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Organization / Workplace
Claremont United States
Occupation
Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music
About
Pianist and professor of music and humanities. Performed in eighteen countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. Have written articles about piano pedagogy and keyboard technique, issues in philosophies of music, jazz analysis of Billie Holiday's performance practice, ethnomusicological fieldwork with Peter Garcia of the San Juan Pueblo on ritual Tewa Indian chants and dances, popular music studies perspectives of mainland Chinese rock and roll and Hmong shamanic practices.
Recent highlights are an NEH Teaching Development Fellowship for 2012, "Bridging Cultures" and a 2008 Fulbright at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem in Budapest, Hungary; also sabbatical in