Melissa Bilal
Promise Professor in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture and Director of Armenian Music Program, Assistant Professor in Music Performance, Education & Composition
Melissa Bilal is a sociocultural anthropologist and historian specializing in music and performance studies, gender and sexuality studies, and memory studies. Her ethnographic research explores the role of music in the transmission of Armenian memory in Turkey, while her archival research is focused on the musical and intellectual history of Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire and early republican Turkey. Her most recent book manuscript is the co-authored volume Feminism in Armenian: An Interpretive Anthology (forthcoming 2025) which unearths the lives and works of twelve Armenian feminist writer-activists in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman contexts. Bilal is currently working on a biography of pianist and composer Koharik Gazarossian (1907-1967).
Ph.D. Music (Ethnomusicology), University of Chicago; M.A. Sociology, Boğaziçi University; B.A. Sociology, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.
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Ian Krouse
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Michael Dean
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Chris Hanulik
Adjunct Professor - String Bass Performance; Principal Bass LA Phil
Christoph Bull
Adjunct Professor - Organ Performance
Rakefet Hak
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Juliana Gondek
Distinguished Professor - Voice Performance
Lily Chen-Hafteck
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Varty Manouelian
Continuing Lecturer - Violin Performance, Violin LA Philharmonic
Dante De Silva
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Camilo Cedeno
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Vladimir Chernov
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Justin McManus
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Jonathan Beard
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Gloria Cheng
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Neal Stulberg
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Movses Pogossian
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David Kaplan
Inaugural Shapiro Family Professor in Piano Performance, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
Che-Yen Chen
Professor - Viola Performance
Noel Cano Hearn
Lecturer - Alexander Technique and Music Education
Noah Meites
Continuing Lecturer - Music Theory
Jan Berry Baker
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Lou Anne Neill
Continuing Lecturer - Harp Performance, Harp LA Philharmonic
Cheryl Lin Fielding
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Diction and Vocal Coaching
Lindsey Beardsley
Manager - Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
Dwayne Milburn
Continuing Lecturer - Conducting and Composition
Andrew Ordonez
Events Manager - Department of Music Performance, Education & Composition
Brendan McBrien
Lecturer - Music Education
James Lent
Continuing Lecturer - Collaborative Piano
Mircea Gogoncea
Lecturer - Guitar
Hitomi Oba
Continuing Lecturer and Director of Contemporary Jazz Ensemble
Shahab Paranj
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Jonathan Davis
Senior Continuing Lecturer - Oboe Performance
Iris Malkin
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Wendy Richman
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Aubrey Foard
Continuing Lecturer - Tuba Performance
Inna Faliks
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Wendy Caldwell
Continuing Lecturer - Vocal Coaching
Lucy Yates
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Ji Young An
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Elisabeth Le Guin
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William Kinderman
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Peter Golub
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John Steinmetz
Continuing Lecturer - Bassoon Performance
James Darrah
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Regina Carter-Garnett
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Herbie Hancock
Adjunct Professor
James Bass
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Richard Danielpour
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Nick DePinna
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Gregory Goodall
Continuing Lecturer - Percussion Performance
James Miller
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Amy Sanchez
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Joshua Ranz
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Catherine Gregory
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