Robert F. Reigle
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology (Musical Cultures of the World: Europe and the Americas)

Ethnomusicologist and saxophonist Robert F. Reigle established the music bachelor’s program at the University of Papua New Guinea and created the first ethnomusicology doctoral program in Turkey, at Istanbul Technical University, where he taught from 2002-2017.  Several of Dr. Reigle’s students have gone on to distinguished careers in Turkey, Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom, and the United States.  He initiated the world’s first interdisciplinary music-timbre conference and the second Papua New Guinea Music Conference, publishing their proceedings.  He has published articles on Kurdish recordings, octave perception, ethnomusicological philosophy, and composers John Sheppard and Harley Gaber.  Together with theorist and composer Jeremy Woodruff, he developed a master’s level World Music Theory course.

Dr. Reigle studied musics in the United States, Papua New Guinea, Korea, India, and Turkey.  In addition to studying jazz at Berklee College of Music, he participated in two workshops given by Kyoto Prize laureate Cecil Taylor.  After living in a Papua New Guinean village for three years, he wrote the core of his dissertation in his fieldwork language in order to enable the village to read it, then translated it into English.

Some of Robert’s concepts have been adopted by other scholars.  “Eurogenetic” is used especially in Music Information Retrieval, “majority musics” by percussionist Gustavo Aguilar, “radical ascent” by composer Dirk Stromberg, and “spectral world musics” by several authors.

Robert established improvisation ensembles in Lincoln, New York, Los Angeles, and Istanbul, sometimes collaborating with dancers and visual artists.  He led tribute concerts to Albert Ayler in Seattle, and with Steven Koenig, at St. Peter’s Church in New York.

As saxophonist, he was a member of the improvising group Islak Köpek (Wet Dog), and has premiered compositions by Christian Asplund, Ana-Maria Avram, Iancu Dumitrescu, Giacinto Scelsi (New York premiere), and Onur Türkmen. Estonian composer Toivo Tulev’s award-winning composition Black Mirror was written for improvising trio Hoca Nasreddin (Nikolai Galen, Serkan Şener, and Reigle) with symphony orchestra.  Robert’s album, Solo Saxophone, earned praise from John Litweiler in a Down Beat review.

Ph.D. Ethnomusicology, University of California, Los Angeles; M.A. Music Composition, Queens College, City University of New York; Teaching Certificate (Music), University of Nebraska, Lincoln; B.S. Business Administration, University of North Dakota.

John Lee
Manager, Ethnomusicology & Musicology Departments
Mark Kligman
Mickey Katz Chair of Jewish Music and Professor - Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Humanities, Director of Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Chi Li
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of China Ensemble
Pejman Hadadi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Marc T. Gaspard Bolin
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology (History of Jazz)
Guangming Li
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Chinese Instrumental Music
Soheil Nadimi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Supeena Adler
Adjunct Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology, World Music Instrument Curator and Conservator, Director of Music of Thailand Ensemble;
Anna Morcom
Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, Professor - Ethnomusicology
Miles Shrewsbery
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Music of India Ensemble
Francis Kofi Akotuah
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music and Dance of Ghana Ensemble
Mohsen Mohammadi
Director of Indo-Persian Music
Maureen Russell
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology (Audiovisual Archiving), Archivist of the Ethnomusicology Archive
Helen Rees
Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of World Music Center (Music of China, Intangible Cultural Heritage in East Asia)
Behzad Nadimi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Janice Mautner Markham
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Klezmer Music Ensemble
Abhiman Kaushal
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of India Ensemble
Roger Savage
Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology
Cheryl L. Keyes
Professor - Global Jazz Studies and Ethnomusicology (Contemporary Jazz, Hip Hop)
Rahul Neuman
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of India Ensemble
I Nyoman Wenten
Adjunct Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Bali Ensemble
Joko Sutrisno
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Java Ensemble
Donna Armstrong
Assistant to the Chair - Ethnomusicology
David Bragger
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Old-Time String Band Ensemble
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology (Folk and Classical Music of South Asia; Bollywood)
Diane White-Clayton
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Gamin Kang
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Timothy D. Taylor
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Steven Loza
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Jesús Guzmán
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Münir Beken
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Armen Adamian
Instructor of Armenian Woodwinds; Ph.D. Student in Ethnomusicology

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