Pejman Hadadi - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Pejman Hadadi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble

An internationally renowned percussionist, Pejman Hadadi is a proficient player of tombak and daf, the two drums of Iranian classical and folk musics. For the past thirty years, he has been teaching traditional styles of tombak playing and the theory of Persian rhythmic cycles to students in the US, Europe, and Iran. He received the prestigious Durfee Foundation Master Musician Award twice for dissemination and propagation of Persian music in the US. Since 1999, Pejman has composed a large body of music for dance, which he has performed extensively in international festivals with renowned Iranian master musicians, dancers and choreographers.

https://www.pejmanhadadi.com

Behzad Nadimi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
John Lee
Manager, Ethnomusicology & Musicology Departments
Robert F. Reigle
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology (Musical Cultures of the World: Europe and the Americas)
Miles Shrewsbery
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Music of India Ensemble
Hermann Hudde
Lecturer - Music of Latin America
Joko Sutrisno
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Java Ensemble
Supeena Adler
Adjunct Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology, World Music Instrument Curator and Conservator, Director of Music of Thailand Ensemble;
Janice Mautner Markham
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Klezmer Music Ensemble
Anna Morcom
Mohindar Brar Sambhi Professor of Indian Music, Professor - Ethnomusicology
Steven Loza
Professor - Global Jazz Studies, Ethnomusicology, Director of the UCLA Center for Latino Arts
Timothy D. Taylor
Professor - Ethnomusicology (Popular Musics, World Music, Cultural Theory)
Roger Savage
Professor - Ethnomusicology (Systematic Ethnomusicology)
Abhiman Kaushal
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of India Ensemble
David Bragger
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Jesús Guzmán
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Münir Beken
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Cheryl L. Keyes
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I Nyoman Wenten
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Rahul Neuman
Continuing Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of India Ensemble
Mark Kligman
Mickey Katz Professor of Jewish Music and Professor - Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Humanities, Director of Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Gamin Kang
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Korea Ensemble
Helen Rees
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology, Director of World Music Center (Music of China, Intangible Cultural Heritage in East Asia)
Francis Kofi Akotuah
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music and Dance of Ghana Ensemble
Chi Li
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of China Ensemble
Armen Adamian
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Marc T. Gaspard Bolin
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Diane White-Clayton
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of African American Music Ensemble
Soheil Nadimi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Maureen Russell
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology (Audiovisual Archiving), Archivist of the Ethnomusicology Archive
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology (Folk and Classical Music of South Asia; Bollywood)

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