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Ditte Elly Goard

Ditte Elly Goard (1992) is a British-Danish multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, visual artist and creative educator based in Newcastle, UK. She has a BA in Fine Art from Newcastle University (2012-15) and has attended courses in electronic music at Jyderup Højskole (2017), music production at Frontsession Byhøjskole (2018) and choir leading at Vestervig Kirkemusikskole (Århus). She is now taking a Masters in folk music performance at Newcastle University (2026-2027). 

Since 2010, Ditte has performed extensively across Europe under multiple artist guises, self-managed six musical releases and received funding from Arts Council UK, North East Funds for the Arts and the Alan Hull Award. Her main instruments include voice, piano, violin and electronics.

Throughout all of her work is a deep-rooted interest in how music can evolve ones sense of belonging and community. This exploration is also present in her work as creative educator, through which she leads workshops and courses in both art and music, as well as 1-1 teaching and mentoring. 







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In 2017, Ditte established Musikeum: an open band used to create story-specific albums about a particular geographical area. Through collaborating with different musicians from each specific place of interest, Ditte has created albums about Newcastle (UK) 'The North Sea Project', Århus (DK) 'Den Udødelige Sømand' and Cornwall (UK) 'Elowen'. 

Ditte has also produced and performed electronic music as the solo act Knight Knight since 2018. 

In 2020, Ditte was commissioned to take part in the Brighter Sound project 'Both Sides Now', together with Caitlin Laing-McEvoy. This long-distance collaboration resulted in the EP 'Can You Hear Me' and accompanying graphic novel under the name Libersea. 

Between 2022-2025, Ditte ran a monthly folk music workshop (Folk i Flok) at Sager der Samler in Århus, which was open to all instruments and abilities and focused on learning songs and tunes from across Europe by ear. During the same period, she also worked at FOF Århus evening school teaching piano, solo-singing and choir. 

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