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Presentations

“Tradition Transformed: Devotional Music in a Western Context”
Presented at the India and the Performing Arts Conference, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

"The evolution of sarod performance practice in the 20th century, with examples from historic recordings and live demonstration"
Guest lecture, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London.

"Tradition Transformed: Devotional Music in an American Context"
Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Estes Park, Colorado

"Time, Performance and Ideology: Tradition and Transformation in North Indian Classical Music"
Presented to the graduate students forum, School of Music, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

"The Cutting Edge of Tradition: Indian Classical Music and the Internet"
Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Detroit.

"Time, Performance and Ideology in North Indian Classical Music"
Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Toronto.

"The All-India Music Conferences of 1916-1925: Re-envisioning the North Indian Classical Music Landscape"
Presented at the "Performers, Patrons and Audiences" conference held by the International Institute of Asian Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

"Time. Performance and Ideology in North Indian Classical Music"
Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Southern California Chapter, University of San Diego.

"Colonialism, Ideology and the Modernization of North Indian Classical Instrumental Music"
Guest lecture, Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara.

"The All-India Music Conferences of 1916-1925: The Re-Vision of the of North Indian Classical Music Landscape"
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society, Kansas City.

"Traditions in Transition: Sarod and Sitar Performance in the Early Twentieth Century"
Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Austin.

"The All-India Music Conferences of 1916-1925: Cultural Transformation and Colonial Ideology"
Guest lecture, Department of History, Calcutta University.

"The All-India Music Conferences of 1916-1925: Re-Visioning the Landscape of North Indian Classical Music"
Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Pittsburgh.

"A Brief Intercultural History of the Sarod"
Presented at the conference "Indian Music and the West" sponsored by The Sangeet Research Academy, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Bombay, India.

"Researching the Evolution of a Musical Instrument in Modern India"
Presented at the meeting of the European Seminar on Ethnomusicology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

"The Changing Sarod: Tracing the Historical Development of an Instrument in Modern India."
Presented at the annual meeting of the Southern and Northern California chapters of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

"The Tanpura—A Spectrographic Analysis of the Jawari Phenomenon."
Presented at the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, Tokyo, Japan.

"Toward a New Description of Raga."
Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Chicago.

"Toward a New Description of Raga."
Presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University.

II. North Indian Classical Music:
Instruction and Performance Activities

Training

Ali Akbar College of Music,
San Rafael, California

Vadya Bid*

Full-time study, four 9-week sessions per year.
Studies with Maestro Ali Akbar Khan included instrumental music on sarod and violin, vocal music, including both dhrupad and khyal styles, and tala.

Private instruction with Maestro Ali Akbar Khan and class attendance on a periodic basis.

American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellowship for Sarod performance

Teaching - Hindustani Classical Music

2007 - 2008
2003 - 2004

Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Department of Music
Director — Hindustani Music Ensemble

California Institute of the Arts
School of Music
Adjunct Faculty
Indian Music, World Music Program
- Indian Instrumental Techniques and Improvisation for Western Instruments
- Co-Director: Indian Music Ensemble
- Theory and composition in North Indian classical music for instrumental and vocal students.

University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Music
Director: Indian Music Ensemble
- Instruction in instrumental music (sitar and sarod), vocal music, tala, and tabla. Ensemble and individual lessons. Public performances by ensemble groups.

Ali Akbar College of Music, Basel, Switzerland
Teaching assistant to Maestro Ali Akbar Khan
- North Indian classical instrumental and vocal music

Center for World Music, Payangan, Bali, Indonesia
Faculty
Seminar: Music of India

Workshops

2000

Indian Theory and Improvisation for Jazz Musicians
Prague Jazz Society Summer Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

Introduction to North Indian classical music for college music teachers
- College Music Society
- San Diego State University

Residency: Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View, CA.
- Introduction to Indian classical music for 4^th, 5^th and 6^th grade students in the Mountain View, CA school system — a series of twelve school assemblies and a family concert.