. A psychotherapist's experiences. (2017) This book provides insight into the understanding of integration that Isdahl strives for. 

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Isdahl has contributed to the anthologies: 

• Psychological general services. Psychological work in health centers, schools and social services (Knoph, Bogen, Austlid, Isdahl) (1983)

• Per Johan Isdahl: In usus tempore. When decisions are made about persons with reduced autonomous resources. In Omsorg nr. 3, 1993.