Jacqueline von Arb, Director

Jacqueline von Arb, Director

Contact

Email: jva@recordedsound.no
Phone:(+47) 51 83 40 60

Education and experience

Jacqueline von Arb (b.1964) is the Director of the Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound (NIRS), where she has worked since 1989.

She previously headed and developed the International Chamber Music Festival in Stavanger, Norway, for 2 years (1993-94), with an additional period as Interim Director (1996). In 2011 Jacqueline von Arb was elected President of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives for 2011-2014, after serving as Vice President (2005-2011), Assistant Coordinator (2003-06) and Depute Coordinator (2004) of the IASA Nordic Branch. As well as member of the organizing committee for the joint IAML-IASA Congress in Oslo (2004), the IASA Conference in Mexico (2006) and the IASA Conference in Riga, Latvia (2007), coordinator of the IASA conference Philadelphia, USA (2010), Organizing Committee for Frankfurt conference in 2011. She obtained to lead and develop the organizational structure at the International Chamber Music Festival in Stavanger (1993-1994), with an additional term as interim CEO (1996). She was also general manager of MemNor AS, Audio Archiving Services, 2006-2010.

In 2007, NIRS is hosted the Norwegian Sound Archive Conference. Jacqueline von Arb continues as chair of the Organizing Committee for the Norwegian Sound Archive Conference 2009 in Trondheim and 2011 in Bergen. The Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound was also one of 7 partners in the 3-year European project "Memories" (2006-09), which designed an audio semantic indexation system allowing information retrieval for better access to archival sound content. Jacqueline von Arb was the partner representative and lead one of the project's Work Packages.

Jacqueline von Arb's educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts (French, German, Spanish) from Central University of Iowa, USA, and the University of Vienna, Austria, the equivalent of a Bachelor of Music (Instrumental Pedagogy, specializing in Piano, Aural Training and Music Theory) from the Music Conservatory of Northern Norway, as well as graduate studies in Organizational Theory, Communication, Leadership/Organizational Change, and Pedagogic Leadership at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She continued audiovisual archiving studies online and obtained a Graduate Certificate in Audiovisual Archiving from Charles Sturt University, Australia in 2009.

She grew up in many countries and has thusly amassed fluency in seven languages. Jacqueline von Arb now lives and works in Norway, but has retained her Swiss citizenship. In her spare time, she is an avid gardener, mountaineer, telemark-skier and aikido-practitioner.

Offices

Organisation	Office	Term
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)	President	2011-14
Norwegian Sound Archive Conference 2011. Organizing Committee	Chair, Secretary and Treasurer	Bergen 2011
AMIA-IASA International Conference	Convenor IASA	Philadelphia 2010
Reference Group for the building of the new Stavanger Concert Hall	Member	2007 -
Regional House of Archives in the University Area. Reference Group & User Group	Member	2006 -
Coordinating Committee for the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (27th October)	IASA Representative
Music House Foundation	Board member	2004-
Stavanger JuShinkan Aikido	Board member	2008 -

Past offices

Organisation	Office	Term
Norwegian Sound Archive Conference. Organizing Committee	Member	New Delhi, India 2012
Norwegian Sound Archive Conference. Organizing Committee	Chair	Bergen 2011
Norwegian Sound Archive Conference. Organizing Committee	Chair	Frankfurt, Germany 2011
Norwegian Sound Archive Conference. Organizing Committee	Chair	Philadelphia, USA 2010
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)	Vice President	2005 - 2011 , second term
Norwegian Sound Archive Conference. Organizing Committee	Chair	2007, 2009
IASA-BAAC Conference. Organizing Committee	Member	Riga, Latvia 2007
IASA Conference. Organizing Committee	Member	Mexico 2006
Museumsdagen i Vågen	Interim Board member	2005 - 2006
IAML-IASA Congress. Organisasjonskomiteen	Medlem	Oslo 2004
IASA Nordic Branch	Assistant Coordinator	2003 - 2006
IASA Nordic Branch	Deputy Coordinator	2004
Stavanger International Jazz Festival. Organizing Committee	Chair
International Chamber Music Festival. Organizing Committee	Chair	1996